This website is created
by Adrie Meijer,
Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.
I have made two other websites
you might
enjoy:
Tim
Hardin Guitar Tabs
Tim
Buckley
Guitar Tabs
Read
the emails from Fred
Neil friends and fans:
| Thank you, thank you, thank you for your web site.
I too met Fred in the Grove in the 60's when I was 15,
16, 17. Started playing listening to Vince and Fred.
Travellin' shoes, travelling shoes, can't seem to lose
those travelling' shoes, gotta go down. ..
And so I hit the road at 17 with a converted Gibson
Jumbo (converted to a 12 string) on my back. He was an important part
of my adolescence.
I don't think anyone who met Fred could help but be
moved by him.
steve |
| Hi
I just blundered onto your site . What a pleasant surprise to see that people are still out there responding to Freddie's music. I knew Fred and Vinnie in those days when we all played the coffee houses in the Grove . First the coffee house on Douglas Road The Cafe Trivia around the corner where I first heard Fred . He was playing a Martin D18 and just grooving on "Linin' Track" Never forgot that night . David Crosby and I would go to Miguel Company's apartment on eighth street and watch him build nylon string guitars , tres', and laouds. Crosby had an early 12 string I forget the make but Bob Gibson had one . Anyway I asked Miguel if he could make me a 12 and after many translations and clarifications I had the first Company 12 string a giant 12 fret classical bodied 12 string Brazilian Rosewood and an air seasoned German spruce top. It was in a word LOUD. Vince loved it Freddie and he both got theirs and thus it began for a lot of us . Thanks for the great site you Dutch guys are great ! I remember a busker one night in Leewarden singing a Fred Neil song in the centrum. It was fun telling him that as i remember Fred did that song in dropped D not G . Which reminds me I always did "Sweet Mama " B7 , E, I think thats the way he did it . Just a thought . On Fred's last album ( the unreleased one ) he recorded all songs written by his friends ; Peter Childs Panama Red Bobby Charles and I am proud to say of mine "Jazmine Town"for which I am forever grateful . Heres something you will enjoy from that era and for some reason Fred was left out of this edit . A Flic alum , Peter Neff did it . I'll have to ask him why. Fred Died shortly after 9-11 and we scattered his ashes in the Gulfstream from the deck of a schooner, Sailing home that afternoon we sang Vinny, Gay and I, Martha, Rick O'Barry, Rick and Ellen Steinenger, Judy, Justin, Tyson and Joe Mara were all aboard that day singing Fred's songs and I swear to God we saw Dolphins and the wind blew out of the northeast. Estrella will understand Cheers Bob and Gay Ingram Cocoanut Grove Fl Hi, My name is Estrella (Estra) Berosini.
Now that the oil industry has decided that ecology is a
credible subject,
Eric and Ric O'Barry are working toward making the film even better.
You
can keep tabs on when that film will come about by going to
www.thetripsfestival.com
From there you can get in touch with Eric Christensen to let you know
when
you can see Fred's unbelievably beautiful performance of the Dolphin
Song.
Thank you again for creating this Fred Neil website.
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| Hello Adrie,
Greetings to you from Seattle, Washington, USA, where I currently live, but, I grew up near Coconut Grove, Florida where Fred Neil lived and performed. First of all, thank you for posting your Fred Neil Guitar Tabs on the internet. My daughter gave me a new Martin guitar for Christmas, and shortly thereafter I went looking on the internet to see if anyone had posted any of Fred Neil's songs on the internet! It so happens I am one of those rare (and very fortunate) folks who, when I was 18 and 19 years old, got to hang out in the coffee houses of Miami, Florida, and watch and listen to Fred Neil and Vince Martin perform live numerous times and just a few feet in front of me! I always liked Fred
best when he performed alone,
and whenever I knew he was in town performing I would head over to the
place -- sometimes I would take my guitar, as it was as much a hang-out
as a performance place. Fred would get up on the small stage
at a
coffee house called The Raven's Nest with his 12 string guitar, sit on
a tall stool, hunch over the guitar, head hanging down, and play and
sing
all the songs you have heard on recordings and posted online.
As time went on, we began asking Fred when he was going to cut a record, and one night he said he and Vince Martin were going up to New York soon to make a record. He said it would be a few months away before we could get the record. Of course, it was almost a year, and the day it hit the record stores I bought one of the first copies. But, I was a little disappointed in it -- it just didn't sound like what I had been hearing in person for over a year. There was something very special seeing and hearing them in person. Fred's voice was much lower in person, much "darker" and moving. And, what was with all the other musicians playing with them? Some of it was cool, but I wanted to hear them like I was back in the coffee house. I had been spoiled by all the live solo performances! Right now as I write this I have on my headphones and am listening to a CD of Fred's recordings I made from my LP records. It's all I have left of Fred, other than the wonderful memories of being there with him in the same room as he basically played just for me and a few other of his fans as we all sat at the front tables. I wish I had gotten to know him, but I was mostly in awe of him at that age, and trying my best to figure out how to play his songs at home on my guitar. Tomorrow night, the folk performer Chris Smither is in town at a small club, and we are going to go hear him. Maybe he will even do a song that Fred performed. Well, enough from me for now, I am glad to find your tabs online, and to know that Fred Neil has some other fans far and wide. Thanks again, and very best wishes to you, Mike
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| Adrie, Your website
just keeps getting better!
I was lucky enough to see Tim Hardin and Tim Buckley perform back in
the
60's. I never got to see Fred Neil but I've always loved his music.
Thanks
for putting up the tabs. Who's next? Bert Jansch? Best of luck, Ed
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| Hi Adrie,
This evening, I was listening to the Beautiful Souths version of Everybody's Talking. I've heard the song so many times before but I listened to it a bit more closely tonight and thought what a beautiful, hopeful little piece of poetry it was. So, I was wondering who wrote it, got on the web, and one thing led to another which in turn led to your website! I was thrilled to hear the bootleg version of the song, and was struck by Fred Neil's resonant voice; the bootleg wasn't quite as bad as you had led people to believe! Thanks for sharing the music with everyone. Regards,
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| It has been awhile since I have been to the site. I
read with great
pleasure the note from Mike. I say with great pleasure because I felt
and
feel the same way. I sat many a nite at Vince Martin's feet in the
Flick
coffeehouse in Miami listening to him sing and play and talk to the
audience.
I was in the audience the last time Fred and Vinny played together at
the
Gaslight in Coconut Grove. I knew then I was seeing something
special,
but I had no idea just how magical a night it would be. Fred Neil's
music
made such an impression on my life. After I left Miami, I could not
find
anyone where I was that even knew who he was. I have spent nearly 40
years
telling people that although Nilson sang "Everybody's Talkin'" It was
Fred
Neil who wrote it. And no one else has ever really done the song
justice.('cept
maybe Vinny. Thanks again for putting Fred's music where the world can
have access to it. I think he would be pleased.
Johnne
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| Dear Adrie
Just a note of thanks
for your fine work of providing
guitar tabs for Fred Neil songs. As a long time Fred fan as
well
as a guitar player and singer of Fred's songs, your website was a
welcome
addition and has helped me immensley. I have tried for years
to find
a songbook, but if there is one out there, it has eluded me.
Roger
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| Dear Adrie,
Thank you so much for the Fred Neil guitar tabs. Vince Martin got me my first real paying gig at the Gaslight South there in the Grove in '67. -----James D. 
Hi Adrie, great site
man! Your site is the best source
for Fred's songs. I've got a photocopy of the Fred Neil
songbook
and most of the stuff in there is
I Know You Rider - Vince Martin & Fred Neil Main riff e---3-1-3---------------3-1-3-|
G/G7/G
F
Bb
D
F
G
G/G7/G
Etc. All the best! Chris F
 Hi Adrie, I just found your website and wanted to say thank you, thank you! It's a brilliant resource (and very elegant too!) A fantastic tribute to Fred's songs. By the way, I visited Nijmegan early this year for a conference at the University. I spent a day exploring - I walked down from Stevenskerk through the old town then up to the castle ruins to look out across the river on a clear, cold february day. It's a beautiful town. Anyway, thanks again for the tabs! Celena.
Adrie, Hello and thanks for the great web sites! Just as your Email from Mike says, I too grew up in Miami very close to the Grove. We (my best friends at the time) always attended the Flick (basically on the U of M Campus) and the Gaslight South in the Grove. I saw Fred, Vince and Fred, as well as so many others so often that I can not even remember how many times I saw him and was always amazed at how great a singer and writer he was. To see Fred
by himself with that Miguel
12 String or Martin is honestly indescribable! His low voice and honest
candor.
I played
rock guitar in a band in High School
and College but I had an acoustic and because of Fred, I had to have a
Miguel 12 as did other friends of mine.
I imagine
that anyone who writes to you
who lived in Miami and saw Fred live in the coffee houses tell you the
same story over and over. I also would believe that even
though those
of us who were followers and went always but never meet each other
because
we were with our own little clicks would recognize each others face
today
no matter where we are scattered across America if we ran into each
other
now in the Grove or at the park in the Grove.
Kent Sonenberg/Owner
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| Adrie-
Thank you very much for transcribing and chording the Fred Neil tunes. I am one person who thinks he was a national treasure, and when I was part of the folk scene back in the '60's I sang many of his tunes, often without a guitar. I did have a really nice guitar part for Blues on the Ceiling that someone showed me long long ago. I performed it everywhere I went. I'll be learning the chords now, and even though I can hardly carry a tune, I'll at least be doing Fred's songs again. Best way in the world to keep someone alive. Best regards,
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song Candy Man that Roy Orbison made into
a hit. Then he performed it for us.