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[quote name='Northy' timestamp='1499349154' post='3330918'] ... "I think either of them would do!!" ... [/quote] Although I personally prefer the G natural, I think your guitarist is correct either will do. You can even get away with bass/guitar/harmonica not all doing the same - it's slurred, it's passing.

Here's a guitar/vocal sheet music (with tab) that has G# in the guitar part ... [url="http://www.onlinesheetmusic.com/the-jean-genie-p396281.aspx"]http://www.onlinesheetmusic.com/the-jean-genie-p396281.aspx[/url]

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1499337742' post='3330806'] ... the 'feel' of it. The Bolder version is, well, 'bolder': a bit less 'poppy', a bit more edgy with ominous undertones ... [/quote] Yes, the blues scale flat third G natural is, well, bluesier, sleazier, dirtier, bent a bit 'off-key', it's the blues and not the neat tidy unflattened third of the G major scale. And isn't the second G natural played under an A chord making it flat seventh not flat third, in that case?

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1499338217' post='3330808'] has anybody found an internet tab that shows the correct way of playing the main riff? I haven't [/quote] Here's piano sheet music with left hand showing G natural .... not that it is any guarantee of anything ... although personally I would trust notation more than any internet tab: [url="http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0065616"]http://www.musicnote...p?ppn=MN0065616[/url]

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1499289977' post='3330610'] This is me playing G# all the time and definitely no-one noticed [/quote] Very good. Try playing G and see if anyone notices!

As I hear it on the original version, Bowie's harmonica playing is a little ragged and his semitone down bend G# to G is not always wholly accurate ... but hey, it's rock 'n' roll ... and the blues scale G natural is only a passing note anyway ... and little variations are fine like EEEEAG ...and if someone played G# occasionally most people ain't going to notice.

The Jean Genie and the G is natural not sharp.

Q1: Why can't a singer sing a song in a particular key? A: Because the song in that key doesn't suit the range of the singer's voice - and while the range of a singer's voice can be extended with practice, it is also limited by physiology. Q2: Why can't a guitarist play in, for example, the key of Eb? A: Because guitarist hasn't bothered to learn all the chords and their inversions.

[url="http://www.sfxsound.com/microthumpinator/"]http://www.sfxsound.com/microthumpinator/[/url]

Sold Liam some used strings, neat and tidy business.

I think BigRedX has a couple of those basses by GUS.

My sister's granddaughter (age 8), i.e. my great-niece, does everything left-handed and/or left-footed. On my advice they got her a left-handed guitar ... ... which she insists on playing right-handed.

[quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1498514872' post='3325232'] Is that Omar Hakim on drums in that Chic - Jerry Barnes clip ? [/quote] I think so.

Congratulations.

[quote name='PawelG' timestamp='1498509652' post='3325166'] He does know about the funk. [/quote] ... and he's from North Carolina.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_VIub6YZ-0

What stood out for me was the perfection of Rogers' rhythm playing. As for the bass, I thought that was also pretty much nailed. Indeed, the whole thing kept tight and quite straightforward was fantastic. But Rogers' guitar holds it all together.

Mine came within a few days but, as above, they had just finished a batch and I was lucky.

... and Runswick goes disco ... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zGB3c25xRA[/media]

Daryl Runswick on bass - with a stool ... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lJOkXETO70[/media]