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Topic: Tamborine in 60's pop music |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 27 Jun 2003 5:21 am |
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I recently caught the great documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", about the "Funk Brothers" - the studio musicans responsible for the Motwon sound and feel. It made me aware just how important the tamborine was to the Motown sound - absolutely integral.
And on the car radio this moring comes the Beatles "Ticket to Ride" with wall-to-wall tamborine. Two weeks ago, if you asked me whether "Ticket to Ride" had a tamborine I would have said no. It seems this mighty little percussion instrument had as big a role as the electric guitar in a lot of 60's pop. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 27 Jun 2003 5:27 am
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| "Hey, Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me..." |
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2003 6:51 am
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| As some know,I began my career as a recording engineer back in the late 60s/early 70s and I recorded many a tamborine.They have a strident piercing attack and are difficult to record without distortion.Besides that problem,you were often short on tracks. One trick that was employed back in the day when 8 track 1" Ampex,3M and Scully machines were state of the art was to put the high hat on a fringe track(1 or 8)and then disconnect the erase head on that track and overdub the tamborine on top of the hat.You did a lot of dry runs with a good player(usually the drummer)and then you had one shot - of course in those days cats could actually play their instruments.... -MJ- |
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Michael Holland
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2003 4:05 pm
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Good story, MJ.
"Now listen while I play - play - play - play - play.........." |
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Derek Duplessie
From:
La Jolla CA USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2003 10:24 pm
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"In the jinge djangle morning i'll come following
you." -Derek |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 29 Jun 2003 12:31 pm
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| Do Green Tamborines have the best tone? |
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Randy Pettit
From:
North Texas USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2003 7:04 am
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Sorry, Joey.
Contrary to the song, only the black mica tambourine has "that sound". 
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 30 Jun 2003 8:07 am
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"Make Your Own Tamborine Instructions"
- Start with one banjo.
- Remove Strings and Bridge
- Remove Neck
- Remove Resonator (in any)
- Add metal jangles to the side brackets
b0b may be interested |
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P Gleespen
From:
Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2003 8:08 am
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...Then in the '70's, that sweet sweet tamborine was inexplicably replaced by the nasty (gulp) cowbell.
Christopher Walken on SNL: "I need more of that COWbell!"
On the serious side, is that a PBS documentary? I have a book about (motown bass-moster) James Jamerson called "Standing in the Shadows of Motown"...is that documentary some sort of offshoot of that book? |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 30 Jun 2003 4:27 pm
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| Yes. It came about as a result of the author's research on the book and took a long time to get funded and made. the wait was worth it. It's a good film. |
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 30 Jun 2003 6:49 pm
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I like the banjo. It was in swing songs and ragtime [vaudville] way before the steel.
4-string plectrum, and 5-string, of course.
Sorry, but I grew up in Longmeadow, and was heavily influenced by the Kingston Trio
and the Chad Mitchell Trio, and, UH, the
Four-Preps. |
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