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Okay, everybody shut up OK? 'Cos now comes the verse bit:
Hurdy Gurdy Mushroom Man
posted by pompomtom at 8:54 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Hurdy Gurdy Mushroom Man
posted by pompomtom at 8:54 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Well hello there.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 8:54 PM on September 5, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 8:54 PM on September 5, 2011 [2 favorites]
A couple of fFapjax's Flashes From The Past on hurdy gurdies.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:00 PM on September 5, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:00 PM on September 5, 2011 [2 favorites]
"fFapjax". Hmm...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:01 PM on September 5, 2011
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:01 PM on September 5, 2011
Boy, did Donovan put out some great serial killer music or what?
posted by codswallop at 9:01 PM on September 5, 2011 [7 favorites]
posted by codswallop at 9:01 PM on September 5, 2011 [7 favorites]
At least none of the three links on the main post cut off in the middle, because then we'd have Two and a Half Hurdy Gurdy Men.
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:05 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:05 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
I haven't heard this song before. It was quite a suprise when I head the butthole surfer's version.
posted by Chorian at 9:09 PM on September 5, 2011
posted by Chorian at 9:09 PM on September 5, 2011
Even though I'm pretty sure my mother had this on LP back in my childhood, I'll forever associate it with David Fincher's Zodiac. A brilliant, underrated movie.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 9:15 PM on September 5, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 9:15 PM on September 5, 2011 [4 favorites]
You included the Buttholes....
essential.
actually all three were. A damned great song with three essential recordings, each taking it somewhere unique.
nice post.
posted by philip-random at 9:58 PM on September 5, 2011
essential.
actually all three were. A damned great song with three essential recordings, each taking it somewhere unique.
nice post.
posted by philip-random at 9:58 PM on September 5, 2011
This is my favorite Led Zeppelin song.
posted by Hey Dean Yeager! at 10:16 PM on September 5, 2011
posted by Hey Dean Yeager! at 10:16 PM on September 5, 2011
hearing the Butthole's take on this always puts a smile on my face.
posted by mannequito at 10:34 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by mannequito at 10:34 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
I remember living in Toronto and my roommate insisting we get high and listen to the buttholes version of the song at full volume. It was hilarious.
posted by joelf at 10:37 PM on September 5, 2011
posted by joelf at 10:37 PM on September 5, 2011
Good post, ffapjax. Always ready for flights out from Donovania.
An anecdote - way back in the day, on a visit to England from Sweden I spent a couple of days at Don's blue thatched cottage. It had a big seagull painted across the front.
There were other musicians there apart from Donovan like his mate Mac MacLeod (later in the danish group Hurdy Gurdy) and Mick Softly We spent the evenings playing long smokey collective improvisations. In retrospect it seems those evenings were gestation periods for songs that appeared later on record. Hurdy Gurdy Man being one of them.
His manager kept the tapes I'd made. Said he'd post them to me later. I'm still waiting.
posted by jan murray at 10:43 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
An anecdote - way back in the day, on a visit to England from Sweden I spent a couple of days at Don's blue thatched cottage. It had a big seagull painted across the front.
There were other musicians there apart from Donovan like his mate Mac MacLeod (later in the danish group Hurdy Gurdy) and Mick Softly We spent the evenings playing long smokey collective improvisations. In retrospect it seems those evenings were gestation periods for songs that appeared later on record. Hurdy Gurdy Man being one of them.
His manager kept the tapes I'd made. Said he'd post them to me later. I'm still waiting.
posted by jan murray at 10:43 PM on September 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Brix Smith's version (direct link to an mp3 - couldn't find it on youtube).
posted by squalor at 11:38 PM on September 5, 2011
posted by squalor at 11:38 PM on September 5, 2011
I really dug the Steve Hilllage link. I`ve seen many of the live videos out there and I can say this one is particularly "à point", drumming, vocal, mood, guitar obviously, etc... Yes indeed a blast from the unadulterated 1970s!
posted by Meatafoecure at 4:59 AM on September 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Meatafoecure at 4:59 AM on September 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Not going to verify this because if it is not true, I don't want to know: George Harrison played guitar on the original.
posted by victors at 8:03 AM on September 6, 2011
posted by victors at 8:03 AM on September 6, 2011
I first heard the Buttholes version of it, and loved how twisted and evil they made it. Then years later I heard Donovan's version and it was just as twisted and evil and my mind was blown again.
posted by Bookhouse at 2:18 PM on September 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Bookhouse at 2:18 PM on September 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
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