"Tell Mama" Tele

My friend and I, took a crack at this old Savoy Brown classic, "Tell Mama".
He played bass, sang, and....uhh....errr....programed the drums. ( just a wee bit, to many beers, whilst programing the drum parts, was found to be the rhythmic culprit ) What the heck, we left it, as is.. :mrgreen:

I used my '52 RI Tele, for all the slide and rhythm parts. I bought her back in '96, and it's just the sweetest sounding guitar, for all types of music and tones. I ran her through a Blues Jr., and used a TS9 for the slide parts.
Fun song to play..!! If ya give it a listen, I thank ya...!!!


http://www.netmusicians.org/files/54-Tell%20Mama%201-0.mp3

Good stuff. Thanks for that. One of my favorite SB songs.

Dan R

Wow, JV. Very nice job. Great slide work.
I give it a 10. (shades of American Bandstand)

Great job, JV . . . I love this song! My mid-seventies band used to do it and it always got a great bar-crowd reaction, in spite of not being familiar radio fodder . . . I know we didn't do it this good, though . . . your touch on the slide and those other Tele tones have this song NAILED. Just-right vocal, too.

As for the rhythmic "culprit", I wouldn't have changed it, either . . . sounds just like our drummer did about 1:30 AM . . .

Great job!

Oh,WOW..!!
Thanks for all the comments guys..!!

"I used my '52 RI Tele, for all the slide and rhythm parts."

Nice job...
Is that slide part in standard tuning?

Great tune!! I'd forgotten all about that one!!! Thanks!

Thanks again, for the commets..!!

tonewoods:
The two rhythm tracks, and slide guitar parts were played in open A tuning.
Low to high: E-A-E-A-C#-E

Thanks!

very much enjoyed!

Being a Savoy Brown fan to the extent of hiring them to play for a private affair in '02, y'all did a hell of a job there. Got a really sweet LP tone out of your Tele, too! What's a "TS9"? Someone here recently was looking for a Tab for that slide intro. Do you have one?

Nice work man!!!!!

Thanks a lot, johnnytronics..!!!

River;
You hired, Savoy Brown..?? Now THAT's a party...!!! HA! HA!

TS9 is an Ibanez Tubescreamer. I used it by turning the drive to zero, and level turned up to about 3-4 o'clock. The Blues Jr. was dimed ( LOUD amp for 15watts..!!), and rolled back the tone knob on my Tele, about "half way-ish".

No I'm sorry, I don't have a tab for that song. If you tune your guitar to open A tuning, you'll see and hear, that those sllde phrases are right there in the "box" positions.
And thanks, for the kind words..!!!

I haven't heard that song in years! Great job!

Do you do requests?

How 'bout some old Foghat!

Edit: I just remembered that 2 or 3 members of Savoy Brown left the group to form Foghat! So in a sense, that was old Foghat!:oops:

Enjoyed the slide work! :grin:

Most excellent! Some killer slide playing and tones!