pete.young Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 19/10/2018 at 10:33, jacko said: Not cowbell but Northumbrian pipes. Kathryn Tickell's contribution to sting's 'Fields of gold' raise the song beyond ordinary. Eva Cassidy's version is just 'MEH' in comparison. Humble? A full set of Northumbrian small pipes costs thousands of pounds and takes many years to learn to play. I saw her band earlier this year and they were superb, I'd take that over Sting any day of the week. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridgehouse Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 20/10/2018 at 00:39, skankdelvar said: Hendrix doubling his guitar solo in Crosstown Traffic with a comb and paper. Fact. Here's a bloke playing Oh Suzanna on a comb and paper which is obvs not Purple Haze but you get the drift. Tsk! Come come now old chap - you can do better than that It wasn’t a comb and paper but a comb and cellophane that Jimi improvised a Kazoo with.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 hour ago, pete.young said: Humble? A full set of Northumbrian small pipes costs thousands of pounds and takes many years to learn to play. I saw her band earlier this year and they were superb, I'd take that over Sting any day of the week. I've been a fan for years from first seeing her play in Northumberland before I left home around 1995 but I've been a small pipes fan since I was at school - my art teacher's son, David Burleigh was one of our local makers and he came to school a few times to give demonstrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 5 hours ago, pete.young said: Humble? A full set of Northumbrian small pipes costs thousands of pounds and takes many years to learn to play. I saw her band earlier this year and they were superb, I'd take that over Sting any day of the week. Yes indeed. Most definitely they not qualify as being humble neither in terms of price nor in the level of skill needed! Viz my OP other than the glorious cowbell some other suggestions for humble instruments have been mentioned e.g. claves, vibraslap, triangle. I'm also thinking of cabasas, guiros, kazoos, tin whistles, shaky eggs, tambourines, shekeres etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassace Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 I played in a band long ago the used a slap stick in some numbers. Hell of a crack. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=slap+sticks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#imgdii=jkOBJKdpl1E-XM:&imgrc=YGNiskOfrKXs6M: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveFry Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 ^ Reminds me of : I guess it was a slapstick on the record , and the whip was just a stage prop . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Stylophone? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The good ol' 'Finger Snap'...Who needs snare drums ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The Eddie Cochran hit C'mon Everybody featured his manager Jerry Capehart playing 'drums' on a cardboard box. A cardboard box: prob not the one used in the C'mon Everybody session Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 I didn't read the whole thread - somebody must have mentioned "Einstein a gogo" What about the Sitar on "Ever so Lonely" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 (edited) Not sure if it is humble, but the Theremin ? Maybe there should be a weird thread for some of these Instruments? Edited October 23, 2018 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 20/10/2018 at 00:47, drTStingray said: Another shout for the humble cow bell. One of the bands I play in covers this - we didn't realise what was missing until the singer added the cow bell!! Low Rider - War (and the You Tube link won't embed so you have click on it 🤔) https://youtu.be/WeKw6c9aTJ0 Agree, although my favourite is the Exodus version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 21 minutes ago, skankdelvar said: The Eddie Cochran hit C'mon Everybody featured his manager Jerry Capehart playing 'drums' on a cardboard box. A cardboard box: prob not the one used in the C'mon Everybody session Expect to see it for sale on ebay at some point... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 6 minutes ago, Bolo said: Agree, although my favourite is the Exodus version. A great song killed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftybassman392 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 (edited) Not so sure a Sitar counts as humble either. It's been around for hundreds of years, is a staple of Indian (specifically Hindu) music and is much a symbol of Indian classical music as violins are of western classical music. Edited October 23, 2018 by leftybassman392 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 hour ago, TheGreek said: A great song killed... When you have nothing nice to say... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Two for the price of one here: some feet and a broken bottle. Story goes that Keith couldn't come up with anything to go over what is, essentially, a John Lee Hooker-style stomping blues before the chorus kicks in, so they settled for some footstomps and a few cymbal washes. Perhaps ironically for a Who song, I think it works better this way - I can't really imagine it working with the usual cascade of toms and cymbals that served their other songs so well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 going back to the cowbell... song / cowbell starts about 51 seconds in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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