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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Trauma-san on December 18, 2005, 01:48:12 PM
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Alright, week 3. As usual post good or bad.
Artist of the week is.....
(http://www.bermudeztriangle.com/media/photos/early_career/jb_feliciano.GIF)
Jose Feliciano. LOL.
This guy is great. He's an amazing guitar player, has a really flamenco style.
Like so many great musicians, Jose was born blind. You have got to hear this guy play guitar. You've actually already heard him, his biggest song is "Feliz Navidad", although that song is nothing at all like his typical style of performing. This guy used to practice guitar for 12 or 14 hours a day to get as good as he has.
He made a name for himself in the latin market in the 60's, then they pushed him to an American auidence with a cover version of the Door's "Light My Fire". It's unbelievable if you've never heard his version. He slows it way down until it's just him and his guitar, it's so beautiful it's creepy.
His specialty is recording cover songs his way. Song after Song after Song done very creatively with an almost unbelievable acoustic guitar track in the background. His voice is very powerful as well.
Great songs by him:
Light My Fire
California Dreamin'
Susie Q
Hey Baby
Walk Right In
If you want to hear him go crazy on the guitar, check out "Walk Right in". Also "Light My Fire" is must hearing.
Jose's still around touring and things. If you have the Motown 25th anniversary tape (the one where the Jackson 5 reunited and Michael did the first-ever moonwalk), Jose sings "Lonely Teardrops" to tribute Barry Gordy, founder of Motown who got famous writing Lonely Teardrops for Jackie Wilson.
Week 1: Merle Haggard
Week 2: Jerry Butler
Week 3: Jose Feliciano
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dude is fucking INSANELY good at the guitar...he also plays using mostly his fingers, in the classical style that's what makes him even more impressive as a guitarist
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Yeah, I can get down with some of Jose's stuff. Its real good stuff to just chill out to, I like his cover of the Beatles - Help!, using the guitar instead of singing the "Help" section at the start of the song.
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I'll check him out.
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I'll check him out.
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Yeah, I can get down with some of Jose's stuff. Its real good stuff to just chill out to, I like his cover of the Beatles - Help!, using the guitar instead of singing the "Help" section at the start of the song.
Just listened to the "Help!" cover again for the first time in a while, its actually a horn that does the "Help" line, still a really dope cover though.
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Never heard of this guy before, will have to look into it and get back to you.
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Yeah, I can get down with some of Jose's stuff. Its real good stuff to just chill out to,
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can someone upload some shit, cause wen i look it up on file servers , all i can find is his spanish shit, and light my fire, and yesterday, i wana hear the other songs....
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can someone upload some shit, cause wen i look it up on file servers , all i can find is his spanish shit, and light my fire, and yesterday, i wana hear the other songs....
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i have limewire right?
there's like a bajilliion and a half of his 'english' shit on there
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Walk Right In and "Hey Baby" are two you h-a-v-e-g-o-t to find.
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Walk Right In and "Hey Baby" are two you h-a-v-e-g-o-t to find.
Found Walk Right In, really good track... props for this Trauma!
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No problem but I can't find it myself, lol. I've got in on CD but I was trying to download it off Limewire, can't find it. Where'd you get it?
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damn, he does a lot of beatles covers, i really like how some of his covers are just instrumentals
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No problem but I can't find it myself, lol. I've got in on CD but I was trying to download it off Limewire, can't find it. Where'd you get it?
what are you looking it up under? i put in the song name and thats how i got it. on limewire u cant always put the title and the artist
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^ I tried that, but it didn't bring his version up. Your sure it's him, right?
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^ I tried that, but it didn't bring his version up. Your sure it's him, right?
Yea sorry I didn't reply...
I typed in the title of the song and also put in Jose Feliciano under the spot where it says artists, and there should be one.. it took awhile to d/l tho..
hope ya find it
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fuck him
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^ I tried that, but it didn't bring his version up. Your sure it's him, right?
yeah there should be two file names
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I'll check him out.