Chicken Shack Live

[Gypsycat999]

Hi all,
I'm wondering if any of you has live stuff by Chicken Shack and would be so kind to share it?? I'd absolutely love to hear it!
Much thanks in advance.

[goldustsongbird]

Chicken Shack, 1968 BBC Sessions: 1968: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?om0tmohx4hm

[Gypsycat999]

Thank you sooooooo much!! You made my day :xoxo:!

[goldustsongbird]

Thank you sooooooo much!! You made my day :xoxo:!

Anytime. :D

[Gypsycat999]

If someone has more...it would be awesome if you'd post :nod:. I'm dying on Chicken Shack stuff.

[jbrownsjr]

Chris's playing on some of these is amazing...

[aleuzzi]

Chris's playing on some of these is amazing...

And her voice is in very good shape. She had some trouble with live vocals from 1970-72, maybe from trying to make the transition from straight-ahead blues to rock. Still, back in 69 she sounded amazing live.

[jbrownsjr]

And her voice is in very good shape. She had some trouble with live vocals from 1970-72, maybe from trying to make the transition from straight-ahead blues to rock. Still, back in 69 she sounded amazing live.

I love this period for her!!

[nicepace]

Thanks for posting this. I enjoy hearing Chris' blues playing. I agree that her singing is very good on these recordings too. It was sweet hearing the announcer call her "Christine Perfect." Did she write all of the songs she sings in this recording?

[aleuzzi]

She wrote all of the ones she sang except Mean Old World.

[macpai]

Thanks! Very cool. :thumbsup:

[David]

Thanks for posting this. I enjoy hearing Chris' blues playing. Her style, particularly her left hand with its metronomic rhythm pattern on the shuffles of pinky+thumb doing the I+V --> I+VI, reminds me more & more of that of Bob Hall.

I know about her deliberate study & simulation of Freddie King's playing, but I've always wanted to ask her whether she copied Bob Hall, too. They play exactly alike. It's uncanny.

I think I once e-mailed Bob Hall & asked him something or other, but he thought I was weird.

[jbrownsjr]

I think I once e-mailed Bob Hall & asked him something or other, but he thought I was weird.

And see, that's what I love about you.....

otherwise... it's just boring...

[nicepace]

I think I once e-mailed Bob Hall & asked him something or other, but he thought I was weird.

How did you know that's what he thought? (LOL) Did he write you back and say, David man, you're one weird dude?

By the way, where can I hear Bob Hall so that I can listen to his uncannily Christine-like piano?

[David]

How did you know that's what he thought? (LOL) Did he write you back and say, David man, you're one weird dude?Oh, you just know ... know what I mean?

By the way, where can I hear Bob Hall so that I can listen to his uncannily Christine-like piano?Listen to the Tramp album with "Month of Sundays," "What You Gonna Do" & "Baby What You Want Me to Do."

Bob & Chris play the same licks, which is less remarkable than the fact that they consistently play them in the same way -- emphasis on mimicking the bass line, highly repetitive figuration (sometimes to the point of rhythmic hypnosis), at the hind end of the beat, etc. Their respective pianos are recorded dry, with the same placement in the mix (which is probably their preference). They even play trills identically (to fill the count for the bar, for example, usually after the main blues lick or run is done) & with the same tripping (slightly unsure) touch!

They're both probably extremely influenced by Sonny Thompson.

[jbrownsjr]

Oh, you just know ... know what I mean?

Listen to the Tramp album with "Month of Sundays," "What You Gonna Do" & "Baby What You Want Me to Do."

Bob & Chris play the same licks, which is less remarkable than the fact that they consistently play them in the same way -- emphasis on mimicking the bass line, highly repetitive figuration (sometimes to the point of rhythmic hypnosis), at the hind end of the beat, etc. Their respective pianos are recorded dry, with the same placement in the mix (which is probably their preference). They even play trills identically (to fill the count for the bar, for example, usually after the main blues lick or run is done) & with the same tripping (slightly unsure) touch!

They're both probably extremely influenced by Sonny Thompson.


Her solo at the end of Crystal has that slightly unsure feel to me... that is what I call Masterpiece soloing... it just takes me to the beach where I watch the sea rolling in and out.... (i'm dead serious about this) she really makes me feel what LB is singing and what SN wrote...

[aleuzzi]

Her solo at the end of Crystal has that slightly unsure feel to me... that is what I call Masterpiece soloing... it just takes me to the beach where I watch the sea rolling in and out.... (i'm dead serious about this) she really makes me feel what LB is singing and what SN wrote...

When you say slightly unsure, I know what you mean. I sense it comes from discovering what she's playing as she's playing it...that organ solo on Crystal is excellent because it sounds as if she's realizing the possibilities while she's filling the space...

[jbrownsjr]

When you say slightly unsure, I know what you mean. I sense it comes from discovering what she's playing as she's playing it...that organ solo on Crystal is excellent because it sounds as if she's realizing the possibilities while she's filling the space...

I don't think that's an organ.... I think she borrowed this keyboard from a guy in the studio... David???

[Alan Olson]

Y'all might like this.....

It is a link to a free download of a live performance of Chicken Shack with Cristine and the sound is pretty good.

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/c.html

I Hope the link works....

-Al