White Bird. Let's Mando the White Bird.

[WinslowD]

I am a long time lurker. My first post is the White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day. The violin in this is so remarkable. A new interretation on mando? Everybody. Just listen and keep on keepin' on. Like a Bird That Flew. Don't forget to watch. Let me know when you're down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0J77CRMeTA

[dwilken]

oh my god!!!! just saw this. white bird. what a great tune and what a great/under rated band. i'm at work now. can't wait to get home and see this!!!!! thanks in advance.

[WinslowD]

I'm getting there on this. Just trying to work up a good mando solo using tremolo.

[journeybear]

David LaFlamme is still around. Someone posted a clip of him playing mandolin, a year or so ago.

[WinslowD]

I knew he was still playing violin but I have never seen or heard him on mando. Do you have a link?

[journeybear]

There was a video posted in another thread a while back. Hold on just a sec ...

OK - here is that thread. (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?51666) And obviously I misremembered - David LaFlamme is playing violin and Philip Lawrence is playing mandolin. Sorry. :redface:


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[Strado Len]

Sam Bush did an excellent cover of White Bird on his Laps in Seven cd, including original vocalist/violinist Andrea Zorn. Check out the synth/banjo which sounds like an electric organ!

[phillawrencemandolin]

Hi: David LaFlamme has been playing in my hot swing band for about two years at a local venue in Sebastopol, Northern California. In his honor I recorded an experimental version of White Bird, solo, in my home studio. He's still a great player and lots of fun to hang with. He still plays with It's a Beautiful Day. This summer he is playing at the Isle of Wight Festival. April 1 and 2 coming up we are playing in Sebastopol. Here's a link to my unfinished sketch of White Bird done on solo mandolin: http://phillawrence.com/White%20Bird.mp3

And here's a link to my website where you can poke around and see videos and hear audios etc. http://phillawrence.com/home.html

Cheers,
Phil Lawrence


There was a video posted in another thread a while back. Hold on just a sec ...

OK - here is that thread. (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?51666) And obviously I misremembered - David LaFlamme is playing violin and Philip Lawrence is playing mandolin. Sorry. :redface:


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[journeybear]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that. Kind of like a raga. Nice little quote from Jimi, too. Cool. :cool:

[phillawrencemandolin]

The raga idea was part of a project I completed last winter called Mandolin Ragas in which I take American fiddle tunes and play them as if they were ragas with tabla accompaniment and tanpura drone. My next project may be to take classic songs from the sixties and do the same sort of thing. White Bird was a tribute to my friend David Laflamme and an experiment along that line of thinking. Check out: http://phillawrence.com/RecordingsDream.html


Very cool! Thanks for sharing that. Kind of like a raga. Nice little quote from Jimi, too. Cool. :cool:

[journeybear]

Interesting project. Shows there are always new ways to reimagine the classics. Nice bit of humor in the titles - with a name like "Will You Go, Lakshmi, Go?" or "Angeline the Buddha" one can guess what might be in store. ;) I did something similar in spirit but different in execution last year - my entry in the Whiskey Before Breakfast Challenge (there's a thread here somewhere). I slowed it waaay down and did it Vanilla Fudge/Robin Trower style, on the MandoBird, with distortion and wah-wah. But I don't want to veer further off track here. Just saying, there are indeed more than one or one dozen ways to skin these cats. ;)

[WinslowD]

Wow thank you so much. The song is so beautiful that you can't go wrong with any interpretatiom of the melody. What I have worked up is very similar to this only a a little faster. This song is nothing short of a masterpiece.

White Bird must fly or she will die.