Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan

[IcyPeas]

[prodigitalson]

1. with a nice gtr bit by session man jimmy page

later to achieve his own success with the Yardbirds and another outfit that slips my mind

[IcyPeas]

2. That may or may not be true... it's not quite clear...

Oh yeah, that outfit .... Led... something or other



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy_Gurdy_Man

There is some dispute regarding the musicians who performed on the song. In the booklet that came with Donovan's 1992 double CD, Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964–1976, Allan Holdsworth and Jimmy Page are listed as the electric guitar players and John Bonham and Clem Cattini as drummers on the recording. John Paul Jones, who arranged and played bass on the track (and also booked the session musicians), was reported to have said by email that Clem Cattini played the drums and Alan Parker played the electric guitar.[11] This line-up was confirmed by Cattini.[12] In Donovan's autobiography, he credits Cattini and Bonham for the drums.[6] In a published interview circa 2013, Donovan is quoted as primarily crediting Cattini for the drums but saying he wasn't sure whether Bonham was also involved, and said he and Jones both credit Holdsworth for the guitar.[13]

On Jimmy Page's website, he lists this song as one on which he plays.[14] Engineer Eddie Kramer also cites Jimmy Page as playing on the track, but says that John Bonham did not.[15] In Hannes Rossacher's 2008 documentary Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan, Donovan said that Page was the guitarist; he also asserted that the song ushered in the Celtic rock sound which would lead to Page, Jones, and Bonham forming Led Zeppelin soon afterwards. In Donovan's autobiography, he credited both Page and "Allen Hollsworth" as the "guitar wizards" for the song.[6] However, he also says that "Hollsworth" had played with Blue Mink, which was a band that Alan Parker had played in.[6] In the autobiography, Donovan said that perhaps this session inspired the creation of Led Zeppelin.[6]

[prodigitalson]

3. Sure sounds like him nt

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Boy, That's Some Psychedelic Production

So dense and affected!
Appropriate for the era, though.

[prodigitalson]

5. IKR

Some psychedelic masterpieces from that era fell victim to studio production. Piper at the Gates of Dawn clearly missed the Syd era PF sound. I've read this criticism for years and recent releases of live performances with modern mixing technology from those times bring home the point. But Donovan's stuff is captured as perfectly as his dilated pupils on the cover of Best of.