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KNIVES IN MUSIC ?...

J.T. has had a great run with his discussion of "KNIVES IN CINEMA AND TELEVISION"...
How about Knives in music ?...
We all know "Mack the Knife" and "Cuts like a Knife", how about any others that have knives in the song?
The more obscure the better...

Armstrong did my favorite rendition.

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Permalink Reply by kage on January 14, 2010 at 5:11

London Elektricity - Song in the key of Knife.... http://www.iknifecollector.com/video/london-elektricity-song-in

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Permalink Reply by kage on January 14, 2010 at 5:33

Oh yeah, just for JJ..... http://www.iknifecollector.com/video/louis-armstrong-mack-the

obtw here's the song as sung by Lotte Lenya herself (the one mentioned in the song, that Armstrong had inserted into it) in German. She was married to the composer of the song (Kurt Weill) and among other things is best known as Col. Rosa Klebb in the James Bond film From Russia with Love.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9GcykPIY&feature=related

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Permalink Reply by Trent Rock on January 14, 2010 at 11:56

No love for Brian Adams!!!??
CUTS LIKE A KNIFE!!!!!

Judas Priest (scott's favorite band!! ;) )
The Ripper

You'll soon shake with fear
Never knowing if I'm near
I'm sly and I'm shameless
Nocturnal and nameless
Except for "the ripper"
Or if you like "jack the knife"

Technically a slide can be made with any material, so long as it resonates, and the craftsmanship is good. Examples include stag antler and buffalo horn, although slides like these are not often sold in mainstream shops, if at all, as the time and effort needed to create one is often too much when conventional slides are available. An alternative method is to use a solid metal bar or rod, also about the same size as above, laid across the strings of the guitar and held by the fingers of the fretting hand being laid on it to either side, parallel to it. Shotglasses, pipes, and stones have also been used to good effect, as have rings, spoons and even cigarette lighters. One can also use a knife instead of a bar:
"As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularised by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable." ―W. C. Handy on his first hearing slide guitar, a blues player in the Tutwiler, Mississippi train station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41AtRfQGOWI

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Permalink Reply by kage on January 14, 2010 at 14:34

Okay, one for Trent.... http://www.iknifecollector.com/video/bryan-adams-cuts-like-a-knife

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on March 5, 2010 at 0:41

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on May 27, 2010 at 11:13

Here's one for Memorial Day...

Randall Knife

Artist: Clark Guy
Album: Dublin Blues

My father had a Randall knife
My mother gave it to him
When he went off to WWII
To save us all from ruin
If you've ever held a Randall knife
Then you know my father well
If a better blade was ever made
It was probably forged in hell

My father was a good man
A lawyer by his trade
And only once did I ever see
Him misuse the blade
It almost cut his thumb off
When he took it for a tool
The knife was made for darker things
And you could not bend the rules

He let me take it camping once
On a Boy Scout jamboree
And I broke a half an inch off
Trying to stick it in a tree
I hid it from him for a while
But the knife and he were one
He put it in his bottom drawer
Without a hard word one

There it slept and there it stayed
For twenty some odd years
Sort of like Excalibur
Except waiting for a tear

My father died when I was forty
And I couldn't find a way to cry
Not because I didn't love him
Not because he didn't try
I'd cried for every lesser thing
Whiskey, pain and beauty
But he deserved a better tear
And I was not quite ready

So we took his ashed out to sea
And poured `em off the stern
And threw the roses in the wake
Of everything we'd learned
When we got back to the house
They asked me what I wanted
Not the lawbooks not the watch
I need the things he's haunted

My hand burned for the Randall knife
There in the bottom drawer
And I found a tear for my father's life
And all that it stood for