Woodstock

[Will C]

Has anyone looked at the Matthews Southern Comfort version? I've been trying to work out the chords for the very legato stuff behind the chorus ("We are stardust.....") - Sounds like bits of Gm scale passages around the 18th fret. I've got the opening and closing chords ok, they are easy enough but I really need some help - anyone out there with a good ear?

It's a beautiful example of how the PSG can underpin a song totally.

Will Cowell

[john roche]

Em
I came upon a child of God
A
He was walking along the road

And I asked him "Where are you going?"
Em
And this he told me

"I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
A
I'm gonna join in a rock and roll band

I'm gonna camp out on the land
Em
And try and get my soul free"

CHORUS #1:
A
We are stardust, we are golden
Em D Em A Em
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
Em
Huy do do do do do do huy do do do do do do

Huy do do do do do do huy do do do

Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
And I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning ...CHORUS #1

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation ...

CHORUS #2:
We are stardust, billion year old carbon
We are golden, caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

[Ken Byng]

John - above are probably chords to the original version, but MSC version has different chord arrangement using more minors.

Will - try this version which looks a lot closer to MSC's version. Dead simple really.

http://www.morenciel.com/tab/engtab/arc ... dstock.txt

[Will C]

John, that's a guitar tab that's freely available out there, I found it first when I went looking - so thanks, but Ken's right, the MSC version is different in many ways. Thanks Ken, it's closer and reinforces my belief that it's played in Bb/Gm so that helps straight away.

I'm thinking the "twiddly bit" behind the chorus goes something like this: ("e" = lower E's, LKL on my Jimmy Day setup)

2----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3------------------------------------------------------------------18-------------------------------------------------
4----------18---18e---18---18e----------18---18e-----------------------------------------------------------------
5------------------------------------18a----------------18a----------------------------------------------------------
6----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- and variants on it. Gm an octave up. What do you think, Ken - am I on the right track?

Will C

[Ken Byng]

Will
You are not a million miles away. You will need to come down an octave and play it in palm harmonics. I will see if I can get time to sit behind my steel and record it with my camcorder and either YouTube it or send you a DVD. It is a very simple piece technically, but typical of Gordon, it fits the number perfectly.

Ken

[Will C]

Hmmm yeah I just wish I could do palm harmonics.....

[Will C]

OMG so that was Gordon Huntley. Now I know why everyone raves about him. Talk about seminal influence... Reminds me of when I first heard of JJ Cale. Went out and bought his LP "Troubadour". First track was "Hey Baby". I thought: "love that steel playing, very classy". I just found out a month or so back that it was Lloyd Green....

[Will C]

OK guys, cracked it. Thanks Ken in particular. Now all I need is lots of practice to get really fluent.

[acerod]

Just been transferring JJ Cale's ' Naturally' to CD. Some nice steel on there. Don't know who it is.

[Will C]

I think it was Lloyd Green, he deffo played for JJ on Troubadour. I have all his early LPs on vinyl, will check.