Headbang voting etc - 17 January, 2020 (2)

The 5th theme of the evening was MURDER BALLADS - one we had used some time ago for one of our River Dee Radio shows. 7 videos were played and the votes were:

1	Jimi Hendrix	Hey Joe	41
2	Nirvana	Where did you sleep last night?	38
3	PJ Harvey	Down by the water	34
4	Raconteurs	Carolina Drama	32
5	Nina Simone	The Ballad of Hollis Brown	26
6	Fairport Convention	The Hanging Song	13
7	Bruce Springsteen	Nebraska	12

The penultimate theme was labelled KEEF'S RIFFS and came about as a result of an old article I had spotted when Keith Richards listed the Top 10 riffs he had created. The Headbangers had earlier been given a blank sheet to list what they thought might appear in this list. Some did better than others in their guesswork - here's the number that each correctly guessed:

Colin - 6

Jeb and Andy - 5

Dave & Gerry - 3

Aidan - 2

We played mostly covers of Keith's selections, starting in 10th place down to Satisfaction in first:

10	Blondie	Start me up
9	Rolling Stones	Miss you
8	Black Crowes	Can't you hear me knocking
7	Patti Smith	Gimme shelter
6	Steepwater Band	Street fighting man
5	The Big Push	Sympathy for the Devil
4	Tina Turner	Jumping Jack Flash
3	Eric Burdon & the Animals	Paint it, black
2	Tesla	Mother's little helper
1	Otis Redding	Satisfaction

Most of us were surprised about the omission of classics like Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Women, but there were also incorrect guesses at umpteen other tracks, including a couple that Keith didn't write, like Little Red Rooster, Route 66 and It's All Over Now. There was even a guess at a song that didn't exist - Exile on Main St, which was the name of an album.

Other (incorrect) guesses were:

Country Honk

Let it bleed

Get off my cloud

Under cover of the night

The Last Time

You can't always get what you want

19th nervous breakdown

Tumbling dice

Midnight rambler

Wild horses

Nobody thought Can't You Hear Me Knocking or Mother's Little Helper would be included in Keith's Top 10 list.

The last theme of the evening was WILLIE DIXON'S LEGACY - the first in what will hopefully become a series of features of Significant Songwriters. Nobody composed more classic electric blues than the great man. Initially, it was blues artistes like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf in particular that recorded his compositions, but most rock groups of the 60's, 70's and beyond have plundered his back catalogue - where would Led Zeppelin have been without Willie Dixon's compositions?

We did a quick run-through of 12 Dixon classics:

Muddy Waters	Hoochie Coochie Man
Adele	I just want to make love to you
Taj Mahal	Diddy wah diddy
Willie Dixon & Walter Shakey Horton	My babe
Otis Rush	I can't quit you baby
Doors	Back door man
Cream	Spoonful
Koko Taylor	Wang dang doodle
Rolling Stones & Tom Waits	Little Red Rooster
Strypes	You can't judge a book by the cover
Black Crowes & Jimmy Page	You shook me
Led Zeppelin	Bring it on home

That was pretty much that - other than the mandatory team photo: