Marcel Dadi

BigLicks67

I read somewhere that the great Marcel Dadi used to provide TAB books with his early LPs and wonder if any of the older Fretboarders got one of his LPs back in the day and this proved to be the case. If it's true it's a great idea.

Jimbro66

You mean this one?

https://img.discogs.com/QK-zHz8oN-tzNaMF4RODFFkwrus=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7355755-1439661685-5113.jpeg.jpg

BigLicks67

Jimbro66 said:

You mean this one?

https://img.discogs.com/QK-zHz8oN-tzNaMF4RODFFkwrus=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7355755-1439661685-5113.jpeg.jpg

Great cover! : )

GTC

From memory, I think the covers in previous posts are from a re-release of his work. I had the original (which also came with tabs) but it got lost over the years.

Dadi tabs (and a lot more beside) can be found here http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/dadi.htm

His "Blue Finger" arrangement was a regular part of my folk club repertoire back in the day. 

GTC

This is the one I had (picture from eBay):

Jimbro66

GTC said:

Dadi tabs (and a lot more beside) can be found here http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/dadi.htm

His "Blue Finger" arrangement was a regular part of my folk club repertoire back in the day. 

The link gets a DNS error on my phone. This instead maybe?

http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/tab.htm

Blue Finger is a great Jerry Reed tune. Perhaps Yes Ma’am is in a similar vein? There’s often a jazzy element to his tunes which appeals.

BigLicks67

Jimbro66 said:

GTC said:

Dadi tabs (and a lot more beside) can be found here http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/dadi.htm

His "Blue Finger" arrangement was a regular part of my folk club repertoire back in the day. 

The link gets a DNS error on my phone. This instead maybe?

http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/tab.htm

Blue Finger is a great Jerry Reed tune. Perhaps Yes Ma’am is in a similar vein? There’s often a jazzy element to his tunes which appeals.

Yep that link now works, looks like a good site.
I saw Colin Reid many years ago and Bluefinger was a tune he played, he also cited Dadi as a big influence. 

GTC

BigLicks67 said:

Jimbro66 said:

GTC said:

Dadi tabs (and a lot more beside) can be found here http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/dadi.htm

His "Blue Finger" arrangement was a regular part of my folk club repertoire back in the day. 

The link gets a DNS error on my phone. This instead maybe?

http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/tab.htm

Blue Finger is a great Jerry Reed tune. Perhaps Yes Ma’am is in a similar vein? There’s often a jazzy element to his tunes which appeals.

Yep that link now works, looks like a good site.
I saw Colin Reid many years ago and Bluefinger was a tune he played, he also cited Dadi as a big influence. 

Not sure what happened there - thanks for the correction. This should take you straight to the Dadi page http://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/dadi.htm

GTC

Thinking back - I think the more boring album cover in my earlier post may have been the Transatlantic UK release of the French original. It came with an LP-sized tab book.

There were similar albums from other acoustic guitarists. I only came across the Steve McWilliam site out of curiosity from this thread and it contains some more transcriptions from other similar albums I remember - including arrangements of "Silver Swan" and "Nola" ( I still can't master the artificial harmonics in Silver Swan though, even after all these years).

I also remembered buying a CD re-release of Dadi stuff a while back - so I went up to the loft, rummaged around in a box of old CD's and found this. I think you can still find it on Amazon / eBay - no tab book though