Monday, January 27, 2025

Four versions of "She's Not There"

The fourth version is the one we played in "The Saint Matthew Passion," a band I played in back in 1970-71 or so.* Were were a rock band with horns, trumpet, sax, and trombone. We modeled ourselves on Chicago Transit Authority (CTA, which later became just Chicago) and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. I have no idea where we got our version from, maybe Jon (our leader) just made it up. But it certainly wasn't modeled on one of the versions in this post. It's was The Zombies' song. I like the Santana version (this is the first time I've heard it). But I love the Vanilla Fudge version, which I knew back when their record first came out.







*NOTE: FWIW, we played it on our final gig, when I had a mystical experience. I doubt that that particular song had anything to do with it. It was but the vehicle. And the experience, the white-out and the opening-up, didn't happen during the song proper, but during an introduction that could have gone with just about any song. Whatever. It shook me. I'm still vibrating, ever so little, but still.

1 comment:

  1. Vanilla Fudge!
    The Zombies!
    She's not there!
    Utter. Luxury.
    Just played the Neco Nic Cave version too.
    Ta.
    DJ away Bill.

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