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Posts Tagged ‘led zeppelin’
Passing the Torch
Remedy returns to the Fred on Friday, May 7th to officially kick off the venue’s 2010 ‘Open Mic’ night competition. As last year’s winner of the competition, we won’t be allowed to participate in this year’s competition but have been given the opportunity to get the crowd fired up in preparation for the rest of the evening’s participants. Showcasing a wide variety of local talent in all musical genre’s, the Fred will be hosting the annual event for the second year, and hopes to garner a tremendous amount of interest from local bands and residents. In addition to opening the event, we’ll also have the honor of serving as a guest judge as well.
Playing at the Fred was the highlight of 2009 for the band and we look forward to playing at the venue once again and passing the torch to another great local band. Here’s a recap of our 2009 performance at the Fred.
To view photos from the event, be sure to visit the Remedy photo gallery.
Bring It On Home
Collectively, there’s not a single guy in the band that doesn’t love Zeppelin. And aside from Andy Buchanan, who staunchly defends his designation of Neil Peart as the greatest drummer of all time, we recognize each Zeppelin member at their respective positions as being among the best at what they do. With that heavy praise in mind, it might come as a surprise to know that we currently only feature one Zeppelin tune in our set list.
We’ve been moderately limited with the selection of Zeppelin songs we could cover as a great number of them are so well known and revered and we’ve been reluctant to try and cover them unless we were confident in our ability to do them justice. Plant’s voice alone, for instance, keeps me from comfortably singing about 50%-60% of the songs they play!
It’s with great excitement then, Remedy has decided to cover a heavy hitting Zeppelin tune entitled ‘Bring It On Home,’ originally released in 1969 on the Zeppelin II album. At 4:20 seconds long, the song features a bluesy intro and outro, with a bone crushing guitar lick that carries listeners through a very short musical roller coaster ride in between. The intro and outro were deliberate homages to the original Sonny Boy Williamson song, while the rest of the track was an original Jimmy Page/Robert Plant composition.
With fair amounts of reasonably intricate harmonica parts and guitar parts that feature both lead and rhythm sections, the song should prove to be a substantial challenge for the band but an extremely rewarding song to cover at the same time.
In case you’ve not heard the song before, have a quick listen and be sure to brace yourself for the guitar intro!
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Drift Away
Utilizing the talents of our newly added keyboard player, Remedy has decided to add a bit more keyboard-driven material to the play list by learning the Dobie Gray classic, ‘Drift Away’. Chris takes the lead on the vocals, with Andy and Tim picking up the harmonies. In addition, the song provides Chris with an opportunity to showcase his keyboard skills as well, with subtle but distinct melodies throughout the tune.
The song provides just a taste of what you’ll be hearing at future gigs as we continue to expand our play list, now nearly 80 songs deep, featuring a wide variety of songs that either spotlight piano and keys or serve as great accompaniment to the driving guitar-driven songs the band is known for playing.
Be sure to let us know what you think with a comment below!