Daniel Mantey - 'Pressed Rat & Warthog' - (1667 version!)

[@BurntWeeny435]

I love this! Thank you

[@winterland3253]

Awesome! God bless

[@crowbone8136]

Absolutely great! Thanks

[@LaymanRobert]

F&knand soooocooool Thank you from the bottom of my heart! !

[@LaymanRobert]

And Yes. I am VERY Cream compliant.... thank the true sweet lord - Art - In The Sunshine of your Love and this !! - one my favorites of one of my favorite (if not "the") groups of my era

[@seanacameron8940]

Ever so lovely !! Thank you xoxoxoxo

[@DanielPJMMAS]

Thank you very much.

[@dieterheinrich8377]

Wonderful!

[@onoyudont]

Happy Christmas '24. I've got this immediately following Ginger's WOF original on a Yule playlist.Oh btw , Jack's masterful,weaving bass lines on the song's fantastic ,manic outro were 'inspired" by "The Cutty Wren" a really old ,old English folk song.

[@coranderk]

very enjoyable

[@RaysDad]

Bonnie Prince Charlie has closed down his shoppe....

[@verticaldude]

Daniel, this piece is exceotional. You've deinitely sent this one back in time. I can hear it in a scottish film score. Worth every bit of those 3 days. Be well

[@donnarawlinsfrench220]

Daniel, this is gorgeous. I'd love to think that this might be played at the Catankerous One's funeral! I'm sure he'd generously smirk!

[@onoyudont]

lol Ginger would say "there'll be T shirts and posters for sale at my wake':)

[@DanielPJMMAS]

Hi, if you are still there? I FINALLY figured out what I had done with those fabulous bass lines. I had written them out to play, but, I was then using a bass viol to do the bass part, could not manage those well on that, so put them in the organ LEFT HAND! Unfortunately, you can't really hear them at all in the ruckus, but there they basically are. I am almost done with a new version of the piece, USING a bass guitar, and those parts will be much more noticeable. Coming soon!

[@jonstanton3595]

Daniel Mantey hey Dan where did the Swiss handbell go and what happened to Felix's Infuse recognition of What ginger said well my God I know he's Gentry but Jack was Ginger to their post Scott when was angry and Heather wasn't an Clapton was the neutralizing force he was the neutralizing force oh this God damn Google or else I got a mouth full of marbles anyway read between the lines it's so very very well I don't proofread so how would I know until after the fact so don't let anything negative contaminated put positive out of it because

[@Walkingshadow1]

Reciting the poem could be very tricky. I didn't really realize it until I heard the MSG concert, where Cream did Pressed Rat and Warthog.....but on the Wheels of Fire version the recitation is actually very good. The live version is not, and that's what made me appreciate how well it was done on the album. I always loved Clapton's guitar work at the end of that song as well. They were at their creative peak during those sessions, no doubt about it.

[@DanielPJMMAS]

You know, I had Jack's bass lines written out, and they just did not fit the bass viol or organ, BUT I now have a bass guitar, and will try to add those fabulous bass riffs to the next version, which will also have the poem! Thanks for reminding me about that, listened to the Cream version today, and your comment came to mind...later, D

[@Walkingshadow1]

Looking forward to it. A bass recorder might be a good thought also for the orchestration, maybe doubling the bass lines?

[@joeymac3969]

Thanks for this. I am just coming across this now. Love Cream's version. What a great job you did of this. Thank you, thank you. This is beautiful. Is this really written in 1667?

[@DanielPJMMAS]

No, and sorry if my title is confusing. Mike Taylor and Ginger Baker wrote the piece in 1967 and my 'arrangement' uses the instruments and style of 1667 England.

[@joeymac3969]

@@DanielPJMMAS I thought the melody had older, older influences. Green Bushes is clearly influencing Bruce's bass outré. Thanks again for a beautiful production, my friend.

[@Walkingshadow1]

Wow......tremendous. Thanks much! One suggestion: the bass lines at the end of the Cream version are downplayed, but I think that is a very intriguing part of the song. I would suggest giving more emphasis there.