Wild Horses

[Elphinstone's Army]

A Vintage Lifestyle Store, a new discovery at 95 Dartmouth Road, small furniture, china, curios, things you didn't know you needed, all curated by the lovely Robyn, happy hunting.

[Otta]

And one of my favourite songs of all time.

[Elphinstone's Army]

and me ! Mick at his most mellow, wonderful heartfelt song, gotta hear it now ..

[malumbu]

One of the songs to play at my funeral. Genuinely. Except that this is 'Jacky's' white Horses -theme tune to the TV series of the same name.

[rendelharris]

Not to mention really easy to play in open G, makes poor guitarists (me) sound pretty good.

[jaywalker]

"Horses fluent in the wind,

A place, a time gone out of mind."

http://www.internal.org/Sylvia_Plath/The_Eye_Mote

[moondancer]

how did we get from a curio shop to Sylvia Plath via open G, amazing

[rendelharris]

moondancer Wrote:

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> how did we get from a curio shop to Sylvia Plath

> via open G, amazing

Fun, isn't it?

[BrandNewGuy]

We have Gram Parsons to thank for "Wild Horses". And Gram would have been 70 this Saturday, which is a weird thought.

[rendelharris]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> We have Gram Parsons to thank for "Wild Horses".

> And Gram would have been 70 this Saturday, which

> is a weird thought.

Contentious! I know that's been rumoured but on the other hand Keef's very detailed in "Life" about how and why he wrote it.

[Otta]

Marianne Faithful reckons she inspired the main lyric. Everyone wants a piece of it.

By the way, if you've not read "Faithful", you should. Really entertaining read with some great stories.

I've never played Wild Horses in open G tuning. I've never actually played anything in open G (or D) tuning. I should mess about with some alternate tunings one of these days.

[rendelharris]

Otta Wrote:

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> Marianne Faithful reckons she inspired the main

> lyric. Everyone wants a piece of it.

>

> By the way, if you've not read "Faithful", you

> should. Really entertaining read with some great

> stories.

>

>

> I've never played Wild Horses in open G tuning.

> I've never actually played anything in open G (or

> D) tuning. I should mess about with some alternate

> tunings one of these days.

Yeah, Mick says he wrote it based on what she said when coming round after a suicide attempt, but Keef says he wrote it about missing his newborn son, others say Gram Parsons...just shows what lots of drugs mixed with some combative egos can do!

Open tunings are superb fun, great for playing Stones licks and acoustically great for blues.

[BrandNewGuy]

I'm not necessarily saying Gram wrote it, but if he'd never hooked up with them, there's no way they would have written it.

[Jeremy]

Otta Wrote:

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> I should mess about with some alternate tunings one of these days.

rendelharris Wrote:

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> Open tunings are superb fun, great for playing

> Stones licks and acoustically great for blues.

Problem is, you then have a choice between playing all your songs with that tuning, retuning mid-set, or carrying multiple instruments. So I've always avoided..

[rendelharris]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Problem is, you then have a choice between playing

> all your songs with that tuning, retuning mid-set,

> or carrying multiple instruments. So I've always

> avoided..

I wouldn't dare play in public, so not a problem for me! Retuning is a bind, but I managed to con Mrs.H that I need two acoustics, one to keep in standard and one open, plus I also have a Variax electric which can switch tunings at the turn of a knob.

[Otta]

You should come along to a Dulwich Jam (first Wednesday of every month at Southwark Sports Club, Dulwich Common).

[rendelharris]

Tempting...is it mainly middle aged men drinking ale and talking about guitars? Because that would be ideal, I'll have to get a lot more proper practice in though!

[Elphinstone's Army]

Hey ! I opened this thread in order to alert you all to this interesting shop, which I didn't want to share anyway, in case you all got there first and bagged anything good, but altruism prevailed - and not so that you could hijack it and turn it into a guitar dating site, you are potentially scaring off bona fide respondents.

Whilst I am here : Horse or H was heroin, and wild horses was a bad bad trip, in the colloquial parlance of the time.

This song smacks (pardon the pun) of Keith and another sung by him, which I picked up from the soundtrack of The Sopranos, best played/watched live, 'Thru and Thru' , same sort of plaintive longing, - I am betting on Keith.

Gram Parsons didn't have the necessary melancholy, too busy with other creative endeavours.

[Jah Lush]

Parsons had nothing to do with it. End of. He may have influenced Keith when they hung out together and turning him on to country tunings and songs but that's as far as it goes.

I'll try and remember to have a look in at the store next time I'm passing.

[rendelharris]

Damnation and I had a good story about talking to Hank Wangford about Gram Parsons to share...oh well, another time...

[Elphinstone's Army]

Thank you Jah Lush, always reliable... RH you are a tease and no mistake ...

[rendelharris]

Elphinstone's Army Wrote:

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> Thank you Jah Lush, always reliable... RH you are

> a tease and no mistake ...

It wasn't that great a story to be honest, once you're past "I talked to Hank Wangford about Gram Parsons" you've pretty much got the gist. ;-)

[Otta]

The Sundays did a very nice cover of WH in the late 90s.

[Otta]

[Otta]

And this version is pretty special IMO