Re: Me doing a bunch of Tull Covers
2013/06/11 18:18:34
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These Rock Camp For Dads are great (at least in my opinion). Granted it is pay to play but you get quite a bit for it. Since moving to MN and not having a physical (brick and mortar if you will) band, these camps have been my gigging outlet.
This was an interesting camp … doing a whole bunch of Tull covers at one time. Over the years I have played many covers but never did “tribute bands”. Now I’ve done several of them including a Zep and a Who camp.
Here are my thoughts and observations on Tull vs. Zep vs. The Who .. and my apologies
for probably stating the obvious but I have always been a Tull fan … just never learned a lot of their material. The Tull songs are lyrically cerebral like Townshend’s writing and the arrangements seem to mirror those of Who songs (e.g., the use of cut time when going from verse to chorus) but the syncopated grooves are very Zeppelinesque. For example, compare Tull’s “Teacher” to “Who Are You”, the choruses in both these tunes go to cut time with a very straight rock beat but the verse section of “Who Are You” is a straight beat with very Moon like fills but the verse section in “Teacher” is essentially devoid of long fills but grooves in a very Bonham fashion. The thing that makes the Tull drumming Moon-like is the 8th note bass drum going through many of the fills or essentially the fill itself.
It would be interesting to get a guitarist’s or bassist’s perspective.
Dave
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