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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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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. ;-)

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