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06-14-2009, 02:40 AM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | I just listened to the samples- tasty stuff! Love the production, too.
One of those bands whose name I always hear but who I've never listened to knowingly.
Thanks for the heads up. |
06-14-2009, 03:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | Smithereens....OH COOL!
These blokes are great...I bought one of their albums way back in '89 (the one with "House that we used to live in"...
I didn't know that they were still rockin' it...fantastic!
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06-15-2009, 09:55 PM
|  | Looking like a born-again. Living like a heretic. Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PilbaraBass  Smithereens....OH COOL!
...I bought one of their albums way back in '89 (the one with "House that we used to live in"... | That's Green Thoughts, a really great record. I tried to get my first band to cover "House" or "Only a Memory", but the lead guitarist wasn't into it.
I still gotta hear the Beatles records. Seriously, I'm so behind...
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06-16-2009, 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Blackbird That's Green Thoughts, a really great record. I tried to get my first band to cover "House" or "Only a Memory", but the lead guitarist wasn't into it.
I still gotta hear the Beatles records. Seriously, I'm so behind... | Thanks for reminding me...yep, it was a great record...I'll have to download a couple of the .mp3's
They're just a straight-ahead, no-frills, seriously-good rock band... |
06-16-2009, 10:52 PM
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06-17-2009, 08:59 AM
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06-17-2009, 10:09 AM
| | | | Severo "The Thrilla" Jornacion - Bass guitar, vocals for The Smithereens now. |
06-17-2009, 10:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | I love those guys. In one of my old cover bands we used to do "Blood and Roses".
I saw them back in the late 80s, an outdoor amphitheater opening up for Cheap Trick and they blew Cheap Trick off the stage. I can't remember the name of their drummer but he was up there with seriously like a 4-piece kit and just nailing down the time.
Glad to know they're still out there doing it.
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06-17-2009, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Massachusetts USofA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackbird That's Green Thoughts, a really great record. I tried to get my first band to cover "House" or "Only a Memory", but the lead guitarist wasn't into it.
I still gotta hear the Beatles records. Seriously, I'm so behind... | One of the most underrated American bands. If you like "Green Thoughts," try to track down the LP that preceded it, "Especially for You" and their debut EP, "Beauty and Sadness." They both BLOW AWAY "Green Thoughts," guaranteed.
They were originally released on the now-defunct Enigma label. "Especially" is available on iTunes, and you can find parts of "Beauty" (including the genius title track that out-Taxmans "Taxman") on at least one "Best of." Enjoy!!! |
06-17-2009, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by jaywa I love those guys. In one of my old cover bands we used to do "Blood and Roses".
I saw them back in the late 80s, an outdoor amphitheater opening up for Cheap Trick and they blew Cheap Trick off the stage. I can't remember the name of their drummer but he was up there with seriously like a 4-piece kit and just nailing down the time.
Glad to know they're still out there doing it. | Dennis Diken on drums! He'd do OK in a Bun E. Carlos look-alike contest.
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06-17-2009, 10:57 AM
| | | Here are two greatest hits collections of The Smithereens tunes, check out this CD called From Jersey It Came. This one has 39 songs on two CDs. http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-From...257239&sr=8-34
One of their greatest hits CDs called Blown To Smithereens includes a remake of The Outsiders old song called Time Won't Let Me that was in the Timecop movie. http://www.amazon.com/Blown-Smithere...5257798&sr=8-3
My current band plays Behind The Wall Of Sleep and I used to play some other Smithereens tunes like Time And Time Again, Blood And Roses, A Girl Like You, and Blues Before And After. |
06-17-2009, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by dalkowski Dennis Diken on drums! He'd do OK in a Bun E. Carlos look-alike contest. | Yeah that's the guy. That show I saw with Smithereens and Cheap Trick was the all-time "dorky drummers who rule" doubleheader.
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" is an awesome tune as well. My cover band did "Girl Like You" as well as "Blood and Roses". The bummer thing about covering those songs was, Smithereens tunes down 1/2 step and none of us had 2nd guitars so we'd be playing those songs 1/2 step higher than the recorded versions and they just didn't sound the same.
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06-17-2009, 11:08 AM
| | | | Every band I played in that did Smithereens songs played them in sharp or flat keys since we were not detuned and it worked out fine. My band plays Behind The Wall Of Sleep in Eb. Lots of people really like that song here and we even get requests for it. |
06-17-2009, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Richland123 Every band I played in that did Smithereens songs played them in sharp or flat keys since we were not detuned and it worked out fine. My band plays Behind The Wall Of Sleep in Eb. Lots of people really like that song here and we even get requests for it. | Because it's a GREAT, GREAT song. Doesn't hurt that DiNizio name-checks Jeannie Shrimpton and Bill Wyman.
I really need to blow the dust off that LP. |
06-17-2009, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | hmmm - I always wondered what happened to them...
I'm not wild about the whole 'tribute' thing, but these guys were good - *great* freakin' guitar tone on the recordings... So I'll give it a listen
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06-17-2009, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | I was never 100% sold on the bass tone on Smithereens' discs... but the lines he was playing and the feel were just so darn good I was able to get past it. Always loved the drum sounds, though. |
06-17-2009, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Richland123 My band plays Behind The Wall Of Sleep in Eb. Lots of people really like that song here and we even get requests for it. | So, you all tune down 1/2 step then just for that song? Or do you all switch guitars? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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