Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 21st 2005 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lose The Head
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
(3Bcd eg ~f2~f2|g2gf gfed|(3Bcd eg fa~a2|1 gfeg fedA:|2 gfeg fedf||
|:a2^ga ~f2~f2|agfa gb~b2|a2^ga ~f2~f2|1 gfeg fedf:|2 gfeg fede||
|:fedf edce|dBcd cA~A2|BAGB AF~F2|1 EFGE FEDe:|2 EFGE FEDA||
Got this tune from a recording of a session. A flute player and visiting fiddler both knew the tune but when I asked the name all they said was that there was that the source was Garry Shannon. Does anyone know what album it's come from and can tell me the correct title? The transcription is of the flute player's setting. The fiddler's setting was slightly different:
X: 1
T: Garry Shannon's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
Bdeg f2ed|Aggf ~g3e|(3Bcd eg ef~f2|1 g2eg fedA:|2 g2eg fedf||
|:a2^ga ~f2~f2|afdf g2fg|a2^ga ~f2~f2|1 g2eg fedf:|2 g2eg fede||
|:fedf fece|dBBA ~c3A|BAGB BAFD|1 EFGE FEDe:|2 EFGE FEDA||
# Posted on January 21st 2005 by Dow
Two years later...
Two years later, here's the story. Gary calls the tune "Lose the Head." It's the 3rd. tune in the1st. medley on his first album, "Lose the Head."
It is also the 3rd. tune in a medley played by the great Breton flautist, Michel Bonamy, on a mid-80s Ceili Bandits tape. The only name I have for the medly is "Tricia Shannon's/Jerry Doyle's." I don't know to which tunes this refers, but I assume it is to the first two in the medley, since Michel would know that the 3rd is probably Gary Shannon's composition.
# Posted on August 29th 2006 by cocus
Lose The Head
Cocusflute, thanks for the info. On his homepage @ http://www.irish-flute.com/irish-flute/asp/page.asp?p=17, Garry says "I know absolutely nothing about Lose The Head. It caught my ear among a rake of other reels recorded at some mad session Milltown" which suggests that it's not his composition. I wonder if it's Michel Bonamy's...
# Posted on December 28th 2006 by Dow
Lose The Head
Over 3 years later and I finally get to hear it on the recording:
X: 1
T: Lose The Head
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
S: Garry Shannon
K: Dmaj
(3Bcd eg ~f3a|~g3f gfed|(3Bcd eg ~f3a|~g3e fedz:|
|:a2^ga ~f3z|agfa gb~b2|ba^ga fzaf|~g3e fedg:|
|:fedf edce|dc (3Bcd cBAc|BAGB AGFG|1 EF (3GFE FEDz:|2 EF (3GFE FEDA||
Examples of some of his funky variations are as follows
A-part: |DFAd ~f3B|eGBg gfed|FAde faaf|gbeg fedz||
B-part: |dfa^g =gafg|adfa gb~b2|ba^ga fzaf|gBeg fedf||
C-part: |fafa eaec|dcdB cAcA|BdBd AdAd|~G3E FEDz||
# Posted on April 23rd 2008 by Dow
Commonalty
I'm pretty sure this is a track on the eponymous Commonalty recording featuring Joanne and Paul McSherry, Davy Maguire and Milo Crossan. It came out in 1989.
Davy, the flute player, makes frequent trips to Brittany so maybe he got it from Michel or vice versa.
# Posted on June 17th 2008 by Conán McDonnell