Mooseboy Alfonzo and His Prairie Troubadours proudly presentThe Tim Tew
Three/Four
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So I started taking music
lessons when I was 10. My brother was a musician and
always playing gigs and going out weekends. It sounded
pretty cool to me. When I was 13, I had been primarily taking bass lessons for a couple of years and was pretty good. My bass teacher, along with the drum instructor/salesman at the music store had a band. In fact, my brother, who also worked at the store, had been their original bass player. When he moved away, they found another guy, but he wasn't working out. |
"Misty" in E-flat doesn't start with an open G
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Banter Medley
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Banter
Medley <--Click here to listen |
For The Good Times
For this classic song, we'd do the "little doggie" after
the line "I'll get along". My favorite, however, was
replacing the end of the second verse with "There's no
need to wash the bridges. 'Cause they're burning..." |
For The Good Times
<--Click here to listen |
Who Can It Be Now?No one ever confused us with Men
at Work, but this was one of the more successful
"modern" songs we played. The drummer was a big fan of
adding "uh" in every so often; it was a phase... |
Who Can It Be Now <--Click
here to listen |
Drivin' My Life
Away
The absolute best substitute lyrics no one ever heard.
For the second verse, where Eddie
Rabbit sings "Jack me up, pop me down, shoot me
off, flyin' down the highway", we sing...well, you'll
just need to hear it for yourself. |
Drivin' My Life Away
<--Click here to listen |
Whiskey Bent and
Hell Bound
No no, don't play this one, pa. It
always makes me cry... |
Whiskey Bent <--Click here
to listen |
Rocky Top
Not our best version, the guest vocalist apparently did
it differently than we did, but you can hear my
hyperkenetic bass playing in full effect here. In the
early days, the drummer would say to me "Can you hear my
right foot (the bass drum)? That's what you should be
playing." At first, I listened to him, after all I was
just a kid, but after awhile I decided I'm my own man
and have my own style. I could never wrap myself around
the idea of playing "bomp bomp. bomp bomp" country
bass...so the drummer started calling me "Little
Chris Squire" |
Rocky
Top <--Click here to listen |
Church of the
Poison Mind
Another song we did as part of our modernization
efforts. It worked okay, but man...this was all the
drummer's idea. We said "fine, but you
have to sing the chick's part." |
Church of the Poison Mind
<--Click here to listen |
Long Train Runnin'
The answer to many a song request, from Michael Jackson
to disco to you name it. Anything that had a fast tempo
and people wanted to dance this, this was our go-to
number. |
Long Train Runnin <--Click
here to listen |
Rock Around the
Clock
I had two numbers I sang with the band. My "feature"
song was "The
Curly Shuffle", but also sang this with the lead.
Also features a bass solo. |
Rock Around The Clock
<--Click here to listen |
By The Time I Get
to Phoenix/Joy to the World
As I said, the drummer usually ran the set list of what
we played next. He would always say "go right into it",
even if it was the most unlikely combination of songs
you could imagine. Here's one such example, featuring
our "surprise" ending of Phoenix. I say "surprise"
because we did every time we played the song, and we
played the same places again and again...probably not
much of a surprise after awhile... |
Phoenix-Joy <--Click here
to listen |
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