Diskussion:Sally Free and Easy

Wie Jon Mark Ray Davies zum Sitar-Sound des Kinks-Hits "See My Friends" inspiriert hat

In mehreren Interviews hat der legendäre Produzent Shel Talmy darauf hingewiesen, dass es ein Lied von Jon Mark war, das Ray Davies von den Kinks zu dem Sitar-Klangbild von "See My friends" inspiriert hat. Leider blieb Jon Marks Album "Sally Free and Easy", das Talmy 1965 Davies vorgespielt hat, unveröffentlicht, weshalb die Kinks irrtümlich die Lorbeeren einstreiften, als erste Sitar-Klänge in die populäre Musik integriert zu haben:

Shel Talmy who was the producer of the record "See My Friends" states in more than one interview that the song had been inspired by Jon Mark:

1.) Shel Talmy: Jon Mark "was absolutely a folk singer. It was only later on that he started getting into jazz and Indian. He's the first person that introduced me to sort of Indian music, and ragas and things like that, which is how [the Kinks'] "See My Friends" came about." SHEL TALMY INTERVIEW

2.) Shel Talmy: "In fact I did try early on [to record acoustic music], with a duo called Jon and Alan, and Jon became Jon Mark of the Mark-Almond Band. [Jon] was a great innovator. He's the first person, come to think of it, who ever told me about Bob Dylan. He said, "Watch--this guy's going to be sensational." Jon was the first guy that ever brought Indian music to my attention, and in fact wrote a song that was sort of based on a drone, a folkish type song, that I recorded with him. I played that to Ray Davies, who was so enamored with it that he went out and wrote "See My Friends" [one of the first Indian-influenced rock songs]." SHEL TALMY INTERVIEW: PART TWO.

3.) Shel Talmy: "'See My Friends' was a real groundbreaker! The evolution of that came about as I was recording Jon Mark, who eventually became part of Mark-Almond. He was a very good songwriter and turned me on to Indian music - ragas and all that kind of stuff. He wrote a song that incorporated an Indian drone, which I loved! I asked him if he'd mind if I played it for Ray Davies, and he said, "Be my guest." I did … and Ray came back the next day with 'See My Friends'. There weren't any sitars available at that time, so we re-tuned the guitars and double-tracked it to get the drone effect. It was the first record on the charts to have a sitar type sound on it. I heard it recently and it really holds up!" SHEL TALMY INTERVIEWED BY ARTIE WAYNE, PART TWO. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Popmuseum (talk • contribs) 18:30, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Talmys Ausführungen laden möglicherweise zu Missverständnissen ein, weil Jon Mark den titelgebenden Folk-Klassiker Sally Free and Easy mit Sitar aufgenommen hat. Für See My Friends waren aber die Sitar-Anklänge von Marks Lied Baby I Got a Long Way to Go prägend, das Talmy im Sommer 1965 Ray Davies vorgespielt hat, der das Sitar-Klangbild in See My Friends mittels entsprechend gestimmter Gitarren und Double-Tracking nachgeahmt hat. Demgemäß habe ich die entsprechende Artikel-Passage jetzt präzisiert.. --Popmuseum (Diskussion) 17:11, 12. Feb. 2021 (CET)