And those guys weren't familiar with the record. It was a cool copy - it had the poster in it and everything. Chad told us: "We were in Boston and stopped by this record store, and I found this copy of The Man Who Sold The World. It was Chad Channing, who was Nirvana's drummer from 1988-1990, who introduced Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic to Bowie's music. Nirvana recorded this for their 1993 MTV Unplugged performance. If we'd have carried on, it would have been very interesting." We did other songs, too, like 'Watch That Man,' 'Can You Hear Me?' and 'Dodo.' 'The Man Who Sold The World' saved me from a certain niche in my career. Were we ever an item? I'd rather not answer that one, thanks!įor the video, people thought he came up with the androgynous look, but that was all mine. In the studio, Bowie kept telling me to smoke more cigarettes, to give my voice a certain quality. I didn't think 'The Man Who Sold The World' was the greatest song for my voice, but it was such a strong song in itself. He was uber cool at the time and I just wanted to be led by him. You're a great singer.' I didn't think it would happen, but he followed up two days later. And back at the hotel, he said to me, in very heated language, 'I want to make an MF of a record with you. Lulu spoke to Uncut magazine June 2008 about her recording: "I first met Bowie on tour in the early '70s when he invited me to his concert. Bowie produced her version and played saxophone on the track. If you combine the notes and play those notes on the keyboard, you will get to play the keyboard version of the chord given there.The British singer Lulu (" To Sir With Love") recorded this in 1974.
In each chord diagram in the pdf files, there are notes shown at the right hand side of the diagram. The notes can be derived for keyboard chords from the guitar chord diagrams. Though I am giving the chords for guitars, the same can be used for keyboards. There have also been requests for keyboard notes. Please continue to check my youtube video channel regularly or subscribe to the channel for to get notified for future updates.
I will try to add more videos based on these requests as and when I get some free time. Recently, there have been requests for more videos. In the pdf files, I have also added chords arrangement for the songs "Aadhi Thiru Vaarthai", "Enna En Aanandham", "Kaappaar Unnai Kaappaar" and "Kalvari Maamali Oram". For convenience, I am adding the chord diagrams for the chords used in the video at the end of this post.
The written chords can be found in Tamil Christian songs and Tamil Transliterated songs pdf files that can be downloaded from the corresponding tab links on top of this blog page. I have added a new video showing the chords arrangement for the song "Ennai Marava Yesu Naadha". Nowadays even complex layering of various tones can be achieved utilizing more recently available compact amp modelling systems and guitar synthesizers. Additional effects such as delay, chorus, phaser and reverbs can be added based on available options on guitar amplifiers or through effects/multi-effects foot pedals. Typically, increasing the gain/drive on any common guitar amplifiers will facilitate crunchy distorted tones. The simplest tonal variation can be achieved by simply changing the position of the pick-up switches or the tone knobs in an electric guitar. Alternatively, this video also illustrates some possible tonal (utilizing available gadgets/amplifiers) and strumming variations that can be used in any simple song even if you are the only instrumentalist in a small praise/worship session. If there are no piano/keyboard players, one can substitute the initial piano part using an acoustic guitar with the electric/bass guitarists joining later and raising the momentum in the following stanzas.
I start the first stanza with a simple piano patch with a mild strings background (using a guitar synthesizer) and progressively increase the momentum of the sound and rhythm pattern utilizing increasing intensity of distortion and strumming. In the video illustration, I have attempted to start the song with a reasonably mild sound patch and build the momentum as we proceed through the stanzas of the song. While playing such songs as a team involving multiple instrumentalists during worship sessions (say a team involving an acoustic guitarist, an electric guitarist and a keyboard player), it may be good to introduce variations in sounds/rhythm patterns for the various stanzas of the song. Songs like Enna en aanandham do not have a separate chorus (just the stanzas).
The second video is more about the variations that can be introduced using electric guitars/keyboards for such songs.