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YAY! SUNDAY COVERS AGAIN! (D'oh)!) (There's A Good Guru)

Posted over 2 years ago
Donovan Leitch was one of the first of the 'new Dylans' to emerge in the master's wake. His "Catch The Wind" seemed to be a reply to Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind", and his recording of Buffy Ste Marie's "Universal Soldier" further cemented his reputation as a new 'spokesman for a generation'.His sound developed and blossomed in the emerging psychedelic scene, and with Jimmy Page on guitar he turned in one of the genre's pop masterpieces "Hurdy Gurdy Man".I had always assumed that the tremelo in Donovan's voice, Particularly on "H. G. M". was the result of some studio trickery, but I guess I was wrong.This Live acoustic track features a delightful little Beatle tale and is quite a neat gem.Listen and see if his little anecdote doesn't precisely nail Lennon"s personality.
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  1. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says Jimmy Page played guitar on hurdy gurdy man? i never knew learn something new eveyday
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  2. dermahrk
    dermahrk says Donovan was, of course, no Dylan (for which he got ribbed unmercifully in "Don't Look Back"), but he produced a hell of a lot of good music in the 1960s. I have all of his early folky stuff, as well as the psychedelic Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow and the Hurdy Gurdy album. But when I spent a lot of minimum-wage money for "Gift From a Flower to A Garden", a double-LP set that was crapalicious, our relationship ended. He has returned to recording these days, but the tracks I've sampled are not very good. Still, I love that early stuff. Thanks, DMDM!
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  3. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says You know PIMP, I'd heard that there were folks out there who didn't know, but I'd assumed it was another urban legend. Mark, I like a lot of Donavan's music, but he was spoonfed so he'd feel more assured, then they killed him with self confidence after poisoning him with words.
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  4. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says i am trying to find info now
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  5. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says Contrary to popular belief, neither Jimmy Page nor John Bonham played on the song. However, on page 7 of the 40-page booklet that came with Donovan's 1992 double CD, Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 lists Allan Holdsworth and Jimmy Page as the electric guitar players and John Bonham and Clem Cattini as playing the drums on "Hurdy Gurdy Man." According to John Paul Jones, who arranged and played bass on the track (he also booked the session players), Clem Cattini played the drums and Alan Parker played the electric guitar.[3] However, while performing the song in concert, Donovan often refers to the guitar solo on the recording as being played by Jimmy Page. i dunno http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurdy_Gurdy_Man
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  6. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1097
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  7. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Well all that may or may not be so, I cannot say difinitively and I say this without malice, bile, or insult, but I really do not care enough to dig that far. (right now). All I know is I like Hurdy Gurdy Man. Donovan's OK too. Pimp you're a hot shit! While you're diggin' around, can you find me the song title and artist for a mid-seventies song (british I think) with a brief refrain that goes .."You'd better ride on baby, you were born outside of the law"? I don't know where to go to find such things.
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  8. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says i do not recognize it and google does not either BASTURDS
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  9. Marigold
    Marigold says .....i kinda feel hurdy and gurdy.
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  10. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says BTW: I couldn't get the wife to try the humongous fungus, OR explore the enigmatic tunnel with no visible purpose or end. What a coward, huh?
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  11. Marigold
    Marigold says I can see you two dressed in your D&D costumes heading out on the adventure thru the demonic forbidden cave. You could be the Magician and she the Ranger.
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  12. dermahrk
    dermahrk says Fungus? I assumed that was a giant magic mushroom and you'd be several miles into the stratosphere by now....
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  13. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Oh man, busted again.
    Permalink posted 10/07/2007
  14. Bona Tom
    Bona Tom says

    Did you find, "Runn, run, run".  If not, hope this helps:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRV1pPH7Cs

    F

    Permalink posted 11/14/2008

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