kansasfan asked:
……..”unusual” instrument?
I was listening to some Jethro Tull (Locomotive Breath actually), and once again I was amazed by way Ian Anderson used the flute…
My question is, do you have any other songs or bands to mention, that they used an unusual instrument? IExcept from the usual stuff, like guitar, bass, drums? I have to say, I really like the flute. Post a link with a song you think the use of this specific instrument, was more than great…
BQ: For males and females… A rock star you had or still have a crush on?
MQ: Favorite song by Jethro Tull?
MQ2: Now playing?
Thanks!
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The sitar, an Indian stringed instrument. Ravi Shankar is a master of it.
BQ: N/A.
MQ: Again, N/A.
MQ2: “Temecula Sunrise” by Dirty Projectors.
I like the washboard. Quite a bit, actually.
Santana – Oye Como Va
BA: Pat Benetar
MA: Cross Eyed Mary – Check out how Iron Maiden changed the flute parts to guitar. Brilliant.
MA2: Santana (diggin’ the washboard!)
Norwegian Wood-The Beatles
“When I’m 64″ – clarinet
“The Fool On the Hill” – recorder and flute
I like the flute too, just remembered this song the other day:
Flute Loop – Beastie Boys
BA: 1994. Anna Nicole Smith. You say she wasn’t a rock star? I say you’re being picky.
1: Cross Eyed Mary
2: The Captain & Me – Doobie Brothers
Mandolin (is that unusual?)
BA: …
MA: Living in the Past
MA2: King Crimson – Red
the Sitar
BA: Keith Murray (the singer of “We Are Scientists”)
MA: “Too Old To Rock N Roll, To Young To Die”
MA2: The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
I love Collective Soul’s “The World I Know.” It uses violins and a cello.
BQ: Belinda Carlisle
I love the flute and sitar too, but the most “unusual” instrument I love is the Japanese koto, used by the jazz fusion band Hiroshima, you can hear it in their song “One Wish”……
Here is a pic of it:
The harpsichord at the beginning of “The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke” by Queen. Freddie was a musical genius!
the violin, by acts such as shooting star, and one of your favorites, indicated by the avatar, kansas.
bq – susanna hoffs of the bangles was the woman for me back in the day.
mq – not really a fan of jethro tull, but did like the flute played by anderson in the old honeymoon suite song, “all along you knew”.
mq2 – sadly, the vacuum, by my girlfriend.