Rock genre songs with mandolin

[Larry R]

How many can we name ?

Battle of Evermore, Gallows Pole, Going To California by Led Zeppelin
Mandolin Wind, Maggie May by Rod Stewart
Please,Please,Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths
Losing My Religion by REM
Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts
Sitting by Cat Stevens

[Chris "Bucket" Thomas]

My prediction:

Niles H. will provide the definitive list within 24 hours.

[Rob Zamites]

Not really a "rock" song per se, but Mike Oldfield's "Taurus 1" off the "QE2" release has a really sweet mandolin intro!

[Klaus Wutscher]

My prediction:

Niles H. will provide the definitive list within 24 hours.
I think he did that already a couple of times, if memory serves. I would suggest to check the archives. There used to be en extensive thread on the topic.

Of course, when it comes to mandolin and rock, Niles is the man!

[John Flynn]

But its less fun when Niles provides all the answers. It's like playing Trivial Pursuit with a guy who is a trivia buff. You might as well not even be in the game!

One that comes to mind for me is The Hooter's live cover of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" on the "Hooterization" album. The signature lead-in line the Beatles did with a synthesizer, the Hooters do with a mando, and it sounds great. I think they use mando on a couple other tracks on that album also, I'll have to go back and check.

Another one I like is Stevie Winwood playing mando on "Back in the High Life."

[Klaus Wutscher]

Agreed!

Jethro Tull: "Christmas Song", "Fat Man"

Sting "All this Time" (Soul cages)

Neil Young "Too far gone"

The Byrds "Take a whiff on me" "Sweet Mary"

Manassas "So many times"

NGDB "Mr. Bojangles"

[Klaus Wutscher]

Spinal Tap "Stonehenge"

[mandocrucian]

My prediction:

Niles H. will provide the definitive list within 24 hours

No. You'll get more out the 'game' if you think/puzzle it out. Just like learning a tune off a CD rather than asking for a tab of it will have greater benefits. It's not the answer that is really important, it is the process of getting to the answer(s).

Have fun!

NH

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>PS: Since you're listing rock stuff w/mando, why don't you also list rock stuff with (prominant) flute? (Other than Jethro Tull, of course - cause I've got most of their stuff already. #I figured if I tried starting that thread here under it's own heading, it'd get deleted for being too non-mando, but maybe I can sneak it in the back door.

Thanks! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

BTW: Here's a non-Tull track with both mando and flute -
Johnny Winter - Too Much Seconal</span>

[PseudoCelt]

"Country Girl" by Primal Scream, from last year.

Not sure it was released in the US, tho'

Patrick

[jefflester]

PS: Since you're listing rock stuff w/mando, why don't you also list rock stuff with (prominant) flute? (Other than Jethro Tull, of course - cause I've got most of their stuff already. #I figured if I tried starting that thread here under it's own heading, it'd get deleted for being too non-mando, but maybe I can sneak it in the back door.
Ann Wilson played flute with Heart, but offhand I can't think of any particular songs other than "Love Alive" off of Little Queen. They used to kick off shows in 1976 or so with a nice jamming instrumental with lots of flute.

Little Queen also featured some nice mandolin work from Nancy Wilson and Roger Fisher on "Sylvan Song" and "Dream of the Archer."

[cooper4205]

they don't play it, but Of, Montreal has a mando featured in their new video on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VeIL7juFE0). be forewarned, its a pretty weird video; not really my cup of tea but i just happened upon it

[Klaus Wutscher]

Niles,

the first 3 King Crimson albums (21st Century schizoid man, in the court of the Crimson King and Lizard (?)) have a lot of flute playing (I talk to the wind, Cadence and Cascades and others). Great stuff!

[Klaus Wutscher]

How could I forget?

Traffic: John Barleycorn must die

[mandocrucian]

Klaus,

I've got the first two Crimson records (In The Court Of The Crimson King, In The Wake of Poseidon and have "I Talk To The Wind", "Moonchild" (edit) and "Cadence & Cascade" on a flute mix cdr, along with "John Barleycorn" and "40,000 Headmen", some early Van Morrison ("Moondance", "Everyone", "Astral Weeks"), and other stuff.

Can't find my copy of Best of Canned Heat for "Goin' Up The Country" though.

NH

Don't have any Focus albums. #Did Gentle Giant use flute?

[Jason Kessler]

No flute on Gentle Giant records, but there are some recorders.

Re some of the above-mentioned tunes, I don't think that was a mandolin on Tull's, "Fat Man;" it sounds more like a middle-eastern thing such as an oud. Maybe even a balalaika.

Plenty of flute, courtesy of Chris Wood, on all of Traffic's albums.

Nudging the thread back towards mando content: "Holiday Inn," off of Elton John's, "Madman Across the Water."

[mandocrucian]

I don't think that was a mandolin on Tull's, "Fat Man;"

I'm not sure about the instrument used on the version on Stand Up.

However on the Aqualung (remastered CD) one of the three bonus tracks (1968/69 BBC radio) was "Fat Man" with mando. It's also on the live (2001-02) Living With The Past CD #with IA playing mandolin.

I've got an#XM Live 8-3-03 Tull show with IA playing mando on the song. I saw them in St. Pete, FL on the Broadsword tour and they did the tune, dressed up as bums sitting on park bench, with 2 (or 3) mandos (IA, Dave Pegg, Martin Barre) and bongos.

NH

[Walter Newton]

Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers plays mandolin on their song "Bulldozers and Dirt".

[tree]

Marshall Tucker Band for flute content.

(Ducking behind shield) Bill Monroe's later version of Were You There is rock and roll mandolin playing in my book. #I think that's where Chuck Berry could have gotten the basic idea for his signature guitar lick, anyway. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

Second Steve Winwood's mando on High Life, that is a favorite of mine.

[mrmando]

Rock/pop hits with flute:

Men at Work - Down Under
Firefall - You Are the Woman

[Larry R]

I listened to John Barleycorn this morning, and I can't hear a mandolin in it.

[Klaus Wutscher]

I listened to John Barleycorn this morning, and I can't hear a mandolin in it.
Definitely no mando, I was referring to the flute as per Niles request. Of course, I got the King Crimson record names all wrong; but hey, it´s been quite some time.

[Andrew Lewis]

The Byrds "Take a whiff on me" #"Sweet Mary"
Just listened to Take a Whiff. Great song (recently covered by OCMS) Any ideas who's playing that mando?

I ask because it wouldn't surprise me if Dawg's doin' it. Didn't he kinda run in those circles?

[mandocrucian]

Byrds (UNTITLED) "Truck Stop Girl" #Clarence White # # #
Byrds (UNTITLED) "You All Look Alike" Clarence White # #
Byrds THE NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS "Draft Morning" #Chris Hillman, crosspicked rolls, easily mistaken for 12-string guitar

'Kelpie' Jetro tull.
Lots of Tull for that matter has mando..

[Andrew Lewis]

Thanks, Niles.

[Larry R]

That I know for sure without guessing, because I've been wrong before.

Sunnyside Of The Street
The Ghost Of A Smile
The House Of The Gods (love playing the intro)
Five Green Queens And Jean
Six To Go
How Come
When The Ship Comes In
Love You Till The End
Bright Lights
Oretown
Tosspint
Where The Love's Been Gone
The Sun And The Moon

All by the Pogues

[Paul F]

Ripple by the Grateful Dead. Am I the first to mention this one?

[Larry R]

Just noticed there's some nice Italian style mandolin playing on Mott The Hoople's "I Wish I Was Your Mother" courtesy of Mick Ralphs later of Bad Company.

[Jim MacDaniel]

The Waterboys' Fisherman's Blues is a classic mando tune.

[James P]

Cooder's "Look at Granny Run" brings it.

Edit to add: #
His solo on "Solar Sex Panel" from the Little Village album!!!

(Seriously, fire that up and tell me again that any of this pop stuff RAWKS.) #
[/Jack Black voice]

Just listening to "Knockin' on Mine" on Paul Westerberg's 14 Songs and there's some painfully out of tune mandolin. [repressing the JB voice inside]

[Larry R]

Runnin Blue by the Doors.

[Larry R]

Mona Lisa's and Madhatters by Elton John. The mandolin part is played by David Johnstone.

[powercat]

To add to a previous post concerning the group, The Hooters, they have a generous amount of mandolin in most of the tunes on their greatest hits album "Super Hits". If I remember correctly from listening to them last night, this would include:

All You Zombies
And We Danced
Johnny B.
500 Miles
Day By Day

And also "Where do the Children Go" from Nervous night.

My wife gets the 80's rock she craves (okay, I like it too), and I get mandolin. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif