Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!roy@WAIKATO.SCRC.Symbolics.COM From: roy@WAIKATO.SCRC.Symbolics.COM Newsgroups: net.music.gdead Subject: Re: Sound-alike songs Message-ID: <479@sri-arpa.ARPA> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 11:31:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.479 Posted: Thu Aug 8 11:31:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 22:33:27 EDT Lines: 50 From: Roy HarkowDate: Sun, 4-Aug-85 14:29:40 PDT From: ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!wimp@UCB-Vax.ARPA (Jeff Haferman) > There is a song that sounds identical to Minglewood Blues. > When I was at Hershey I knew alot of people thought it was, but I knew > differently. However some people outside told me the name of this tune > was "Ain't Superstitious". Now I really feel stupid for walking into > the Nassau Coliseum show late on 3/29/85, but I missed Ain't Superstitious. > When I asked what the first two songs were I was told that the second > one was a song called Ain't Superstitious that sounded alot like > Minglewood. My new issue of the Golden Road states that the song at > Hershey was called "Down in the Bottom", and that one sounded almost > identical to Minglewood with different words. Can someone clarify if > indeed both of these songs are similiar? This isn't a case of two names > for the same song is it? Help? Well, this might clear it up some, but now I'm a bit confused also. I heard "Ain't Superstitious" for the first time at the 3/29 Nassau show and thought it sounded very much like "Minglewood." However, I was at the 6/21 Alpine show and THOUGHT I heard "Ain't Superstitous" played as the second song of the first set. But the Golden Road has recorded this song in their set lists as "Down in the Bottom." Now, since I've never heard "Down in the Bottom," I can't say whether they're right. But I do know that whatever tune was played at Alpine, the words "Ain't Superstitious" were part of the lyrics. In the Winter '85 issue of The Golden Road (p. 33), we find some history on both "Down in the Bottom" and "I Ain't Superstitious." It seems that BOTH tunes were written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin' Wolf. So it appears that they are distinct songs, but what similarities/differences are there between the two? Also, the description in The Golden Road contains an interesting line: Wolf's "Down in the Bottom" doesn't quite echo "Minglewood" the way the Dead's lone version (11-3-84) did, but Weir and Co. did capture its spirit effectively. So I guess the Dead do make it sound similar to "Minglewood". Any clues? Jeff Haferman Also, is there any difference between "Ain't Superstitious" and "Running Shoes"?