jackorion:
Hello,
Just to let you know, I heard “Fool On The Hill” for the first time today - I totally dig that song, I didn’t get to hear all of it, but what I did I hear, I really liked! The recorder and pennywhistle in it are really wizard sounding - I heard a trill in part of it. I haven’t found it on tape yet, but when I do, I’m definitely going to try to learn it. Just thought I’d tell you that, since we did talk about that song.
Peace,
Sara
Right on Sara. I guess there is just flute and recorder on that track though. But you can play it on the whistle and it sounds cool. Have you had a chance to try the stereo left/right pan trick yet?
take er easy, Jeff.
Hey Jeff,
That’s right - you told me it was a flute and recorder, I don’t know why I thought it was a whistle. I heard “Fool On The Hill” again yesterday and got all of it on tape, I was really happy about that. This local radio station was playing an all day Beatles marathon, so I got quite a few songs on tape! One for instance was, “Revolution #9” -have you ever heard it? That is probably the weirdest song I have ever heard, but I really liked it. Actually, I hadn’t tried that stereo pan left/right thing yet - thanks for reminding me, I’m going to try it tonight!
Peace, 
Sara
[ This Message was edited by: Sara on 2001-12-03 21:08 ]
Yea, let me know how that turns out. #9 is a Lennon piece influenced by Yoko. The other three Beatles including George Martin (producer) tried to keep it off the album (self titled aka the White Album) If you can, check out the Anthology videos. They are great, packed with tons of info.
Enjoy the music!!
Jeff
jackorion,
Sorry I hadn’t replied sooner. It doesn’t surpise me that #9 was a John/Yoko piece - they had their own unique style and that song is definitely unique! I’ll check out the Anothology videos. I have a question, have you ever seen the concert of John Lennon’s called “John Lennon: Live in New York City”? I heard about it and am considering buying it, but don’t know if it’s good or not.
Peace,
Sara
W.W.J.D
What Would John Do
[ This Message was edited by: Sara on 2001-12-06 20:32 ]
Hi Sara
I haven’t seen that video, I don’t even know what songs are on it. I have seen small clips from it though, but my memory isn’t there for it. I think it was straight forward rock stuff, not to Beatleish sounding. I would love to0 have that video myself. I kind of forgot about it. I’ll keep an eye out myself.
You know what video is Merlin wizard is the George Harrison Concert for Bangladesh. It’s very very cool. Bob Dylan makes an apperance. He’s one of my all time favorites. His folk melodies are fun to work out on the whistle.
Take care,
Jack “don’t know what Lennon would do” Orion
Hi Jeff,
I have the cassette version of it and it is straight forward rock, but I really like it - it has “Imagine” and “Come Together” - two of my all-time favorites. I’ve never heard of that George Harrison concert, it sounds quite cool! I’m not too familiar with George Harrison’s solo work - I have heard “Here Comes The Sun” and totally dig it. But I’ll have to look for that concert as well. I’m not very familiar with Bob Dylan’s music either, I have heard some of his songs, but not many. Have you ever tried playing “Imagine” on the whistle? I imagine it would be quite pretty sounding.
Peace,
Sara
P.S. How you signed your name was SO funny 
W.W.J.D
What Would John Do?
[ This Message was edited by: Sara on 2001-12-07 20:32 ]
Hay, your right!! Imagine sounds great on whistle. I just tinkerd around with it on my low D and I got goose bumps:)
About Dylan, I never knew to much about him untill I started to get into Folk music. The first “folk” record I bought was Woody Guthrie “Dust Bowl Ballads” I had just bought my first acoustic guitar (can’t play electric, it’s a whole nother animal). I was looking for something different, I knew I wanted to check out acoustic music. For some reason I just bought Woody’s record without knowing a thing about it. That was the fork in the road for me. Anyways, Early young Bob Dylan was considerd by many to be the new Woody Guthrie and there is often a mention of Bob in essays about Guthrie. So I checked him out, and can honestly say he’s been one of the most important music discoveries I have made.
Dylan is HUGE, a true American treasure. In the sixties there was Dylan, and the Beatles. Both impacted each other. In my opinion Dylan to the Beatles more then the other way around. Lennon goes on record as being frightend by Dylan’s song writing.
I could go on forever about this, but it’s all out there for you to check out for yourself. It’s very exciting to discover this stuff for the first time. Have fun if you choose to do so.
Jack "Times they are a changin’ Orion
That’s cool that you tried it - I’m going to try and play it later on tonight. I had a feeling “Imagine” on a whistle would give a person goose bumps, it gives me goose bumps when I hear John playing it, that song is just so beautiful!. Do you think it will sound good on an Acorn D? That’s the whistle I have, I also have a Clarke C. Do you have the sheet music to “Imagine”? I have the orginal version of it, just bought it a couple of weeks ago and have been learning it on the piano. I think I have heard of Woody Guthrie, but am not sure if I’ve ever heard his songs. The songs I have heard of Bob Dylan’s, I have liked… I just haven’t explored Folk that much, I go through many phases in music, so Folk will probably be an area of music I’ll get into at some point. That strikes me so odd that John Lennon would be frightened by Dylan’s song writing -I wouldn’t think John would be intimidated by someone else. I am going to do some research about all of this - I know what you mean, when I find something out about music that I didn’t know, it’s very exciting! By the way, do you play any piano?
Peace,
Sara
W.W.J.D
What Would John Do?
[ This Message was edited by: Sara on 2001-12-08 20:44 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Sara on 2001-12-08 20:47 ]
Umm, Sara, Jack (trying to be uncharacteristically polite here),
Could you please continue this off the message board? I mean, this isn’t really the proper place… E-mail or the private message feature of this board would be much more appropriate.
Thanks,
Loren
[ This Message was edited by: Loren on 2001-12-08 21:52 ]
Loren,
I’m sorry - you’re right. It was rather rude of me, I apologize. Hope you’re not too mad! 
Again, very sorry!
Peace,
Sara
Nope, not mad at all. Thanks Sara
Loren
If I may add a postscript to Sara’s message–
Woody’s most popular song is ‘This
Land is Your Land, This Land is My
Land,’ which you probably already know.
It goes OK on the whistle–
I find the whistle works best on it
playing harmony against the tune.
We do it in C, I think, and I use
a G whistle.
There was a period of several years
during the 60s where Dylan’s musical
genius bordered on demonic possession.
Often when I heard a new Dylan release
I thought: ‘OK, this is over the top.
The guy’s gone nuts.’ About a week later
I realized what I was hearing was
very good, and my conception of music
would shift. A lot of people found
Dylan a bit frightening.
‘Mama just allow me one more chance’
rocks on the whistle. Last week on
the street a drunk guy came up and
insisted on playing with us–it’s our
policy to let people do that. I expected
the worst, but he played a brilliant
version of ‘There Must Be Some Kind of
Way Out of Here,’ which me allowed ample
opportunity to improvise on the G whistle.
(He kept offering us vodka from a bottle
he had in his pocket, got mad and split
cause we wouldn’t join him–don’t know
whether to laugh or cry.)
It would be nice to hear of other
Dylan tunes that suit the whistle.
[ This Message was edited by: jim stone on 2001-12-09 11:50 ]
“Blowin’ In The Wind” is very appropriate for th e whistle, but thats an obvious. Dylan was and is a very melodic vocalist. Whether or not you like like his voice is another story. But I think many of his earlier tunes work out nicely on the whistle. Some of his rock ballads as well. “Just Like A Women” would be fantastic. I have a recording of Bill Frisell working magic on an instrumental version of this tune. I’ll be working on “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” as soon as the roommates leaves:)
Lorin, sorry if the thread strayed off a bit to much. These things happen. Sara, you can always use the private function if you want to chat OT. I’ll reply as best I can to any ?'s you might have.
Jack “Jokerman” Orion
jim stone:
I have heard “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land” loads of times - I like it all right, I’ve never thought about it on a whistle - hhmm, I’ll have to try that. That’s funny/cool about that guy that came up to guys and asked to play - I’m surprised he was able to play if he was drunk.
jackorion:
the songs you mentioned I have never heard of before, but I will listen for them on the radio. I never really thought of the private message thing. Thanks, if I have any questions, I’ll ask you! Thanks again,
Sara