Very Famous 70S Rock/Pop Song

[sp1814]

This song has a sample from a very famous song from the 70s. Does anyone know what the song is?

it's the guitar riff that kicks in 47secs into the track.

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I'm thinking Genesis, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield???

[TheWinner]

Classical Gas by Mason Williams. I'll try and find a link.

[TheWinner]

[Patsy33]

Exactly what I was thinking, Winner 😁

[sp1814]

TheWinner - you ABSOLUTE HERO. 
 

This has been bugging me for a good couple of years. You've proved yourself more valuable than either my mates and Google.

[retrocop]

If you had Shazam you would of picked it up straight away. How are your guitar lessons progressing btw?

[TheWinner]

Self-taught guitarist, rhythm on electric, fingerstyle on accoustic. Spent HOURS trying to teach myself this, before giving up! 

[TheWinner]

I can play the intro up to 0.50 then it gets tricky as I have trouble barring the chords on an accoustic.  I need to buy a Baby Taylor.

[sp1814]

retrocop

I tried that - but all Shazam gave me was the new song, not the original sample. 

I also tried www.whosampled.com - usually very reliable. It came back with:

Search Results for “obscure clarte”

No results for your search “obscure clarte”

Guitar lessons are coming along fine as long as I avoid all songs that require the F barre chord.

[sp1814]

TheWinner

Classical Gas is WAAAY above my pay grade on guitar.

Here's a tip though...every Oasis song is *extremely* easy.

[drmorgans]

 

I saw Noel Gallagher's High-flying Birds before Christmas. Oasis songs, solo songs, all executed perfectly. The first time Noel spoke to the audience was about 1/2 an hour in, to abuse Aston Villa fans (Utilita in Brum). Not one of nature's frontmen our Noel.

 

[TheWinner]

I've been playing for years now, but have trouble playing barre chords. I play piano/keyboards too, but struggle with octaves. Here's a youtube video for Classical Gas for beginners. I haven't watched it all. 

[andy-hughes]

Of course, you only know what you know - I picked up the 'Classical Gas' construction in the first few seconds. 

But that's because I am old, and I have known and loved it for more than fifty years!

[andy-hughes]

Trivia alert - Mason Williams main claim to fame is not as a musician. 

For years he wad a script writer for The Smothers Brothers, a comedy duo who had their own top rated show for years in the early days of American TV.

 

[Canary42]

Those cardboard cut-outs is just my level musically. 

[TheWinner]

sp1814 don't avoid F.  You DO NOT have to barre it. If I put a ruler in your hand, and you gripped it with your thumb and fingers to keep it there, that is the shape for F without having to barre it. I'll try to find a link. See 2.01 on this link. That's how I play F.

If you then take that same shape up the fretboard it increases by half a tone each time.

i.e. play on fret one = F

same shape but on fret 2 = F#

same shape but on fret 3 = G

same shape but on fret 4 = Ab

same shape but on fret 5 = A 

same shape but on fret 6 = Bb

same shape but on fret 7 = B

etc etc

 

[TheWinner]

I'm surprised sparklykid hasn't contributed to this, as he, too, can play fingerstyle.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1771041.html

[TheWinner]

This is interesting to watch for those who play guitar, its Classical Gas played by Tommy Emmanuel.

[TheWinner]

anybody heard the mondegreen?  at 1.02 it sounds like he's saying Jimmy Tarbuck. 

[TheWinner]

(on the original OP)

[jno]

sure sounded like obscure clarity to me, I couldn't hear it behind the other sounds any more than Shazam could. I recognised it on the fourth attempt.