I Can Tell



I CAN TELL, Another blues classic where the Pirates intensification of the British Rock feel is easily heard when compared to the terrific Bo Diddley (1962) version, up first -



Here is the ( also 1962 ) Johnny Kidd & The Pirates version, with the Mick Green almost percusssive chord-playing which influenced so many '60s and '70s musicians...love the simple 4-note intro which cues in the drums and bass so tightly -




And finally, this ( then 20-yr-old ) drummer's old band, The Storms, making a fair crack in 1965 at being the first ever J.Kidd & The Pirates 'tribute band' before such a concept had hit the streets...two things to note upfront (!) yep, that's my hairy bonce hiding the naughty-bit; and second, there are snippets of the two tracks  which were played live before and after 'I Can Tell' - the end of 'No Reply' and the beginning of 'Memphis Tennessee' - oh, third point : this recording was made with one mic hanging on the wall leading into an old Grundig reel-to-reel tape machine, a tape which was dug out of an attic about 4 years ago, transferred onto a CD recorder, and finally uploaded to a computer through a guitar-lead plugged into a cheap CD-player. A studio-recording might have been something like twice as good -




3 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 25, 2011 at 4:15 PM

    Hope they had the heating on for that girl !

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  2. LeeDecember 27, 2011 at 10:51 AM

    Uncha coocha man is my Bo Diddley all time best. I never get tired from listen to it.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 28, 2011 at 7:09 PM

    The blues version is wonderful - never heard it before

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