Nazz - Take the Hand

[sportsmediaamerica]

Carson Van Osten was a good bassist, and Mooney a good drummer. This is a good showcase for them.

[gortleib]

Todd's was just a guide vocal, never meant to be a final take.

[gortleib]

This one's better than the one with Todd on lead vocals...

[ghodium]

this came up in my recommendations because i'd watched alice cooper who were called nazz for a while in their early days... never really listened to this group before but was pleasantly surprised

[cantcel]

lovely

[walkerbrothersmusic]

The version with Todd on lead vocal is so much better.

It can be found on the Nazz Nazz/ Nazz III Fungo Bat Sessions CD.

[sportsmediaamerica]

Amazing... these Nazz ballads totally hold up. They're the Todd songs that remain unknown to many listeners yet they are jewels as beautiful as all his later, more familiar stuff, and in some ways they might be even greater because they're the templates for his harmonic sound. And he was 20-22 when he wrote this stuff. Unreal. Personally, I find it more interesting to hear the versions of these songs that are sung by Todd. Just...because...

[fonzifan]

Nazz had a 18 minute instrumental called A Beautiful Song but I think this is the real beautiful song right here. Best Nazz song, it gives you happy feelings of being in a different time of pshycidelia on a sunny summers day.

[mindcontrolsalsa]

couldn't find this lp.

first time hearing it,

thanks alot for posting it

[SandozSaxonWilliams]

yes! and you put the version with the RIGHT Vocal on

thank you

[usagisama100]

なんでＮＡＺＺっていいのに評価されないだろう。毎日、このアル­バム車でながしてます。

[ottodahlberg]

This is TOO classic! Required listening for anyone under 40.

[crimsonrush]

This is my fave Nazz song. I never get bored with repetitive plays - although my family might! LOL!

[garty22]

There's a version of this on the Nazz III with Todd on vocals.. that's the version I always listen to so it sounds a bit odd to hear the original for a change.

I'm trying to learn to play this on guitar.. the chords are available online but they seem slightly innacurate and just plain wrong in some parts. Has anyone else attempted this? Any advice?

[fleetwoodmac1982]

@garty22

hi mate, if you want to analyse typical harmonies Todd used to use, you need to recognise a concept we call 'on chord'. in which, for example, to sound a harmony called 'G on C', guitar (or keyboard) player simply plays the chord of G whilst the bass player provides C sound. in this way, the whole band provides an 'on chord' harmony... if my explanation was uneasy to understand, please blame my poor english...

[namniekib]

The first chord in this song is Amaj7(add 9) but could be written as A/C#min7th where A is the bass note.Jazz music has a lot of chords like that such as A/Go(G diminished),A/F#maj,A/Gmaj7th.­What I love most about this song is the twists and turns into different key changes.Brilliant!

[namniekib]

This response was directed to Fleetwoodmac198.Thank you.

[probyngregory]

among Nazz's best.

[vampyros1]

@probyngregory I once listened to an interview where PG said TR influenced him more than BW. I like that.

[probyngregory]

indeed, I played this endlessly when i got home from school every day as a lad. I know the rest of Nazz were vaguely uneasy at the soft ballads eating away at their Brit rocker image, but this still stands up almost 40 years later.

[maida1982a]

sweet, sad Todd, sung expressively by Stewkey.

[eviejeevie]

i love this song :) and you