[dadfad]

Updated 9/15/06 with new link.

Several guys here have wanted to hear some of the tunes played by John Jackson but sometimes found it difficult to find his stuff for sale. Or didn't have the extra money to shell out for a CD, and I understand that. I've d/l'ed a few of his tunes (seven to be exact) onto a SoundClick bandpage I'd had set up already for demonstrating a tune awhile back. I know I'm not supposed to do that, but I did it anyway. Anyone who wants to hear them or d/l them, here is the address NEW LINK 9/15/06 to do so. I allowed copying, etc. of the tunes. The last tune on the page (entitled My Police Dog Blues) is not one of his tunes but merely me playing several rounds of Blind Blake's tune using a cheap-program to demonstrate the tune to someone, so ignore that tune. The other seven are John's. I noticed sometimes (but not always) the tunes played back better in lo-fi than in hi-fi. I don't know why. Maybe it's just my computer, or whatever. I don't know. Anyway...

I'm only going to leave those tunes up temporarily, because I know I'm not supposed to. Copyrighted material, etc, etc, etc, blah-blah-blah. John is dead. So is his wife and son. His heirs don't need the few pennies the royalties for sales might generate. I know if John were alive he'd be glad to do it himself. He believed the music was meant to be shared and, as he told me the first time I ever met him many years ago, "Just pass it on."

I hope you like them.

[simonlewis07]

thanks dadfad, thats some quality stuff there.

[dadfad]

No problem. I plan to do similar things with some other hard-to-find stuff by him and other artists. I have an entire live John Jackson concert I recorded around 1986 using (at that time) state-of-the-art portable Fostex analog equipment which I now have copied to a CD (I have several more of his complete in-concert live things on metal-tape.) As soon as I take the time to break it up (it's now just one extremely long single track-number that is too large of a file to copy to SoundClick) I'll put that up. And other things too.

Anyway, this first one is a start at trying to pass along some good but hard-to-find examples of good music. I hope you like it.

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Are they the complete songs John or just bits?

[dadfad]

One of those tunes is on my to-do list of tabs. The tune "Diddy Wah Diddy." It's several tunes from the top but I hope to get to it before long.




(So many tunes, so little time in a day. Or a life... )

[dadfad]

Are they the complete songs John or just bits?

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Complete tunes, Adam.

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Are they the complete songs John or just bits?

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Complete tunes, Adam.

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Cheers just i had the regester to download the bastards and all. Wanted to know it was worth it as i hate signing up for stuff. All done now downloaded and will be copyed to CD straight away .

[annoying_2001]

john,

thanks. this is very cool.

[JohnnyBeGood]

Hi dadfad, I guess I'm late getting here but thanks for the links I'm down loading them now

[olduvai]

Thank you very much!!

[RICH.J]

Brilliant. I'll download them on my other broadband connection tomorrow.

Look forward to listening to them.

[JohnnyBeGood]

Excellent tunes dadfad Thankyou

[Claptonman]

How would you download them from soundclick?

[annoying_2001]

first you have to join.
then click on his link (if you're not there already)
click on "mp3"
save to disk (which means save it to your computer somewhere)
and wait for it to download
then listen and enjoy.

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[dman1337]

i keep getting confused with jack johnson and john jackson

[markigta]

Thanks mate, classic tunes. I love it

Anyone gonna tab these or are there already tabs out there?

[dadfad]

Thanks mate, classic tunes. I love it

Anyone gonna tab these or are there already tabs out there?

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You're welcome! He did a lot of tremendous stuff. There are no decent tabs around (to my knowledge) of his material. It's pretty difficult stuff to tab. I've done a tab or two of tunes he played but none of the ones there. I plan to do one of them soon though, the tune "Diddy Wah Diddy." When I get it done I'll post it here. I have a couple of other tunes by others I'm working on now, but when I get them done I'll work on that one and post it.

[markigta]

Thanks mate, classic tunes. I love it

Anyone gonna tab these or are there already tabs out there?

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You're welcome! He did a lot of tremendous stuff. There are no decent tabs around (to my knowledge) of his material. It's pretty difficult stuff to tab. I've done a tab or two of tunes he played but none of the ones there. I plan to do one of them soon though, the tune "Diddy Wah Diddy." When I get it done I'll post it here. I have a couple of other tunes by others I'm working on now, but when I get them done I'll work on that one and post it.

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I appreciate that old chap. You are a spiffingly good man Gotta a brigadeer vibe goin on today

That one and matchbox blue are my faves from the ones there. Great sound.

Thanks again

[dadfad]

Matchbox is a great one. The version I do myself of that tune is not too different from John's version but I tend to go a little more toward the old Blind Lemon Jefferson version. I have lots of live recordings by John Jackson as well as all of his commercially recorded stuff. One concert I have, when he was feeling a little... er... adventurous... he did an incredible descending run in the guitar break which actually got him a standing ovation from the crowd. I plan to post that entire live performance as soon as I can re-record it breaking it down from a single very long CD-track into several tracks small enough to be accepted by SoundClick. In any case, Matchbox is a great tune.


(Snaps a sharp salute to the Brigadeer! )

[markigta]

Matchbox is a great one. The version I do myself of that tune is not too different from John's version but I tend to go a little more toward the old Blind Lemon Jefferson version. I have lots of live recordings by John Jackson as well as all of his commercially recorded stuff. One concert I have, when he was feeling a little... er... adventurous... he did an incredible descending run in the guitar break which actually got him a standing ovation from the crowd. I plan to post that entire live performance as soon as I can re-record it breaking it down from a single very long CD-track into several tracks small enough to be accepted by SoundClick. In any case, Matchbox is a great tune.


(Snaps a sharp salute to the Brigadeer! )

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That'd be brilliant to hear I've only just started listening to the old blues stuff(dont know its proper name ) but some of the tabs you've done are excellent. I've been dabbling in the THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAG tab that you recently did. Gonna take me alot of time, sweat and blood to get that down. I think i'll give WEST COAST BLUES as pass at this moment in time. How fast is that? Talk about overwhelming

Going to put them on a CD and put them on in the car full blast, windows down etc .............. or maybe not.

I think theres a lot of feel in the music, you've gotta be feelin the man(not literally ) and his music to play it properly. No robots allowed. Thats what I think with my limited experience.

Matchbox is good, one problem though i dont always understand what hes harpin' on about in the songs.

Forgot one, Lay down my old guitar is good catchy tune bit country?!

Thanks for the great stuff and thanks in advance for the more great stuff.

(markigta slopes off into his corner cause hes starting ramblin a load of BS )