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Location: Katmandu | This may be unbeknownst to most but the track "Wild World" on the original Cat Stevens album Tea for the Tillerman (1970) was actually recorded on an Ovation.
Here's what the producer, Paul Samwell-Smith, has to say on the production of "Wild World" some thirty-odd years later:
"For this track Steve's [Cat Stevens'] guitar was an Ovation, and I used the electric pickup signal on the left of the stereo and the acoustic microphone signal on the right, which gave it a very present and immediate sound. "Another drums and bass overdub job. Wonderful drum track coaxed out of Harvey Burns the drummer by Steve [Cat Stevens], standing in front of the drum kit conducting, and the double bass from John Ryan growls wonderfully throughout. John's bass was held together with band-aids and duct tape, and you can hear it rattling."
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Location: Pittsburgh | Cool. I wore out a couple of Tea albums on 8-track back in the day. Thanks Leonard! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | You remember the guy who played 12-string for him? His name was Alun Davies and he was a real Ovation nut. I met him once by accident. He was with a band called "The Mark - Almond Band". I had gone to see them at the La Paloma Theater in Encinitas and they came piling out the side door just as we were walking by. We stopped and smoked a little with them and Alun was treating ME like a celebrity because of my Ovation experience. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | CanterburyStrings - 2016-04-04 6:59 AM
We stopped and smoked a little with them and Alun was treating ME like a celebrity because of my Ovation experience.
As well he should!!!!  SO Good to see you Alison!!
I LOVED Cat Stevens, Father and Son, Oh Very Young, all of his hits, I was devastated when he quit because of religious reasons. |
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Location: NJ | The last couple recent albums (under th'name Yusuf) are quite good . . . |
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Location: Katmandu | CanterburyStrings - 2016-04-04 6:59 AM
You remember the guy who played 12-string for him? His name was Alun Davies and he was a real Ovation nut. I met him once by accident. He was with a band called "The Mark - Almond Band". I had gone to see them at the La Paloma Theater in Encinitas and they came piling out the side door just as we were walking by. We stopped and smoked a little with them and Alun was treating ME like a celebrity because of my Ovation experience.
Now that you mention it, I also met Alun "The Guitar" Davies rather recently (in 2008?) in London after a Cat Stevens concert. He was so kind to sign my old Ovation Celebrity with a white marker, writing "Play well -- Alun," and that's what I've been trying to do ever since. He seemed a very kind person.
I firmly believe he brought much to Cat Stevens' music. You should check out his high guitar part in the song "How Can I Tell" by Cat Stevens, it's simply unbelievably beautiful.
His own solo album "Daydo" is also worth checking out. Some great tunes on it, a real raw diamond much like Cat Stevens' early album Mona Bone Jakon. "How long, how long since you've heard that song..."
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