Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:00 am
by goofyfoot
1 ~ What is your favorite winter holiday song to play?
2 ~ Why?
3 ~ Which Rickenbacker stringed instrument do you prefer strapping on when you play this tune?
1 ~ "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (Composed by Haven Gillespie & J. Fred Coots, 1934)
2 ~ I dig the chord changes in the verse (e.g., C-C7-F-Bb7-C-C7-F-Bb7----Em-Am-Dm-G7-Ab-Db)
2 ~ I dig the chord changes in the bridge (e.g., Gm-C7-F-D7-Gm-C7-F-Am-D7-G-E7-Am-D7-Dm)
3 ~ 360/6 Montezuma Brown with 7.4k-ohm Toasters® plugged into a Rivera or Fender tube amp on a clean setting.
My amigo Octavio and I played this version last week while our middle-schoolers joined in singing this jazzier version. He was on tenor sax and I accompanied him on my Martin HD-28. Yeah, man, it was sort of funny. The typical middle-school resistance of "we're-too-cool-to-sing-these-tunes" soon dissipated when the rapscallions saw how much fun these two knuckleheaded teachers were having singing traditional holiday songs. The spirit of the season had invaded our bods!
Peace, out.....Goofyfoot.
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:40 pm
by jingle_jangle
"Little Saint Nick" by the Beach Boys...on my 730L/12, with my daughter singing along with me. Monday evening.
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:41 am
by goofyfoot
jingle_jangle wrote:"Little Saint Nick" by the Beach Boys...on my 730L/12, with my daughter singing along with me. Monday evening.
Aaahhh, now THAT'S the holiday spirit in full bloom, Jingle_Jangle. BTW, it looks like I'll be driving up 101 from L.A. to the Bay Area in the wet stuff tomorrow. I see it's been soggy in your neck of the woods of late.
Hydroplaning my way to gawd's country,
Goofyfoot
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:06 pm
by JakeK
jingle_jangle wrote:"Little Saint Nick" by the Beach Boys...on my 730L/12, with my daughter singing along with me. Monday evening.
Paul, ever tried playing that on your 360/12 Carl Wilson? It is a good song, though. One of my favorite holiday tunes.
If I ever found online tabs/chords to Tom Petty's "It's Christmas All Over Again", I'm sure that would be my favorite holiday tune. Simply because I love TP. I'd play it on my trusty 1997
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:16 pm
by sloop_john_b
After getting a lot of requests from my students for Christmas songs this season, I bought a book and have been annoying my friends with Christmas songs for most of this month.
"Jingle Bell Rock" sounds sweet on a '59 Capri I "happen to have here" (some wonderful jazzy chords in there), but the real highlight has been a piano arrangement of "My Favorite Things", sort of a Julie Andrews/John Coltrane hybrid. Sounds nice on my new Rhodes.
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:40 pm
by collin
Alas, my favorite Christmas tune has little guitar in it - The chipmunks "Christmas song"
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:21 pm
by jdogric12
Dude, you broke down and got a Rhodes??? Cool!
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:39 pm
by sloop_john_b
jdogric12aolcom wrote:Dude, you broke down and got a Rhodes??? Cool!
I did! I am actually gigging with it this Sunday.
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:14 pm
by hjarnett
hey john when did you get your hands on a capri? and we must have pic's
Re: Your Fave Winter Holiday Tune, Why, & With Which Ric?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:25 pm
by fireglo
This is my favorite Christmas tune. He was still in wings, so it might be the Rickenbacker bass.
