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| From | Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bum notes |
| Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 08:26:21 -0500 |
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I know a Stones one...the tambourine part on "Time Is On My Side". Whoever's
playing it is dropping the beat all over the song!
--Ken
On 5/20/05 8:23 AM, "mkropp@comcast.net" <mkropp@comcast.net> wrote:
> There's one that's always puzzled me in "Let It Be". In the verse after the
> guitar solo, just after Paul sings "I wake up to the sound of music" he plays
> the wrong chord and quickly fixes it. I always wondered why they never
> corrected that.
>
> There are others but I can't think of specifics off the top of my head. I
> know there's a Stones one but can't think of it just now.
>
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>
>> This could end up being the silliest of all threads I've proposed... but here
>> goes anyway... This is especially for musicians and music lovers with "golden
>> ears"...
>>
>> ...Ever picked up on a bum note (or slip in the performance) on a recording
>> and
>> everytime you hear that record you wait for the moment that the mistake
>> happens?...
>>
>> ...Case in point for me... At the very end of The Monkees' "Daydream
>> Believer"
>> Chip Douglass (bass player on that record) hits one bum note... It occurs
>> when
>> Davy sings the phrase "Cheer up sleepy Jean...." but he recovers nicely... I
>> guess one bum note didn't merit re-recording the phrase for later edit... I
>> remember driving my friends crazy as I pulled the record player needle back
>> time
>> and time again to that part and ask them..."Did you hear that?... There it
>> is!
>> The bum note!"... They'd stare at me as if I were crazy...
>>
>> Another related one is the guitar solo in BTO's "Taking Care of Business" ...
>> to
>> my ears, to the day of the recording, Bachman should've taken the time to
>> tune
>> his guitar better as the solo sounds a bit out-of-tune... small qualm... but
>> can't avoid hearing that to this day... LOL... I remember a musician once was
>> quoted as saying... "I like to leave my mistakes on the recordings 'cuz
>> they're
>> like scars on fine leather"...
>>
>> Finally one interesting one is Peter Noone's vocal flub on "Leaning on a
>> Lampost"... Listen closely and you'll hear him improvise some gibberish at a
>> certain point of the song... I'm amazed he didn't burst out into laughter and
>> cause an outtake...
>>
>> Like I said... silly but perhaps interesting to some...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Miguel
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