It's a great intro. The Stones should have thought about having more violins in their songs. Heh, but YOU are the one with His Fiddling Lordship in your band.

Unbelievable - epic! Had no idea Jaz Coleman had it in him!  Great mix too - some kind of sonic alchemy going on there 

First playlist

My edit of a killer Bobby Keys track from his rare 1972 solo album, recorded in London.

Altar Rock

My edit of "Peter's Trip" from the soundtrack of mid 60s movie THE TRIP. Played by Electric Flag.

Peter's Trip (edit)

Track 5 of the new Waterboys album AN APPOINTMENT WITH MR YEATS, to be released 19 September 2011.

The girl goes dancing there
on the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth grass of the garden
escaped from her bitter youth
escaped from out of her crowd 
and her black cloud

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer

If men come from the house
to lead her away please do not say she is crazy
lead them gently astray
let her finish the dance
finish the dance

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer

She sings as the moon sings     
I am I, I am I
the greater grows my light
the further shall I fly 
I hear the wind a-blow
I hear the grass a-grow
And all that I know
I know, I know    

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer

The girl goes dancing there
on the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth grass of the garden
let her finish the dance
let her finish the dance
finish the dance

Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer
Ah dancer, ah sweet dancer


Acoustic Guitar: Mike Scott
Piano: James Hallawell
Fiddle: Steve Wickham
Drums: Ralph Salmins
Earth Resonator: Marc Arciero
8-string Bouzoukis, Electric Guitar, Voice: Mike Scott
Voice: Katie Kim
Voice: Freddie Stevenson
Harmonica: Steve Wickham
Tambourine: Ralph Salmins
Sax: Kate St John
Flute: Sarah Allen


SWEET DANCER

from The Jimmy Cake album 'Spectre & Crown'

The Jimmy Cake – Last Breath

O'Neill's March by Sean O Riada and Ceoltoiri Chualann, from the 1969 album O Riada Sa Gaiety, running backwards and forwards simultaneously, and mashed with rock'n'roll elements.


Mighty March

Zargosa

The intro and outro of "Is Trua nach bhfuil me in Eirinn", from the first Bothy Band album, edited together, then played both forwards and reversed at the same time, with the reverse band in the distance and to the right, behind the forwards band.  I know I should get out more, but I love the strange hazy pagan woodland orchestra this mash-up makes.

Bothy Band Both Ways

my lonesome prairie version of the great Arvo Part tune.

Spiegel im Spiegel

st jude : Later (Ghost mix)

Souped up fandango version with good rolling bassline - still missing my fade outro metaphysical rant which I shout as I drive through the gloaming

st jude : Later (Heaven to Mars version)

The intro to the Rolling Stones 1969 track Gimme Shelter is one of the greatest moments in rock'n'roll. Its sonic architecture is based around Keith Richards' modal-tuned guitar figures and it conjures a mood of imminent danger or doom.  Yet it feels great.  Well...so does danger sometimes.


In the 1990s I came across an album of Stones music performed by The London Symphony Orchestra, and the version of Gimme Shelter was arranged by Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke.  He did a pretty good job too; the mood of imminent chaos was accurately rendered even with the sedate classical sound of a full orchestra.


Last year, while creating a mix mash of instrumental music to be played before Waterboys shows, I synched the two versions - Stones' original and LSO treatment - and this is the result.  I did the whole song, in fact, though I found the bulk of the song works better without orchestra, just as nature and Keef intended.


But the Stones-and-orchestra intro came out great.  Play it loud and feel the mood of impending danger close round you - in a virtual way, of course.


Gimme Shelter (orchestrated intro)

These are songs and mash-ups from my home studio. Some feature The Waterboys, some just me, some are other stuff. 

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Gimme Shelter (orchestrated intro)

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