Chords for R.I.P. Danny Kirwan
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Okay, we're just going to talk about sad news about Danny Kirwan passing.
Really, really sad news for the whole kind of guitar world.
Danny Kirwan was of course the guitar player in the original flute with Mack.
Peter Green formed the band and then he asked Danny Kirwan to join.
And, you know, Danny Kirwan was a really big part of that band and he was a very melodic player.
Peter Green's style is very melodic anyway.
You know, if you listen to any of Peter Green's stuff, he's a very melodic player.
You know, the solo is like from, if you listen to Black Magic Woman.
[B] [E]
[N] And he can almost sing the solo.
Danny Kirwan was very much that kind of a player.
He brought some really cool sort of techniques I think to the blues guitar idiom.
Such as, [Am] for example, like bending a minor third, sorry, bending a ninth.
So if we [G] were
[Ab] Bending a ninth to a minor third.
You know, and he had this really kind of [E] heavy vibrato.
[G] [N] And there's a great song called Like It This Way.
And it's very hard to play actually.
I think it's in A.
It could be in G.
I can't remember.
But anyway, I'll play it in A.
[D]
[Am] [D]
[A]
[C] [B]
[N] You know, so it's kind of, you know, a really kicking song and, you know, really good.
And also, I mean, obviously the most famous, the [B] song he did with Peter Green.
[A] And [Abm]
[Abm] he did [Am] all the harmonies, you know.
[Ab] [A]
[Db] Which I think the harmonies were, if I [Gb] remember rightly.
[G]
[E] Okay, I'm not able to play both [Gb] those notes at the same time.
But, you know, so [F] he was very melodic and he brought that harmony style of guitar playing.
I think, you know, maybe even before the Allman Brothers did it.
Certainly before bands like Thin Lizzy [D] and all those kind of bands did that harmony thing, you know.
[N] So for me, he was a very, he was an innovator and not often talked about.
He's not talked about enough, you know.
I actually tried to meet him a couple of years ago.
I was living in, working in South London and doing something with music [D] education.
And I heard that there was a care home near there where he was based.
I don't know if this information was correct, but I kind of made a few inquiries to sort of see if I could actually meet the guy.
But, you know, I wasn't able to.
I mean, he'd actually given up guitar pretty soon after he left Flute With Mac.
Apparently, he wasn't really playing.
I mean, he even like sold his, he had like a 954 Stratocaster and he was living, after Flute With Mac, he went back to Leon C.
And was just hanging around the pubs there drinking, you know, too much.
And basically, you know, not playing guitar and he sold all his stuff.
And I think he [N] even sold a 954 Strat to some shop, guitar shop in Leon C.
And so his girlfriend or former girlfriend had to go there with some other guys and get the guitar back, you know,
because the guitar shop had bought it knowing who it was and knowing his situation and bought the guitar for next to nothing.
So I think fortunately he got that guitar back.
I'm not, I'm not sure of the whole story.
And then after that, a lot of people saw him living rough in, in the center of London, right, you know, in Hyde Park.
And, you know, people would go in, you know, to see this guy who they hardly recognized.
And he was literally sleeping on the street rough, which was real sad.
You know, he's one of the main icons of guitar and from the 60s and he's just sleeping rough in Hyde Park.
And so that was quite sad.
But I think he's some of his family members, not sure how it happened, but some of his family members managed to get him into a care home in London.
And so that he was able, I think, for the rest of his life to spend it in some comfort.
So that's a good news.
But yeah, certainly a sad situation there.
But like I said, his guitar style and his songwriting was brilliant.
One of my favorite songs is called Dragonfly.
And you want to check it out because it's really sort of a great sort of style.
And When the Sun is Shining is another really cool song by him.
So he's a great, very melodic songwriter.
And I'm just telling you this by memory.
You know, this is what I know about the guy because I'm not reading from a Wikipedia page or something.
I'm just saying [Em] this is what I just know about the guy from [D] speaking to other musicians.
Another thing about him was interesting was that he had perfect pitch.
So, you know, he could, you know, [N]
I don't have perfect pitch, I have relative pitch.
But, you know, I've developed that through years of hard work.
But he actually was born with perfect pitch.
So, you know, if you played him, he'd know that was an A note.
So that's another interesting fact.
And the guitars he played was quite interesting.
He played throughout, you know, if you're not mad, you've had a Les Paul with P90s.
I think it was a 1956 model because it had the, you know, what's it called?
The, you know, the Nashville style [Gm] bridge or whatever you want to call it.
But he [G] had P90s.
And then from there, but he also used Stratocaster because I think he had this.
There was in flute with Mack a 1954 Strat with a maple neck, a Sunburst that was being used on.
That was actually used on Albatross because Albatross wasn't played on a Les Paul.
It was actually played on a Stratocaster with [N] Danny.
And I think Danny's, I'm pretty sure Danny's playing on Albatross.
I think he did a lot of really clever stuff on Albatross, which he hasn't got recognized for.
I think, you know, don't exactly know who played what, but I think Danny Coen really, really did a lot to that track.
And they, but in the band they had this 1954 Strat that they share.
But I think that was a Strat that Danny Coen ended up with that was sold to the shop in Southend, Leon C.
And a good friend of mine, actually a very good friend of mine used to drink in a pub with Danny, you know, after the flute with Mack.
So he was, he had a lot of stories that Danny told him.
And my friend would always say to Danny, you know, are you going to pick up the guitar?
You know, I'll bring you a guitar, come and play.
And Danny was like, no, no, that was, that was the past, you know.
So sad that he never sort of played again.
But yeah, that's sad news today.
You know, Danny Coen, one of my favorite players.
Certainly check him out if you're a blues guitar player or any other musician, you know, you should know his work.
He's part of the kind of the history of British blues, real, real important player.
And I think you should definitely get more recognition for his songwriting, his playing and everything else.
So check him out.
Thanks for watching this video and speak
Really, really sad news for the whole kind of guitar world.
Danny Kirwan was of course the guitar player in the original flute with Mack.
Peter Green formed the band and then he asked Danny Kirwan to join.
And, you know, Danny Kirwan was a really big part of that band and he was a very melodic player.
Peter Green's style is very melodic anyway.
You know, if you listen to any of Peter Green's stuff, he's a very melodic player.
You know, the solo is like from, if you listen to Black Magic Woman.
[B] [E]
[N] And he can almost sing the solo.
Danny Kirwan was very much that kind of a player.
He brought some really cool sort of techniques I think to the blues guitar idiom.
Such as, [Am] for example, like bending a minor third, sorry, bending a ninth.
So if we [G] were
[Ab] Bending a ninth to a minor third.
You know, and he had this really kind of [E] heavy vibrato.
[G] [N] And there's a great song called Like It This Way.
And it's very hard to play actually.
I think it's in A.
It could be in G.
I can't remember.
But anyway, I'll play it in A.
[D]
[Am] [D]
[A]
[C] [B]
[N] You know, so it's kind of, you know, a really kicking song and, you know, really good.
And also, I mean, obviously the most famous, the [B] song he did with Peter Green.
[A] And [Abm]
[Abm] he did [Am] all the harmonies, you know.
[Ab] [A]
[Db] Which I think the harmonies were, if I [Gb] remember rightly.
[G]
[E] Okay, I'm not able to play both [Gb] those notes at the same time.
But, you know, so [F] he was very melodic and he brought that harmony style of guitar playing.
I think, you know, maybe even before the Allman Brothers did it.
Certainly before bands like Thin Lizzy [D] and all those kind of bands did that harmony thing, you know.
[N] So for me, he was a very, he was an innovator and not often talked about.
He's not talked about enough, you know.
I actually tried to meet him a couple of years ago.
I was living in, working in South London and doing something with music [D] education.
And I heard that there was a care home near there where he was based.
I don't know if this information was correct, but I kind of made a few inquiries to sort of see if I could actually meet the guy.
But, you know, I wasn't able to.
I mean, he'd actually given up guitar pretty soon after he left Flute With Mac.
Apparently, he wasn't really playing.
I mean, he even like sold his, he had like a 954 Stratocaster and he was living, after Flute With Mac, he went back to Leon C.
And was just hanging around the pubs there drinking, you know, too much.
And basically, you know, not playing guitar and he sold all his stuff.
And I think he [N] even sold a 954 Strat to some shop, guitar shop in Leon C.
And so his girlfriend or former girlfriend had to go there with some other guys and get the guitar back, you know,
because the guitar shop had bought it knowing who it was and knowing his situation and bought the guitar for next to nothing.
So I think fortunately he got that guitar back.
I'm not, I'm not sure of the whole story.
And then after that, a lot of people saw him living rough in, in the center of London, right, you know, in Hyde Park.
And, you know, people would go in, you know, to see this guy who they hardly recognized.
And he was literally sleeping on the street rough, which was real sad.
You know, he's one of the main icons of guitar and from the 60s and he's just sleeping rough in Hyde Park.
And so that was quite sad.
But I think he's some of his family members, not sure how it happened, but some of his family members managed to get him into a care home in London.
And so that he was able, I think, for the rest of his life to spend it in some comfort.
So that's a good news.
But yeah, certainly a sad situation there.
But like I said, his guitar style and his songwriting was brilliant.
One of my favorite songs is called Dragonfly.
And you want to check it out because it's really sort of a great sort of style.
And When the Sun is Shining is another really cool song by him.
So he's a great, very melodic songwriter.
And I'm just telling you this by memory.
You know, this is what I know about the guy because I'm not reading from a Wikipedia page or something.
I'm just saying [Em] this is what I just know about the guy from [D] speaking to other musicians.
Another thing about him was interesting was that he had perfect pitch.
So, you know, he could, you know, [N]
I don't have perfect pitch, I have relative pitch.
But, you know, I've developed that through years of hard work.
But he actually was born with perfect pitch.
So, you know, if you played him, he'd know that was an A note.
So that's another interesting fact.
And the guitars he played was quite interesting.
He played throughout, you know, if you're not mad, you've had a Les Paul with P90s.
I think it was a 1956 model because it had the, you know, what's it called?
The, you know, the Nashville style [Gm] bridge or whatever you want to call it.
But he [G] had P90s.
And then from there, but he also used Stratocaster because I think he had this.
There was in flute with Mack a 1954 Strat with a maple neck, a Sunburst that was being used on.
That was actually used on Albatross because Albatross wasn't played on a Les Paul.
It was actually played on a Stratocaster with [N] Danny.
And I think Danny's, I'm pretty sure Danny's playing on Albatross.
I think he did a lot of really clever stuff on Albatross, which he hasn't got recognized for.
I think, you know, don't exactly know who played what, but I think Danny Coen really, really did a lot to that track.
And they, but in the band they had this 1954 Strat that they share.
But I think that was a Strat that Danny Coen ended up with that was sold to the shop in Southend, Leon C.
And a good friend of mine, actually a very good friend of mine used to drink in a pub with Danny, you know, after the flute with Mack.
So he was, he had a lot of stories that Danny told him.
And my friend would always say to Danny, you know, are you going to pick up the guitar?
You know, I'll bring you a guitar, come and play.
And Danny was like, no, no, that was, that was the past, you know.
So sad that he never sort of played again.
But yeah, that's sad news today.
You know, Danny Coen, one of my favorite players.
Certainly check him out if you're a blues guitar player or any other musician, you know, you should know his work.
He's part of the kind of the history of British blues, real, real important player.
And I think you should definitely get more recognition for his songwriting, his playing and everything else.
So check him out.
Thanks for watching this video and speak
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_ Okay, we're just going to talk about sad news about Danny Kirwan passing.
Really, really sad news for the whole kind of guitar world.
Danny Kirwan was of course the guitar player in the original flute with Mack.
Peter Green _ formed the band and then he asked Danny Kirwan to join.
And, you know, Danny Kirwan was a really big part of that band and he was a very melodic player.
Peter Green's style is very melodic anyway.
You know, if you listen to any of Peter Green's stuff, he's a very melodic player.
You know, the solo is like from, if you listen to Black Magic Woman.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
[N] And he can almost sing the solo.
Danny Kirwan was very much that kind of a player.
He brought some really cool sort of techniques I think to _ the blues guitar idiom.
Such as, [Am] for example, like bending a minor third, sorry, bending a ninth.
So if we [G] were_
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Bending a ninth to a minor third.
_ _ You know, and he had this really kind of [E] heavy vibrato.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [N] And there's a great song called Like It This Way.
And it's very hard to play actually.
_ I think it's in A.
It could be in G.
I can't remember.
But anyway, I'll play it in A.
_ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [B] _
[N] You know, so it's kind of, you know, a really kicking song and, you know, really good.
And also, I mean, obviously the most famous, the [B] song he did with Peter Green.
[A] And _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Abm] he did [Am] all the harmonies, you know.
[Ab] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Db] Which I think the harmonies were, if I [Gb] remember rightly.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[E] Okay, I'm not able to play both [Gb] those notes at the same time.
But, you know, so [F] he was very melodic and he brought that harmony style of guitar playing.
I think, you know, maybe even before the Allman Brothers did it.
Certainly before bands like Thin Lizzy [D] and all those kind of bands did that harmony thing, you know.
[N] So for me, he was a very, he was an innovator and not often talked about.
He's not talked about enough, you know.
I actually tried to meet him a couple of years ago.
I was living in, working in South London _ and doing something with music [D] education.
And I heard that there was a care home near there where he was based.
I don't know if this information was correct, but I kind of made a few inquiries to sort of see if I could actually meet the guy.
But, you know, I wasn't able to.
I mean, he'd actually given up guitar pretty soon after he left Flute With Mac.
Apparently, he wasn't really playing.
I mean, he even like sold his, he had like a 954 Stratocaster and he was living, after Flute With Mac, he went back to Leon C.
And was just hanging around the pubs there drinking, you know, too much.
And _ basically, you know, not playing guitar and he sold all his stuff.
And I think he [N] even sold a 954 Strat to some shop, guitar shop in Leon C.
And so his girlfriend or former girlfriend had to go there with some other guys and get the guitar back, you know,
because the guitar shop had bought it knowing who it was and knowing his situation and bought the guitar for next to nothing.
So I think fortunately he got that guitar back.
I'm not, I'm not sure of the whole story.
And then after that, a lot of people saw him living rough in, _ in the center of London, right, you know, in Hyde Park.
And, you know, people would go in, you know, to see this guy who they hardly recognized.
And he was literally sleeping on the street rough, _ which was real sad.
You know, he's one of the main icons of guitar and from the 60s and he's just sleeping rough in Hyde Park.
And so that was quite sad.
But I think he's some of his family members, not sure how it happened, but some of his family members managed to get him into a care home in London.
And so that he was able, I think, for the rest of his life to spend it in some comfort.
So that's a good news.
But yeah, certainly a sad situation there.
But like I said, his guitar style and his songwriting was brilliant.
One of my favorite songs is called Dragonfly.
_ And you want to check it out because it's really sort of a great sort of style.
And When the Sun is Shining is another really cool song by him.
So he's a great, very melodic _ songwriter.
And I'm just telling you this by memory.
You know, this is what I know about the guy because I'm not reading from a Wikipedia page or something.
I'm just saying [Em] this is what I just know about the guy from _ _ [D] speaking to other musicians.
Another thing about him was interesting was that he had perfect pitch. _
_ So, you know, he could, you know, _ _ [N]
I don't have perfect pitch, I have relative pitch.
But, you know, I've developed that through years of hard work.
But he actually was born with perfect pitch.
So, you know, if you played him, he'd know that was an A note.
_ So that's another interesting fact.
And the guitars he played was quite interesting.
He played _ throughout, you know, if you're not mad, you've had a Les Paul with P90s.
I think it was a 1956 model because it had the, you know, what's it called?
The, you know, the Nashville style [Gm] bridge or whatever you want to call it.
But he [G] had P90s.
And then from there, but he also used Stratocaster because I think he had this.
There was in flute with Mack a 1954 Strat with a maple neck, a Sunburst that was being used on.
That was actually used on Albatross because Albatross wasn't played on a Les Paul.
It was actually played on a Stratocaster _ with [N] Danny.
And I think Danny's, I'm pretty sure Danny's _ _ playing on Albatross.
I think he did a lot of really clever stuff on Albatross, which he hasn't got recognized for.
I think, you know, don't exactly know who played what, but I think Danny Coen really, really did a lot to that track.
_ _ And they, but in the band they had this 1954 Strat that they share.
But I think that was a Strat that Danny Coen ended up with that was sold to the shop in Southend, Leon C. _
_ And a good friend of mine, actually a very good friend of mine used to drink in a pub with Danny, you know, after the flute with Mack.
So he was, he had a lot of stories that Danny told him. _
And my friend would always say to Danny, you know, are you going to pick up the guitar?
You know, I'll bring you a guitar, come and play.
And Danny was like, no, no, that was, that was the past, you know.
So sad that he never sort of played again.
_ _ But yeah, that's sad news today.
You know, Danny Coen, one of my favorite players.
Certainly check him out if you're a blues guitar player or any other musician, you know, you should know his work.
He's part of the kind of the history of British blues, real, real important player.
_ And I think you should definitely get more recognition for his songwriting, his playing and everything else.
So check him out.
Thanks for watching this video and speak
Really, really sad news for the whole kind of guitar world.
Danny Kirwan was of course the guitar player in the original flute with Mack.
Peter Green _ formed the band and then he asked Danny Kirwan to join.
And, you know, Danny Kirwan was a really big part of that band and he was a very melodic player.
Peter Green's style is very melodic anyway.
You know, if you listen to any of Peter Green's stuff, he's a very melodic player.
You know, the solo is like from, if you listen to Black Magic Woman.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
[N] And he can almost sing the solo.
Danny Kirwan was very much that kind of a player.
He brought some really cool sort of techniques I think to _ the blues guitar idiom.
Such as, [Am] for example, like bending a minor third, sorry, bending a ninth.
So if we [G] were_
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Bending a ninth to a minor third.
_ _ You know, and he had this really kind of [E] heavy vibrato.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [N] And there's a great song called Like It This Way.
And it's very hard to play actually.
_ I think it's in A.
It could be in G.
I can't remember.
But anyway, I'll play it in A.
_ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [B] _
[N] You know, so it's kind of, you know, a really kicking song and, you know, really good.
And also, I mean, obviously the most famous, the [B] song he did with Peter Green.
[A] And _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Abm] he did [Am] all the harmonies, you know.
[Ab] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Db] Which I think the harmonies were, if I [Gb] remember rightly.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[E] Okay, I'm not able to play both [Gb] those notes at the same time.
But, you know, so [F] he was very melodic and he brought that harmony style of guitar playing.
I think, you know, maybe even before the Allman Brothers did it.
Certainly before bands like Thin Lizzy [D] and all those kind of bands did that harmony thing, you know.
[N] So for me, he was a very, he was an innovator and not often talked about.
He's not talked about enough, you know.
I actually tried to meet him a couple of years ago.
I was living in, working in South London _ and doing something with music [D] education.
And I heard that there was a care home near there where he was based.
I don't know if this information was correct, but I kind of made a few inquiries to sort of see if I could actually meet the guy.
But, you know, I wasn't able to.
I mean, he'd actually given up guitar pretty soon after he left Flute With Mac.
Apparently, he wasn't really playing.
I mean, he even like sold his, he had like a 954 Stratocaster and he was living, after Flute With Mac, he went back to Leon C.
And was just hanging around the pubs there drinking, you know, too much.
And _ basically, you know, not playing guitar and he sold all his stuff.
And I think he [N] even sold a 954 Strat to some shop, guitar shop in Leon C.
And so his girlfriend or former girlfriend had to go there with some other guys and get the guitar back, you know,
because the guitar shop had bought it knowing who it was and knowing his situation and bought the guitar for next to nothing.
So I think fortunately he got that guitar back.
I'm not, I'm not sure of the whole story.
And then after that, a lot of people saw him living rough in, _ in the center of London, right, you know, in Hyde Park.
And, you know, people would go in, you know, to see this guy who they hardly recognized.
And he was literally sleeping on the street rough, _ which was real sad.
You know, he's one of the main icons of guitar and from the 60s and he's just sleeping rough in Hyde Park.
And so that was quite sad.
But I think he's some of his family members, not sure how it happened, but some of his family members managed to get him into a care home in London.
And so that he was able, I think, for the rest of his life to spend it in some comfort.
So that's a good news.
But yeah, certainly a sad situation there.
But like I said, his guitar style and his songwriting was brilliant.
One of my favorite songs is called Dragonfly.
_ And you want to check it out because it's really sort of a great sort of style.
And When the Sun is Shining is another really cool song by him.
So he's a great, very melodic _ songwriter.
And I'm just telling you this by memory.
You know, this is what I know about the guy because I'm not reading from a Wikipedia page or something.
I'm just saying [Em] this is what I just know about the guy from _ _ [D] speaking to other musicians.
Another thing about him was interesting was that he had perfect pitch. _
_ So, you know, he could, you know, _ _ [N]
I don't have perfect pitch, I have relative pitch.
But, you know, I've developed that through years of hard work.
But he actually was born with perfect pitch.
So, you know, if you played him, he'd know that was an A note.
_ So that's another interesting fact.
And the guitars he played was quite interesting.
He played _ throughout, you know, if you're not mad, you've had a Les Paul with P90s.
I think it was a 1956 model because it had the, you know, what's it called?
The, you know, the Nashville style [Gm] bridge or whatever you want to call it.
But he [G] had P90s.
And then from there, but he also used Stratocaster because I think he had this.
There was in flute with Mack a 1954 Strat with a maple neck, a Sunburst that was being used on.
That was actually used on Albatross because Albatross wasn't played on a Les Paul.
It was actually played on a Stratocaster _ with [N] Danny.
And I think Danny's, I'm pretty sure Danny's _ _ playing on Albatross.
I think he did a lot of really clever stuff on Albatross, which he hasn't got recognized for.
I think, you know, don't exactly know who played what, but I think Danny Coen really, really did a lot to that track.
_ _ And they, but in the band they had this 1954 Strat that they share.
But I think that was a Strat that Danny Coen ended up with that was sold to the shop in Southend, Leon C. _
_ And a good friend of mine, actually a very good friend of mine used to drink in a pub with Danny, you know, after the flute with Mack.
So he was, he had a lot of stories that Danny told him. _
And my friend would always say to Danny, you know, are you going to pick up the guitar?
You know, I'll bring you a guitar, come and play.
And Danny was like, no, no, that was, that was the past, you know.
So sad that he never sort of played again.
_ _ But yeah, that's sad news today.
You know, Danny Coen, one of my favorite players.
Certainly check him out if you're a blues guitar player or any other musician, you know, you should know his work.
He's part of the kind of the history of British blues, real, real important player.
_ And I think you should definitely get more recognition for his songwriting, his playing and everything else.
So check him out.
Thanks for watching this video and speak