The Iceman
1030 posts
Jul 21, 2013
8:32 AM
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Had an opportunity to listen to some cuts from this CD...
Miss Vicki and I both agree that no one sends shivers up our spine like Brendan's playing....we love his work with Mary Black and the cuts we heard on this CD are stellar.
Only Norton Buffalo's chromatic works equal the beauty of Brendan's playing.
Brendan, if you see this, was that you on "Shape of My Heart" on Ten Summoners Tales by Sting?
Sure sounds like you.
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The Iceman
Last Edited by The Iceman on Jul 21, 2013 2:10 PM
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Frank
3693 posts
Jan 13, 2014
6:30 PM
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Looks like him...harmonica starts at 2:20 :)
Larry Adler plays on the original :)
Here is tab for it :)
Shape of My Heart
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Jehosaphat
651 posts
Jan 13, 2014
6:59 PM
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Yep that is our Brendan.
I'm not to keen on it myself but my wife loves his harmonica nights album.
Playing with sting is part of his CV.
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Brendan Power
411 posts
Jan 14, 2014
4:26 AM
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Wow, going back a long way for both of those!
I'm with Johosophat: Easy Listening is not my first choice of genres but I promised to do "Harmonica Nights" in exchange for the NZ record label Jayrem putting out my mostly original first album "State of the Harp" in 1990. I prefer SOTH but Jayrem's commercial instincts were good as HN outsold it by about 100 to 1.
It got released in Europe and sold over 100,000 copies in a short time. The European label was called Disky, who were pretty dodgy. When I got to the UK in 1992 I discovered they had registered my two original tracks on the album as their own compositions! I never managed to get the royalties I was owed on them. Welcome to the music business!
Larry Adler played "Shape of my Heart" on Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales album, but I was called in to play it on the video. We did it at Sting's country home near Salisbury, England. It was quite an experience to go from obscure little bars and folk clubs to suddenly be playing with the likes of David Sancious and Vinny Colaiuta. I played on one track of the album also, "Something the Boy Said". I remember they made my solo on that song out of two unrelated takes with a very un-harmonica-like join in the middle, rather weird.
William Galison also played with Sting's band to promote that album in the USA (I think he did the Tonight Show). It was interesting to compare notes with him. We both recall that Sting was very positive towards us but his band were not especially welcoming towards alien harmonica players...
Last Edited by Brendan Power on Jan 14, 2014 4:27 AM
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WinslowYerxa
485 posts
Jan 14, 2014
3:46 PM
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Will Galison did play Saturday Night Live with Sting's band, all wearing cowboy hats. (They may have also done Carson; if so, I didn't happen to see it.)
I remember Will describing his parting of ways with that band as something akin to organ transplant rejection (and at the time neither of us thought to make the obvious pun).
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Winslow
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