Tuesday, August 28, 2018

"Summertime"

When I transferred my old posts here, I noticed that I'd made some mistakes in my notation of the bass part in "Summertime."  I still think I have the right pitches, but I had some wrong note values.  I was under the mistaken impression that the length of a whole note is equal to the number of beats in a measure no matter what the time signature is, but whole notes are actually equal to four beats.  Where I had whole notes (four beats), I should have had dotted half notes (three beats).

Recently, I re-wrote the notation to correct my mistake, and I added in the guitar chords.  However, this still comes with the disclaimer that I might have something wrong:

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

1971 Argent Concert

Via the Zombies Fan Club on Facebook, here's a link to a page on Russ Ballard's website of an Argent concert from 1971.  The data from the Facebook post give only the year and that it was probably recorded from the radio on Sunday.  I did some research and discovered the exact date: 14 February 1971.  In the audio file itself, the announcer (identified as John Peel in the Facebook post) mentions that a band called Egg played the first half and that next week's program will feature the Roy Young Band.  There's a wiki devoted to Peel's radio broadcasts, and the page for 1971 lists a program with Egg and Argent on 14 February 1971 and a program with the Roy Young Band the following week (21 February).  The specific page for 14 February 1971 links to an archived version of a BBC site with details on the Egg recording, including the location of Lower Regent Street, which Ballard confirms in the Facebook post: "I remember the show, it was recorded at the BBC Regent Street."

Here's the set list:
  • "Lothlorien"
  • "Chained"
  • "Rejoice"
  • "The Fakir"
  • "Sweet Mary"
After that, the tape seems to skip, and there are additional, different versions of "Rejoice" and "Chained."  Those don't seem to be from the same show, since Peel says, "Argent finish with 'Sweet Mary.'"