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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

1181.0. "Jerry Donahue" by CHEFS::IMMSA (Is there life after breakfast?) Mon Mar 06 1989 07:19

    I have just seen a video recording of a programme shown on Channel
    4 (UK) a while back about the electric guitar.
    
    Naturally this features various players, Chet Atkins, Hendrix, Andy
    Summers, Seymour Duncan showing the various effects etc you can
    get nowadays.
    
    However - the standout is a guy called Jerry Donahue (sp?) who talks
    at length about stringbending and demonstrates on his Telecaster
    before going into a finger lickin, lip smacking, mouthwateringly
    eyepopping version of "The Claw".
              
    Question - just who is Jerry Donahue and is there any recorded output?
              
    in awe
    
    
    andy
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1181.1UK albumTRUCKS::JANSEN_JMon Mar 06 1989 07:4618
    Hi
    Jerry Donahue was a member of an English folk group called Fairport
    Convention and as far as I am aware was guitarist in their last
    regular line up.
    
    He does have a solo album called "Telecasting" released on the UK
    "Music Maker" label which includes the piece he performs on the
    program that you mentioned.
    
    Music Maker are based at Alexander House
    			     Forehill
    			     Ely
    			     Cambridgeshire
    			     CB7 4AF.
    
    
    He is a great player and I hope the you get the chance of seeing him
    perform.....
1181.2Faaaantastic!CAPVAX::ZNAMIEROWSKIVapor LockMon Mar 06 1989 08:122
    There was a soundpage in GP last year sometime (?) featuring Jerry
    Donahue...
1181.3Partial DiscographyAQUA::ROSTShe's looking better every beerMon Mar 06 1989 09:2531
    
    
    BTW, although he is known as a British player, Donahue was born
    in the US and moved to the UK in the sixties.
    
    Some Donahue recordings in addition to "Telecasting":
    
    With Fotheringay:
    
    Fotheringay (A&M/Carthage/Island) (IMHO his solos on "Nothing More"
    and "The Sea" rate as his best ever)

    With Sandy Denny:
    
    North Star Grassman and the Ravens (A&M/Carthage/Island)
    
    Sandy (A&M/Island)
    
    Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (Carthage/Island)
    
    Rendezvous (Carthage/Island)
    
    With Fairport Convention:
    
    Nine (Island)
    
    A Movable Feast (in UK I think the title is Fairport Live) (Island)
    
    Rise Up For The Moon (Island)
    
    Expletive Delighted (Varrick/Woodworm) (appears on one track only)
1181.4A little bit moreIOSG::CREASYLike trying to nail jelly to a treeMon Mar 06 1989 10:3611
    It's funny, I listened to Telecasting over the weekend for the first
    time in ages... I can recommend it (though most of it isn't as up-tempo
    as the Beak and the Claw). The Beak and the Claw was featured in
    the GP soundpage, though it's a different version to that on
    Telecasting.
    
    More recently, apart from the Fairport reunion last year, Jerry's
    been playing with Julian Dawson (though I don't think he's on the
    latest LP).
    
    Nick
1181.5thanksCHEFS::IMMSAIs there life after breakfast?Mon Mar 13 1989 07:284
    thanks for all the feedback
    
    andy