Lots of people have great midi sites, some of them absolutely HUGE and beautifully maintained; I couldn’t begin to compete with them so instead I’ve put on my site some of the midi files I have programmed myself for use by my band which you might also find useful, they’re also mostly files that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else. None of them have melody lines as they have all been used in a Live context, they’re also not perfect in that they’ve been programmed with not too much correcting done afterwards in order to keep the feel. This also means that some are just Bass and Drums as guitars are played live, but if ya can use ‘em feel free….Cheers and enjoy. Dave
My favourite band of all time along with the Who,
this is Genesis’ Abacab
The Beatles had to get a look in; I loved the
beginning of the album so I did an Abbey
Road medley
I wasn’t overkeen on Clapton during his Delaney
& Bonnie period but I still did a rough version of After Midnight
My favourite album by Roxy Music I decided to do
the title track Avalon
As far as I remember this was the only “single”
success that Cream had. This is Badge
At some stage one has to do an Elvis, we chose Burning Love , Ya probably gotta know the
arrangement for this!!!
Title track of one of Joe Cocker’s mid-period
albums Civilised Man
A song Henry liked so I did a programme for John
Paul Young’s Love of the common people
This was (along with blinded by the light) my
favourite Mannfred Mann song Davy's on the
road again, PS did anyone know he’s a South African??
I enjoyed programming this as all Vince Clarke’s
(of Yazoo) instruments are Monophonic, very few chords, but please Don't Go
just yet
Best song
Chris de Burgh ever did……OK except for Spanish Train…..Don't pay the Ferryman ,bit rough as I did
it in a hurry but it had a vibe
I’ve always been a Police and Sting fan, I did Don't Stand so Close to me a long time
ago, probably some of this one on the net, but here ‘tis anyway
Bloody Ozzies get in everywhere, Cricket, Rugby,
Dammit they’re good Down
under ,Lots of versions of this around too…this is mine
Depeche Mode…hmmm…never quite got into most of
their stuff but I loved Get the Balance
Right, so I did it!!!
Spandau Ballet’s Gold,
good song, not a lot more to say really
Someone asked for Van Morrison’s Have I told you Lately as their 1st
Dance at a wedding about 10 years ago, I ended up liking the song
Henry liked Robert Palmer’s Johnny and Mary, this was before the days
of midi, but we transferred it from Oberheim drum box, (remember them) which I
originally did it on to MIDI , …please don’t ask how!!
Foreigner’s Juke
Box Hero, great song to do live if your singer can hit the notes, saw ‘em
do it live in J’oburg…… Brill!!!!
Originally did a send up of Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon but people got so cross we
had to do it properly
Back in 1985 in Port Elizabeth I recorded Mark
Wilson, a fellow SA muso’s, album. “Roadsongs” (would you believe in a garage
at the Holiday Inn there), he covered this tune and while we were at it I also
fell in love with Jackson Browne’s The
Loadout
There are a few Midi’s of Jethro Tull’s Locomotive Breath out there, this one I
did ain’t perfect but it’s got balls!!! (but no guitar…you gotta
do that!!!)
My favourite Stevie Wonder song is………MasterBlaster
Bit of da Blues man… my version of John Mayall’s
version of Me and my Woman
No not the Temptations song (there’s lots of those
around) but the Madness song …My
girl
Only Bass and Drums on this file of the Knack’s My Sharona
I f you have to play Laid back then there are few
nicer songs to play than Chris Rea’s On the
Beach
Chris de Burgh’s Patricia
the Stripper nuff said !!
Alan Parsons…Prime
Time sorry ..no guitar here you’ll ave to play it again
No guitar on the Golden Earring classic Radar Love, this was actually not
programmed by me but done brilliantly by another SA musician “Marshall Harmse”
(producer of ABBOTT & CRABB’s 2nd album)
Supertramps School,
this starts where the drums come in (no harmonica or guitar intro) listen for
the keyboard solo played by an old friend “Pete Hattingh”
Another band I was never really into, but I did
enjoy R E M’s Sidewinder….dammit no guitar again!!!
A good
singalong; I programmed it but we never really played Susanah much
Now we’re talking, this was a Steve Winwood song,
which Joe Cocker covered and as usual did better than the original, it’s
Cocker’s version of Talking back to the
night
Ub40’s 1st album came out in about 1979
or so and I still think that Tyler from
that album was one of the best things they ever did,,,, sorreee no geeet
The best band I ever saw live was The Who, 1972,
Melody /Maker concert at the Kensington Oval, They finished the set off
(literally) with Won't get Fooled again
I don’t think many people programmed this one, my mate in Sodwana (one of the
most beautiful places in the world) Mark White originally did the synth part
which I used totally and the Drums, if you have a Sound Canvas try it on there
as there are Cutoff NRPN’s embedded in the synth part which work quite nicely
….PS please play the guitar part
So I had to get corny sooner or later, when I got
married to my darlin’ Susie at the wedding I serenaded her with Cilla Black’s You're my World…this was that programme,
and here…for now..endeth the midi files
Now that we’ve got to this point I’d like to say
that if you want SERIOUS midi files then speak to Pete or Jan at HandsOn MIDI South Africa, they literally
have it ALL