best instrumentals

[Denmeister99]

okay, for all the instrumental fans out there (like me)

the best instrumental for the pre-rumours era,
no, that's too easy, try the best five

1. full length Madge Sessions #1
Peter is awesome, the all time best jam, also shows why
Danny played rhythm and Pete took lead,
Mick and John drive the song along at breakneck speed

2. easy - Albatross
beautiful song, wonderfully done, ala Shadows
their first #1

3. October Jam #2, a short song with a great heavy sound
just a catchy beat, can't help it if I like it

4. Earl Grey - Danny doing his thing, must be Chris on piano

5. World in Harmony - last song with Pete (in studio)
b side of Green Manalishi - a foreshadowing of the next
album, sadly never to be

well anyway, that's my top five,
what's yours?

[Hawkeye]

Sunny Side of Heaven is my favorite.

[macfan 57]

1)Albatross
2)Sunny Side Of Heaven
3)Earl Gray
4)Caught In The Rain(Bob Weston)
5)My Dream(another Danny Kirwan instrumental)

There are 3 Danny Kirwan songs on my list, he must be the king of the instrumentals.

[wetcamelfood]

Just some off the top of my head:

Underway (full version from "The vaudeville years")
October jam 1 (love the "news bulletin" riff)
Before the beginning (from "...Vaudelville..." AKA "Blues in B flat minor" on TVY)
Coming your way (from "Live in Boston - Remastered Vol. 3")
Book of miracles (the BN (& other "newer"...) lineup(s) should do more instrumentals but probably never will)

There aren't many of their instrumentals I DON'T like, I love all the ones you guys mentined too.

John

[Cristian]

"Caught In The Rain" is my favorite for the reason that it gets you... with that feeling. I love "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues", "Albatross", "Oh Well (Part 2)" and "Sunny Side Of Heaven", too.

When they did instrumentals, they never got them wrong.


Song of the moment - Freedom

[wondergirl9847]

Well, I haven't heard some of the ones listed, but my faves are:

1. Sunny Side of Heaven
2. Albatross
3. Oh Well Part 2
4. World in Harmony
5. My Dream

Danny just rocks at instrumentals!!! I love Book of Miracles too, but ya'll just wanted pre-Rumours...so, there ya have it.

[chiliD]

Not really in any particular order, even though they're numbered (all are familiar titles in this thread)


1) Madge Sessions #1 (I'll have to listen again, but I could swear that it is both Danny AND Peter having a "gunslinger" battle throughout.)

2) Albatross

3) Sunny Side Of Heaven

4) World In Harmony

5) Underway (the full-length version)

6) Oh Well, Part 2

7) Jigsaw Puzzle Blues

8) My Dream

9) Caught In The Rain

10) Book Of Miracles

[becca]

I like My Dream best right now. I just heard World In Harmony for the first time and it is great too!

[chiliD]

Madge Sessions #1:

Danny takes lead @ 3:57

Peter starts riff @ 4:39 which goes into his solo

Danny comes in again with his solo @ 5:48

Both play identical riff @ 6:08

Peter strays to another riff @ 6:15 leading to a solo

@ 6:30 both tear into solos

@ 6:49 Peter takes off

@ 8:15 Danny starts interweaving riffs

@9:31 Danny takes off

@10:00 things settle down

Peter then starts into the familiar riff, then takes off once again until big crash @ 15:15, then Danny & Peter interweave solos to the end.

[Mac Fan]

I've only heard (and like):
Jigsaw Puzzle Blues
Oh Well Part 2
Albatross

[wetcamelfood]

Originally posted by chiliD
Madge Sessions #1:

Danny takes lead @ 3:57

Peter starts riff @ 4:39 which goes into his solo

Danny comes in again with his solo @ 5:48

Both play identical riff @ 6:08

Peter strays to another riff @ 6:15 leading to a solo

@ 6:30 both tear into solos

@ 6:49 Peter takes off

@ 8:15 Danny starts interweaving riffs

@9:31 Danny takes off

@10:00 things settle down

Peter then starts into the familiar riff, then takes off once again until big crash @ 15:15, then Danny & Peter interweave solos to the end.

Great "play by play" (so to speak) on this!

I was thinking, and anyone here can answer this that has heard both the TPO Madges and the full Vaudeville Madge stuff but I only direct this to ChiliD since he's painstakingly gone through it all here for us:

Even though I personally am not much of a "remix" kind of guy, I had noticed they seem to have taken out the "panning" on the solos that existed in the mix on the TPO Madge stuff so I was curious, do you (or anyone else) think it was for the best they took out the panning on the full "Vaudeville" Madge 1 cut or do you think it would have been better with the panning all the way through it like it was on the TPO Madges? (and I only say "full" Madge Vaudeville stuff just because it's more complete that the TPO stuff but I do realize that there are still some bits on the TPO Madges that aren't in Madge 1 etc. so just for the sake of the question, I've asked it "that way" here) I'll be interested to hear some thoughts on this.

John