No Expectations

[Jif]

I've been browsing through old recordings and found this. It's a cover of a Stones song which I put together some years ago with my lifetime friend and guitarist Brian Strachan who plays rhythm guitar on the track. I'm playing my Weissenborn Acoustic Slide Guitar, bass, drums and vocal.

So as long as you have No Expectations of the vocal being up to a professional standard, I hope you enjoy the instrumentation on the track, the Weissenborn has a great tone, a bit like a dobro but a touch more mellow and fantastic sustain due to the hollow neck being part of the sound chamber.

[Danny Mitchell]

Great stuff Geoff,
a tasty version, indeed. Took me back to when I was transitioning......from a wee Glesca ned into a wee Glesca hippy. Let's hear it for lysergic acid diethymalide.
That Weissenborn is a beautiful instrument, to hear and to gaze upon. I recall being very impressed when you brought it along to Gartcosh.
Thanks for digging it out and posting.

[Uncle Roy]

Geoff, what’s not to like? Nice version, very enjoyable.
Thanks for posting.

[Gary James Peters]

Very nice Geoff, and as Danny says, a beautiful instrument in every way. I much prefer it to the Dobro, an instrument I've never been drawn to, and not helped by the ubiquitous flashiness of Jerry Douglas parachuted into so many recordings with his arsenal of virtuosic cliches. I think, with such instruments, less is more: think Greg Leisz, he plays a Weissenborn, right? I think you get it just right on this track. And (speaking as a sh** vocalist myself) the vocals ain't bad at all: they fit, put it that way.

G

[Jif]

Thanks Gary. Yeah, I love the tone from the Weissenborn and agree with you regarding this versus a Dobro, I guess they both have their place but personally I prefer the Weissenborn.

I love this guys playing, I bought the tab for this song, was getting somewhere with it but to get it anywhere near Ed's level was a challenge to say the least. Maybe I'll give it another go once I get back into playing again. In any case I should get back into playing it again, I'd forgotten how sweet it sounds.



Vocals, aye, I'm more of a doing the harmony for the lead vocalist kind of guy, but I can do a passable lead vocal.