Happy Canada Day, y'all! But it's back to the psychedelic '60s, England-style for these two hit cover rekkids from me and John Stackpole (and special guest):
"Tin Soldier" comes courtesy of the great, great Small Faces, released at the very tail end of 1967. Jeez, nobody much even knows about the Faces nowadays, and that's with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood on board. Prior to their drunky, good-time, groovy blooz-rock evolution, and before diminutive Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, there were the Small Faces. They had a sackful of great tunes, from the mod to the psychedelic. I've covered few songs that are more fun to play than this one, and few that are more vein-popping in their vocal demands.
"40,000 Headmen" is 1968 track from Traffic, of Steve Winwood and Dave Mason fame, Jim Capaldi transient quasi-fame and (yuck) Chris Wood non-fame (he of the flute and sax). Total gibberish, but a fun, moody groove to set, with room for some congas and lead guitar and keys and all that.
And one of the best part of these is that Stack and I had the great idea of using the recording process to virtually reforming our second-earliest high school band, and outsourced the bass duties to the one and only Dillo. Huzzah!
Tin Soldier: https://www.box.com/s/rmqla5lxzje32ipnw0y7
40,000 Headmen: https://www.box.com/s/urrr791kj54hlo8bj1ca
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