[samjjones]

[Jul-22-17] Added:

 

Men At Work – It’s A Mistake

 

Excellent! Thanks for finishing and sharing this one!

[Dash Riprock]

[Jul-28-17] Added:

 

Strawbs – Round and Round

 

Strawbs (or The Strawbs) are an English rock band founded in 1964. Although the band started out as a bluegrass group they eventually moved on to other styles such as folk rock, progressive rock, and (briefly) glam rock.

After the break up of the Bursting line-up, Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert recruited a new band around them, bringing in Rod Coombes from Stealers’ Wheel and Chas Cronk from sessions work. John Hawken after leaving Renaissance had played with a number of bands including Spooky Tooth, Vinegar Joe, and Third World War.

Released in the UK in early 1974, shortly after its release in North America, “Hero and Heroine” was a blueprint for things to come – bleak, harsh lyrics reflecting Cousins current state of mind, increasingly electronic/progressive instrumentation and a concentration on the North American/Canadian market, where it sold hugely well, rather than the UK homeland.

They toured with Supertramp in their “Crime of the Century” tour, doing their own “Hero and Heroine” tour, which drew musical similarities and themes.

[Dash Riprock]

[Aug-12-17] Added:

 

Jon & Vangelis – The Friends of Mr. Cairo

[Dash Riprock]

[Aug-16-17] Added:

 

The Eagles – New Kid In Town

Guitar/Drums by Oscarj08.

Original Vox by Spindoctor.

[MrPrezident]

Thanks Dash (and team), such a great song and a fun chart.

Keeping the content Canadian since 2017!

SomeOldGuys: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/someoldguys
MrPrezident: https://db.c3universe.com/songs/all/__user/MrPrezident

[samjjones]

Very cool.

Still can’t believe that Glenn Frey is gone.

[Spindoctor]

Good stuff Dash, Thanks for sharing

 

Look forward to belting this out with pitched vocals

 

Removed my version from the DB

[freakshow]

Spindoctor Thank you for all the customs WoW you can put the customs out

Love the taste in music u have and O thanks for the other who have helped out too

[Spindoctor]

Spindoctor Thank you for all the customs WoW you can put the customs out

Love the taste in music u have and O thanks for the other who have helped out too

Thanks for the compliment, yes I did have a small part in this but the real credit should go to Dash & to Oscarj08 for their work in making this.

[Dash Riprock]

[Aug-21-17] Added:

 

Deep Purple – Never Before

Drums/Guitar by Oscarj08

Original Conversion by Sideshow

 

[Sideshow]

Machine Head is now complete. Thank you Dash!

[Dash Riprock]

Machine Head is now complete. Thank you Dash!

This is true. Though Pictures of Home and Lazy are missing Pro Keys.

 

Hhhmmm…

 

I’ve got a decent MIDI for Lazy, but the tempo map during the intro is all over the place. It would be next to impossible to incorporate the former with the later without major surgery. A new map may prove to be easier.

 

Probably just as well. Trying to fit those keys (six octaves w/gliss, four w/o) into two octaves would be a considerable challenge, and likely not do them justice.

[Dash Riprock]

[Aug-28-17] Added:

 

Peter Gabriel – A Wonderful Day in a One-Way World

Guitar/Bass/Pro Keys by nsw1-6

Drums revised by nsw1-6

Added Keys

Revised Vocals

[Dash Riprock]

Peter Gabriel’s first four solo albums all shared the same name. This is not a problem at the moment, but eventually, it will be. In order to accommodate future releases, I’ve adopted the popular nomenclature for these albums.

1. Peter Gabriel (Cars)
2. Peter Gabriel (Scratch)
3. Peter Gabriel (Melt)
4. Peter Gabriel (Security)

Metadata Updated:

 

Peter Gabriel – Moribund the Burgermeister

Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill

 

Changed album name from Peter Gabriel I to Peter Gabriel (Car).

[Dash Riprock]

28. December 3rd, 2PM EST-20:00 CET

Steely Dan Single

by Dash Riprock

Steely Dan – Haitian Divorce

You can go to Vegas for a quickie marriage, but what do you do if you want a quickie divorce? In the early ’70s, Haiti made it easy, allowing foreigners to divorce with hardly any restriction; the big sell was that only one member of the married party had to be present and request it.

For Haiti, this was a tourism ploy, as travel agents would send Americans looking for a quick and easy divorce to the island, where they would often spend some time on a resort. In many cases, these divorces were requested so that the person could immediately get remarried – a service Haiti also provided. So it was not uncommon for a married man to show up in Haiti with his mistress, get a divorce, and marry the new girl all in the course of a weekend.

Donald Fagan talked about the Haitian Divorce in a 1976 interview with Sounds. Said Fagen: “It’s a fierce and terrible ritual. I’ll tell you that. You wouldn’t want your sister to have a Haitian divorce, believe me. It was the quick divorce, without too much red tape. If you can say ‘incompatibility of character’ in french, you’re as good as gold. But we added a few elements to the ceremony itself.”

In this song, it’s the woman who goes to Haiti for her divorce. She has some fun while she is there, and presumably hooks up with a local – their sex scene is implied in cinematic terms in the lines:

Now we dolly back

Now we fade to black

Steely Dan used a talkbox on this track, which is the same processor Black Sabbath used on “Iron Man” to create the robotic sounds. In “Haitian Divorce,” hired hand Dean Parks played the guitar, Walter Becker processed it though a talkbox to his specifications.

The Royal Scam was released in May 1976. The album sold well in the U.S.A. though without the strength of a hit single. “Haitian Divorce” (Top 20) drove sales in the UK, becoming Steely Dan’s first major hit in that country.

Do you like this release? Awesome! If would have downloaded this release even if it was paid DLC, please donate 90 cent per song to the Make-A-Wish foundation please, we’ll be forever grateful!

Song count so far: 112

The next author up at December 3rd, 10PM EST-04:00 CET is GhostByob.

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