Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to do a vocal coach reacts to
the Doobie Brothers and I chose "Long Train Runnin'". I actually did have a brief
stint with Skunk Baxter. I got to work with him on a project quite a while ago
back in eighties and just a fantastic guitar player, great songwriter.
Everyone's good singers in the band so that's again its kind of fun to have
where the whole band sings or everyone's great in the band.
By the way too for you musicians out there, you know what it's like to play
with a bunch of crappy players and you just you can't lock and you can't you
know whatever or if you know what it's like to play with a bunch of great
players they push you and push you and push you and they make you great. So with
that said let's do the Doobie Brothers and "Long Train Runnin'". Here we go.
I think you know this one.
Great stuff.
I think I like his mustache best out of this. Kidding. Anyway.
Everybody's great.
Here how tight that band is?
Funky.
Great groove man.
I would have liked to have heard Darryl Mansfield do that, I think he would have
killed on this not that he didn't do a great job, Darryl would have just slayed it,
crushed it.
So funky.
I love the groove the rhythm of it.
That real percussive backbeat.
By the way this is also one of the songs I learned early on guitar but and then I
realized I learned it wrong so I used to just go (sounds) and
I realized the backbeat (sounds) so you go (sounds)
So you have to have this kind of backbeat
grove as you're going through this whole thing and then you gotta sing it at the
same time. So it's pretty hard to do that the guys did a great job on this.
Little pitchy there. Still fun.
It's like it's called "Long Train Runnin'" but it's like a train of music too at
the same time right.
Listen to that energy man. Come on bands today where is this stuff, bring it back come on.
So fun I miss music like this.
It doesn't hurt to have a couple drummers and
percussion at the same time huh.
That is funky man.
That brother ain't messing around.
We're almost over guys.
Alright. That was excellent. Well so good I almost
played it again. Anyway you guys man, all the percussion that's in there, all
the backbeat grooves, everyone playing their begonias off. Like I said I just I
wish that there were more bands today that learned from these guys and
maybe took it to a new level we just have entered in this world of
you know, like a pop and roll and it's just not been or you know I
grunge you know there was two things about grunge. Grunge did a lot for an
emotive thing that I think was really interesting. You know I hate my mom, I
hate my dad. I don't care about tuning my guitar. I just want to get out there and
tell the world how bad I feel but there is something that wasn't so great that
happened from grunge was that it really kind of dumbed down a lot of people from
playing their instruments great and I know how hard that must have been to
come off of you know Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen and all of
these 80s, amazing 80's bands and I think what happened in the grunge era was,
they just went I don't relate to that I'm not even gonna try to do that. That
guy sat in his room for eight hours a
day, you know honing his craft and I just
want to go out and tell the world you know how I feel about it. So they came at
it from a different angle. One was she's my cherry pie in the 80s and and the 90s
it was like you know I feel so depressed I want to kill myself so and there
was a lot to be said for that too because there's a lot of people that
felt that way...the kids that felt that way. Anyway, thank you for joining me
Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing
and until next time, peace out.
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