BluesKing777 Posted April 17, 2013 Posted April 17, 2013 I have been playing around with this old rock tune, so here is my recording of my 'folky' fingerpicking/vocal version of Don Walker's Cold Chisel hit - Khe Sahn, which is probably not one thing like the original. Played on my 1959 Gibson LG3: https://soundcloud.com/bluesking777/khesahn01 BluesKing777.
jedzep Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 Wow...I must be either too old, too young, or just out of it. Who in the hell is Don Walker? Doesn't matter. Everything sounds good off your fingers, BK.
BluesKing777 Posted April 18, 2013 Author Posted April 18, 2013 Thanks JZ. Kind but untrue about the fingers, but all worth it for the laugh! BluesKing777.
retrorod Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 I'm with jedzep on this one.....The guy and the song.....do not 'ring a bell' with me? It sounded good.....BUT totally diff than I have heard of you in the past
QuestionMark Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 I have been playing around with this old rock tune, so here is my recording of my 'folky' fingerpicking/vocal version of Don Walker's Cold Chisel hit - Khe Sahn, which is probably not one thing like the original. Played on my 1959 Gibson LG3: https://soundcloud.com/bluesking777/khesahn01 BluesKing777. Enjoyed hearing you play and sing, plus the LG3 sound. Also, liked Love in Vain. Thanks for sharing. QM aka Jazzman Jeff
RusRob Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 Very nice BK, I have to say I really like your voice. I hope you don't take this as an insult but its a cross between Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. I like the next song on your list LoveInVain also. I wish I had half the blues in me that you do. Well I have it in me but it just doesn't come out... Nice job!
j45nick Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 I really like the song and the performance. It's odd that the Australian writer chose Khe Sanh as his subject, since there were no ground troops from Australia involved in that long, desperate, and ultimately futile battle during the Vietnam war.
flatbaroque Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 Really enjoyed that interpretation BK. This was a huge hit in Australia...a hard driving rock song with Jimmy Barnes on screaming vocals..pretty much still on high rotation on some radio stations..30 years later. BK's finger picking job is a very different and creative version...nice one.
EuroAussie Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 Really enjoyed that interpretation BK. This was a huge hit in Australia...a hard driving rock song with Jimmy Barnes on screaming vocals..pretty much still on high rotation on some radio stations..30 years later. BK's finger picking job is a very different and creative version...nice one. I agree with FB, enjoyable interpretation although takes a while to get used to after hearing the Chisel version over 1000's times in past .... its sort of our national anthem isnt it ? The rocking version actually works quite well on the acoustic also, and we normally sing this at a couple benefits we do here in Prague for the Aussie community on Anzac and Australia days..
zombywoof Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 I rarely hear anything that really grabs me but this one - just a freakin' great interpetation with some of the tastiest playing I have heard in quite a while. Now you have pushed me a bit to buckle down and stop noodlin' around so much.
BluesKing777 Posted April 18, 2013 Author Posted April 18, 2013 Thanks for the great replies! I really appreciate it. Technical recording wise, I listened to it again and there are a few levels glitches from the processing. I spent a fair bit of time on the original recording level and it was full. Oh well, as a recording engineer I make a great photographer. Apologies. I got the tune off Chordie.com. I enjoy using my blues fingerpicking background and applying it to pop songs and making some different arrangements of the tunes. If I am going to record a tune like that, I usually play it for a few days, then record it with one take, but this tune took me a lot more work. Originally I was doing the guitar as a chord strum style on my National steel and then I started to shuffle the feel a bit. Later I was playing my LG3 and just before I had to stop to go out for a while, I had a quick go at the song, but I thought the LG3 was a bit skinny..... The next day I tried the tune on a couple of other guitars, but returned to my National. After trying it a few times, I thought I would have a go at recording it in my Zoom H1, but I was playing it in Dm and I couldn't get the vocal right - wrong key and the Zoom picks up a lot of my breathing......OK, time for the big guns - out comes the Rode K2 mic. I place the mic off to my right to avoid breath noises and about half way between my guitar and mouth to get a balance of vocal/guitar - I've done this trick a lot, but it was not working with the National guitar for some reason. I grabbed the LG3 and had a few goes, but still played in the wrong key for the vocal. Capo!!!! My LG3 is tuned down 2 steps and I capoed it at the 3rd fret, which puts the song in Fm. Aha!!! I Iiked it. I had a run through of the song with a nice easy chord strum backing. I hit record on the gadgetry and as Keef says, I winged it! Started fingerpicking it instead.....recording red light fever - what happened to the chord strums... phew...not doing the tune again-- - 'my patience is runnin' out'.... BluesKing777.
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