One of my colleagues who's a 'dance' DJ (baseball cap turned backwards—you get the picture) and who dislikes traditional music was doing down the mandolin today. He has a Captain Corelli type idea of it.
I reminded him that the mandolin had featured in many pop hits over the years but I could only think of two off the top of my head: 'Maggie May' by Rod Stewart and 'Losing My Religion' by REM.
Desmond Tutu & Lady Gaga rowed across the Irish Sea in a leaky boat this Christmas to avoid having to throw pots and whistle Max Bygraves favourites on the Hollyhead ferry...
OK it’s a cover of the Snoop Dogg song (by The Gourds), but what a cover. Also goes to show that technical virtuosity gets trumped by enthusiasm nearly every dangitty time.
tell this 'dance' DJ to stop wasting your time, his taste in music is so bad that there is little point in trying to get him to understand what a mandolin is.
Thanks everyone for a great listing. I'll go back to battle well armed—when the office is quiet again.
Yes, hussar, I do work in the public service, but that was just an off day—I promise!
palethinboy, I think you may be right. He claims he's involved in the more 'serious' dance music—not the stuff in the charts. To be fair, he's also in a band that plays the stuff, although he doesn't actually 'play'—he does the spinning the turntables bit, presumably with his baseball cap reversed. I'm sounding very ancient here!
He's also interested in 'world music' and has lots of downloaded recordings. But here's the thing: he can play me any number of fantastic tracks from the remotest parts of the world, which is all well and good. I like to think that I love and appreciate the music of other cultures as well.
The point I make to him is that he has great world music on his doorstep (music that has also gone all around the globe) in the form of Irish traditional music but he thinks nothing of mocking it. He can't quite see that it's of the same value or of any value for that matter.
well music is music & part of the beauty is that not everything will turn everyone on. but some people do have a slightly funny view of Trad music in that they won't even try to enjoy it. however i'd say that there are plenty of Trad fans on hear who would consider Dance DJ's to be of no use, so it works both ways really.
Good points palethin boy. It would be a funny old world if everybody liked the same thing. But, as you say, they don't let themselves enjoy it.
I have another colleague who happily sings along to things from The X-Factor or from musicals like West Side Story but when something traditional/folk comes on he says things like: 'Why does he close his eyes?' or 'Turn off that whining.'! The music is ignored. Mind you, he always refers to my mandolin as a banjo.
"Mind you, he always refers to my mandolin as a banjo"
Get used to that as this will happen everywhere you go. Another thing you'll have to suffer is people asking if you have a machine gun in your fiddle or mandolin case.
I've long since stopped worrying about what people think about my chosen instrument(s) and preferref genre of music. Thankfully, I'm now retired. So, the work place isn't a problem anymore.
Thomas the Tank Engine played the mandolin solo in the Beatles Hey Jude and composed the theme wall paper to Eastenders on a wellripe marrow scrumped from Leon Trotsky's garden kitchen et cetera et cetera et cetera et cetera...
Jack White of The White Stripes played mandolin for the film Cold Mountain,
Boyd Tinsley, violin player of the Dave Matthews Band has been using an electric mandolin since 2005...just to name a couple!
Jane's Addiction use a mando-- instead of guitar-- in their cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" or their live debut. I've seen 'em do it live, too-- mighty fine.
The mandolin in pop music
The mandolin in pop music
We don't have enough to do in the office...
One of my colleagues who's a 'dance' DJ (baseball cap turned backwards—you get the picture) and who dislikes traditional music was doing down the mandolin today. He has a Captain Corelli type idea of it.
I reminded him that the mandolin had featured in many pop hits over the years but I could only think of two off the top of my head: 'Maggie May' by Rod Stewart and 'Losing My Religion' by REM.
Can you think of any more?
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by amhrán
Re: The mandolin in pop music
Have a look through Joe Browns back catalogue?
(as in Joe Brown and the Bruvvers)
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by Mike.T
Re: The mandolin in pop music
I was reading an article yesterday about Jimmy Page using it in Led Zeppelin.
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by MorganYYZ
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Steve Earl uses it also..
The Waterboys
Kate Bush
Jethro Tull
Paul McCarthy
The Smiths
Oh and
Mike Oldfield..on that Tubular Bells thingy.
K
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by Kess
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Just wondering how modern these beat combo's are that feature mandolins ?
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by bazouki dave
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jacka lindisfarne
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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Have a look at this - http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?18398-listing-of-rock-songs-w-mando. There are tons there.
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by MacCruiskeen
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...and Ray Jackson was the bloke playing on Maggie May although Rod Stewart only managed to credit him as 'the bloke from Lindisfarne' at the time...
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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...and the recently deceased Bob Holness played the famous mandolin solo on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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mmmmm would you like to bet on that Yhaalhouse?
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by bazouki dave
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and Rod Stewart played the tin sandwich solo on Millie's 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop...
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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Roy Castle was the secret trumpet player in Planxty...
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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Adolf Hitler played the Vibraphone for Neil Innes's band or so he said. Neil that is not Hitler
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by bazouki dave
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It's not very well known that Derek Bell (of the Chieftains) bowled a hat trick at the 1932 Oval test against the Sri Lankans...
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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Desmond Tutu & Lady Gaga rowed across the Irish Sea in a leaky boat this Christmas to avoid having to throw pots and whistle Max Bygraves favourites on the Hollyhead ferry...
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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I thought it was Viv's band!
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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Bonzo Dog doo da band I think?
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by bazouki dave
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...and anyway haven't you just done the Godwin's Law thing (albeit rather laterally and inadvertantly)?
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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I bet there is a Neil Innes or Bonzo track with the eight string devil on it.
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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A law is a law but only for comedic effect
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by bazouki dave
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When I'm Dead And Gone" - "McGuiness Flint".
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by Kenny
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"I was reading an article yesterday about Jimmy Page using it in Led Zeppelin."
The Battle of Evermore. Maybe some other songs as well - I only know the one album well.
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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"We don't have enough to do in the office..."
You don't work in certain parts of the public service, do you by any chance, Amhrán?!!
Ouch, maybe that was a bit below the belt!
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by the wounded hussar
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steve winwood.
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by 'tinamatt
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There must be one or two trilling egg-slicer jobs in the Walls Cornetto song...
# Posted on January 13th 2012 by nicholas
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Tell him to listen at Chris Thile .He'll soon eat his words!!
# Posted on January 14th 2012 by banjitar
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There’s Snoop Dogg’s uberpimp gangsta anthem “Gin and Juice” that’s mostly mandolin, bass, and vocals
http://joefago.com/The_Gourds_Gin_and_Juice.mp3
# Posted on January 14th 2012 by fidkid
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OK it’s a cover of the Snoop Dogg song (by The Gourds), but what a cover. Also goes to show that technical virtuosity gets trumped by enthusiasm nearly every dangitty time.
# Posted on January 14th 2012 by fidkid
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Joe . . .
enthusiasm? yes
technical virtuosity?
Maybe in your pop mandolin dream world.
Dangitty-Ding-Dang!
Stick with chromatic shakies. The Gourds could do worse.
;)
# Posted on January 14th 2012 by ain't fluffed
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Don't forget Nigel Tufnel's mando bit on Stone Henge.
# Posted on January 14th 2012 by CleverName
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Not forgetting REM, although I always reckoned he was out of tune.
# Posted on January 15th 2012 by Guernsey Pete
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tell this 'dance' DJ to stop wasting your time, his taste in music is so bad that there is little point in trying to get him to understand what a mandolin is.
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by palethinboy
The mandolin in pop music_2
Thanks everyone for a great listing. I'll go back to battle well armed—when the office is quiet again.
Yes, hussar, I do work in the public service, but that was just an off day—I promise!
palethinboy, I think you may be right. He claims he's involved in the more 'serious' dance music—not the stuff in the charts. To be fair, he's also in a band that plays the stuff, although he doesn't actually 'play'—he does the spinning the turntables bit, presumably with his baseball cap reversed. I'm sounding very ancient here!
He's also interested in 'world music' and has lots of downloaded recordings. But here's the thing: he can play me any number of fantastic tracks from the remotest parts of the world, which is all well and good. I like to think that I love and appreciate the music of other cultures as well.
The point I make to him is that he has great world music on his doorstep (music that has also gone all around the globe) in the form of Irish traditional music but he thinks nothing of mocking it. He can't quite see that it's of the same value or of any value for that matter.
It's a strange old world.
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by amhrán
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well music is music & part of the beauty is that not everything will turn everyone on. but some people do have a slightly funny view of Trad music in that they won't even try to enjoy it. however i'd say that there are plenty of Trad fans on hear who would consider Dance DJ's to be of no use, so it works both ways really.
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by palethinboy
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that does not read well...................WE NEED AN EDIT BUTTON FOR JAYSUS SAKE!!!!!
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by palethinboy
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What was wrong with the old discussion thread?
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by SmashTheWindows
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'What was wrong with the old discussion thread?'
Would people still check back to it?
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by amhrán
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Everything needs mocking once in a while
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by ...
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Good points palethin boy. It would be a funny old world if everybody liked the same thing. But, as you say, they don't let themselves enjoy it.
I have another colleague who happily sings along to things from The X-Factor or from musicals like West Side Story but when something traditional/folk comes on he says things like: 'Why does he close his eyes?' or 'Turn off that whining.'! The music is ignored. Mind you, he always refers to my mandolin as a banjo.
Maybe I just need to get a new workplace!
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by amhrán
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You could be right llig. Maybe I take life too seriously...
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by amhrán
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Maybe you need a new banjo
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by ...
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"Mind you, he always refers to my mandolin as a banjo"
Get used to that as this will happen everywhere you go. Another thing you'll have to suffer is people asking if you have a machine gun in your fiddle or mandolin case.
I've long since stopped worrying about what people think about my chosen instrument(s) and preferref genre of music. Thankfully, I'm now retired. So, the work place isn't a problem anymore.
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by Johnny Jay
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Thomas the Tank Engine played the mandolin solo in the Beatles Hey Jude and composed the theme wall paper to Eastenders on a wellripe marrow scrumped from Leon Trotsky's garden kitchen et cetera et cetera et cetera et cetera...
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by yhaalhouse
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"Another thing you'll have to suffer is people asking if you have a machine gun in your fiddle or mandolin case..."
That would be in Central America, or Manchester.
# Posted on January 16th 2012 by nicholas
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Jack White of The White Stripes played mandolin for the film Cold Mountain,
Boyd Tinsley, violin player of the Dave Matthews Band has been using an electric mandolin since 2005...just to name a couple!
# Posted on January 17th 2012 by nataliebrowncr
Re: The mandolin in pop music
Jane's Addiction use a mando-- instead of guitar-- in their cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" or their live debut. I've seen 'em do it live, too-- mighty fine.
# Posted on February 3rd 2012 by chris stolz