We continue withy the conversation with Soraya Diebra where we stopped it yesterday.






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"Wand'rin' Star" was a UK number one single for Lee Marvin for three weeks in March 1970.
It was originally written by Alan J. Lerner (lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) for the stage musical Paint Your Wagon in 1951. When the film of the musical was made in 1969 Lee Marvin took the role of prospector Ben Rumson. Not a natural singer Marvin nevertheless sang all of his songs in the film, rejecting the idea of miming to another singer's voice. Despite the film being a box office flop, the soundtrack became a success. Orchestrated and arranged by Nelson Riddle, Marvin's version of the song "Wand'rin Star" becoming an unlikely number one single in the UK for him, famously keeping The Beatles at number two with their single Let It Be. Marvin never released a follow up single so is classed as a one hit wonder.
The song was played at Joe Strummer's funeral.
A sound-alike cover appeared on the 1970 album Top of the Pops, Volume 10, with one reviewer using terms like "laryngitic croak" and "gargling gargoyles" to describe how he felt about the cover. [1]
| Uno de los objetivos que nos pusimos al empezar esta aventura fue traer a intérpretes de Barcelona y alrededores, preguntarles y ofreceros sus gustos, inquietudes y opiniones. Hemos tenido la oportunidad de entrevistar a Soraya Diebra, bajista de "Los Eléctricos" enchufados y guitarrista de "Los Eléctricos" desenchufados. En ambos casos, también voz acompañante. | ![]() | One of our goals we stated when we started this blog was to find musicians from Barcelona, to talk with them and to bring to you their feelings and opinions. We have had the opportunity to "talk" with Soraya Diebra, "Los Eléctricos" bassist when plugged and "Los Eléctricos" guitarrist when unplugged. In both cases, she plays also chorus. |

| Soraya nació el 8 de junio de 1978 (apuntando para felicitarla), es géminis (como los buenos, jeje) y va camino de completar su 31 vuelta al sol. Sin embargo, no parece cansada. Como sea que la entrevista es algo larga, la dividiremos en pequeñas píldoras para que sus fans puedan degustarlas con la tranquilidad que requieren. Empezamos con la píldora primera: | Soraya was born on juny, 8th 1978 (you can book this date and go to her mySpace or Facebook to wish her a happy birthday), she's gemini and she's going to end her 31 journey around the sun. Despite this effort, she don't look tired. We think he interview we have made is too long for a single post, then we are going to split it in three pills you can taste relaxed. We start with the first pill: |
| ¿Tocas algún otro instrumento? Aporreo la batería cuando me dejan :). ¿A qué edad empezaste con la música? Vaya… esto me recuerda que los años pasan! Jejee.. A los 7 años recuerdo pillar una febrada grande y coger una caja de cartón de un juego de los Fraggle Rock, le puse gomas de pollo y practicaba ritmos que me inventaba jejee.. sí sí.. mis principios fueron así, a partir de ese día pedí una guitarra Si que fue temprana la vocación. ¿Cómo empezaste a tocar algo más en serio? En cuanto tuve la primera guitarra me apunté a clases en el colegio. Allí aprendía acordes y un poco de blues gracias a un compañero de clase que en algún hueco me enseñaba como tocar una base de blues, buf.. que buenos recuerdos, aquello empezaba a sonar realmente bien jeje.. por cierto el compañero es Alex TNT, grandes bolos y giras con grandes músicos hace ahora. | ![]() | ¿Do you play some other instrument? I hammer drums when they aloow me :). ¿What age did you start with music? Oh… this remembers me that years go on! Jejee.. I remember being ill when I was 7yo and I took a cardborad box from a Fraggle Rock game, I put it some elastic bands (those used in chicken) and I practice rithms I was inventing myself jejeee... yes yes... that was the way I started; since that day I asked for a guitar You really started soon. ¿How did you start playing music more seriously? As soon I got my first guitar I went to classes at school. There I learned some chords and a bit of blues because there was a classmate who teached me in some free time haw to play a blues basis, buf.. nice to remember, it started to sound quite well jeje.. the classmate was Alex TNT, big shows and gigs with good musicians he's doing roght now. |

| ¿Conoces a Colin Hodgkinson? A mí me parece alucinante lo que este hombre es capaz de sacarle a un bajo. Sabía que fue uno de los bajistas de Whitesnake. Inceible el video que me has enlazado. No lo había visto antes. Genial. ¿Qué bajistas te gustan más a tí? ¿Por qué? La verdad es que no tengo ningún bajista favorito. De vez en cuando chafardeo videos por el youtube, de Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius entre otros, y descubro varios bajistas alucinantes pero como no me gusta el abuso de técnicas los grandes bajistas me llegan a empalagar un poco, aunque los admiro por el trabajo realizado hasta llegar ahí, pero no me llenan. Alguien que me gusta escuchar y analizar es el exbajista de los Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman, muy personal y Sting. | ![]() | ¿Do you know Colin Hodgkinson? For me is amazing what this man is able to do with his bass guitar. I knew he was one of the Whitesnake bassists. It's ofSabía que fue uno de los bajistas de . It's incredible the video you linked. I didn't knew it. Great. ¿Who are your preferred bass players? I don't really have a preferred bass player. I should look some videos at youtube, Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius and otherss, I discover amazing bass players but I don't like the techical exces and I find the big ones rather cloying, even if I admire them for all the work done to reach that point, but they don't fulfill me. Someone I really like to hear and analyze is the Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, really personal and Sting. |
| ¿Y guitarristas? Lo mismo que la anterior respuesta, como no me gustan los adornos en exceso jeje.. es difícil elegir un buen guitarrista que no abuse de ello. Si tuviera que destacar a alguien sería a Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Keith Richards, en blues me encanta BB King, y Jordi Egea! Creo que Soraya desconocía que mi primer concierto fue el de Rory Gallagher en el Palacio de los Deportes de Montjuich. Algo inolvidable. | ![]() | ¿What about guitar players? Same as before, I don't like too much ornaments jeje.. I0s difficult to choose a guitarrist who don't do that. If I must choose somebody they will be Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Keith Richards, more bluesy I like BB King, y Jordi Egea! I guess Soraya didn't know the fact that the fist rock show I attended was Rory Gallagher at the Palacio de los Deportes de Montjuich. Unforgetable. |
| Seguimos revisando la lista de los mejores riffs. Hoy saltamos al puesto 30 para traer Wild Thing, uno de los temas más versioneados e interpretados de la historia. | Following our series about the best riffs today we jumo to the 30th position to talk aboout Wild Thing, one of the most played and covered pieces. |
| Wild Thing fue escrita por Chip Taylor y grabada originalmente por Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones; pero no sería hasta su grabación por The Troggs que se convertiría en un éxito que no ha dejado de rodar. | Wild Thing was written by the songwritter Chip Taylor and originally recorded by Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones; but was with the cover made by The Troggs it became a real success that has grown time by time. |
When Chip Taylor originally demoed this basic three-chord song in 1965, he didn't take it too seriously. He later told Rolling Stone magazine: "I was on the floor laughing when I was through." Taylor added in Mojo magazine September 2008: "'Wild Thing' came out in a matter of minutes. The pauses and the hesitations are a result of not knowing what I was going to do next." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 4)
| This time we will spend the complete post showing a samll part of the existing covers of this song. You can go through the links to get te tabs ans more funny information. | En esta ocasión vamos a dedicar la entrada a mostraros diferentes versiones de este tema. Podéis usar los enlaces para conseguir tablaturas o para obtener más información curiosa sobre ella. |

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"Anyplace Is Paradise" in a TOTALLY different arrangement! I've always thought of this song as a ballad, instead of the quite awkward (at least to my ears)) up-tempo version of the original. I simply can't get away from the fact that I think the very beautiful lyrics initially was meant to be arranged as a ballad, but that's my own personal opinion, of course.And I've searched the Elvis one, of course, to put them togheter here. I've found a nice photo tribute to him and also a third one from a colombian guy called Marco. I hope you will enjoy the mix.
And if you by any chance think that it sounds like I've filled my cramped studio space with a female choir I have to disappoint you. It's Roland's cheapest S-10 sampler handling the choir bit (sssh, don't spread the word!!), to every diehard rock'n roll fanatics disgrace, I'd imagine?
Oh well, ya gotta be a bid adventurious sometime, even if it hurts, lol! I promise to upload a rocker as my next 'noise polution projectt', he, he!