TAKE MY TIP : Various Artists - Take My Tip (1963-67 ) 25 BRITISH MODS ARTEFACTS FROM THE UK EMI VAULTS |PLAIN & FANCY

 Various Artists - Take My Tip (1963-67 )

25 BRITISH MODS ARTEFACTS FROM THE UK EMI VAULTS

Dedicated to the  enduring appeal of 60s music in its various guises. UK  bands in the 60s successfully fused their love of U.S. black music with  other styles, charged it with a healthy dose of youthful aggression and  called it their own. 

 

That's in essence the Beat and R&B era, of course, in  a nutshell. But a quick glimpse at the credits for this compilation reveals  more: previously, serious-minded musicians shunned "pop". The R ‘n’ B explosion  brought them into the fold: now, hardcore jazz musicians could be found in  the ranks of various beat combos.  

Running parallel with this musical renaissance was a similarly exciting  evolution in youth culture. Mod was the catch-all term used to describe the  newly-acquired aspirant lifestyle adopted by many teenagers - with a  strongly identifiable look, the emphasis on the neat, the sharp, the  modern.

 

Four or so decades on, Mod has now come to symbolise the era,  inseparable from the iconography of the mid-60s, and kept alive by a small  but perfectly formed scene of people who weren't even born at the time.  What's Mod? What you want it to be. Is this Mod? Who cares?! In essence, Take My Tip is a fascinating jukebox of classic rarities.

From CD liner notes

Artists - Tracks - Composer

1. Ottilie Patterson with Sonny Boy Williamson - Baby Please Don't Go (Joe Williams) - 1:48

2. Long John Baldry And Hoochie Coochie Men - Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) - 2:50 

3. Duffy Power - If I Get Lucky Some Day (Duffy Power) - 2:42 

4. Tony's Defenders - Yes I Do (Tony Diamond) - 2:23 

5. The Manish Boys - Take My Tip (David Joner) - 2:15 

6. Chris Farlowe And The Thunderbirds - Buzz With The Fuzz (Albert Lee, John Deighton, Ricky Charman) - 2:30 

7. The Shotgun Express - Curtains (Peter Bardens) - 2:21

8. Herbie Goins And Night Timers - Cruisin' (John McLaughlin) - 2:40 

9. The Ram Jam Band With Geno Washington - Shake Shake Senora (Frank Guida, Gene Barge, Joseph Royster) - 2:31 

10.Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers - Strange Feeling (Bert DeCoteaux, Joseph Cook) - 2:37  

11.Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - Medley: 60 Minutes (Of Your Love) A Lot Of Love (David Porter, Isaac Hayes / Homer Banks) - 3:37 

12.Haydock's Rockhouse - Mix-A-Fix (David Paramor, Eric Haydock, Peter Eden) - 2:24 

13.Beryl Marsden - What's She Got (Bob Barratt, Len Beadle) - 2:35  

14.The Roulettes - Jackpot (Bob Henrit, John Rogan, Peter Thorpe, Russ Ballard) - 2:05  

15.Mike Patto - Love (Elton Dean, Mike Patto) - 3:01 

16.Rod Stewart - I Just Got Some (Billy Emerson, Willie Dixon) - 2:40  

17.Toni Daly - Like The Big Man Said (Giovanni Alceo Guatelli, Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Peter Callander) - 2:51 

18.Murray Head with Blue Monks - You Bore Me (Murray Head) - 2:11 

19.Kenny Lynch with Laurie Jay Combo - Harlem Library (Kenny Lynch) - 2:22

20.Edwick Rumbold - Boggle Woggle (Roger James) - 2:48  

21.The N' Betweens - Evil Witch Man (Dave Hill, Don Powell, Jim Lea, Kim Fowley, Noddy Holder) - 2:19  

22.The Shadows - Scotch On The Socks (Brian Bennett, Bruce Welch,  Hank Marvin, John Rostill) - 2:18

23.Ben Carruthers And The Deep - Jack O'Diamonds (Ben Carruthers, Bob Dylan) - 2:44  

24.Paul Williams And Big Roll Band, The - Gin House (Fletcher Henderson, Henry Troy) - 2:37  

25.Night-Timers Featuring Herbie Goins - The Music Played On (Ray Smith, Tony Colton) - 2:46  

Wow this seems like an extraordinary gem and the thesis about Mod roots here is quite unique from the early blues roots of trad jazzer Ottilie Patterson who played with Chris Barber Band and Lonnie Donegan who really created skiffle between breaks on the jazzer’s band music show so beloved of hep cats of the beat era! Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds were an early blues purchase as Little Joe Cook and their Stormy Monday with Albert Lee still worth seeking if you can find it. I bought it at 13! Chris’ Handbags and Gladrags and support fro staunch rockers The Stones also did cross over into Modland!

Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band were definitely popular with the 60s British Mod movement as was early Rodney Stewart but there are some truly eccentric contributions here so Simon Dupree (Kites) and Murray Head (One Night In Bankok) and Long John Baldry were in effect Blues based and Beryl Marsden was well known to the Beatles and the cross over thus was from blues to Trad Jazz to Skiffle to Soul and pure Pop! Amazing document! 

Miss it at your peril . . . . . pop music history right here! 

 

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For a beginner, could you explain the advantages of playing in an open tuning versus standard tuning?

Johnny Winter: Well, when you’re playing with a slide, the advantages are that you’ve got that chord there. You can just barre the strings and you’ve got a chord to work with. That’s the advantage – that you’ve got an open chord to work with, and you can have that chord ring down in the bass notes while you play the top strings with your fingers – I do some of that. You know, I keep the bass going with my thumb and play lead with my fingers, especially if I’m playing by myself. That’s a big help. The notes are easier to go to. It’s easier to go to blues notes in those two tunings than it is if you’re just tuning to standard tuning. Duane Allman was about the best slide man at playing with a regular tuning. You just don’t get too many chords, especially if you don’t use your little finger [for the slide]. That’s pretty important.

I started out using my ring finger because it really feels weird playing with a slide on your little finger, but a guy from the Denver Folklore Society – I think his name was Dave Debetzer – he was a blues freak, and he got me my first National guitar for about a hundred-and-fifty bucks, and he really helped me a whole lot, man. He forced me to use that little finger. He said, “Man, you’re gonna be unhappy later on down the line if you don’t change.” It’s so hard to do at first.

So you were initially wearing the slide on your ring finger, like Duane did.

Yeah. That’s what feels natural at first, but when you do that, you really can’t play chords. You can fret with those free fingers if you put the slide on your little finger. You can do a lot of fretwork with those three fingers. If you put the slide on the middle, it pretty much screws you up. You can’t do much chord work that way. So I have the slide halfway up my little finger, not all the way on it, but halfway up to where I can still bend that little finger.

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