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| From | "bob" <segarini@rogers.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bum notes |
| Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 11:47:07 -0400 |
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"A Masterpiece Is Known By It's Flaws"
It's the performance that counts, not perfection.
There are mistakes on almost all recordings, (Mick Taylor's solo album
after he left The Stones may be the only, and forgotten, exception), and if
you listen carefully to your favourites, you'll hear the imperfections.
From the coke machine down the hall on Elvis's early Sun recordings, to
the uber-flat, "Ahhh...look at all the lonely people" in Macca's doubled
part in the last chorus of Eleanor Rigby, it's just the charm of live to
tape recording that is all too easily repaired in this, the computer age.
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Bum notes
> AT Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:12:56 Miguel wrote:
>
>>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?...
>
> Funny you should mention this. I just got my hands on a freshly
remastered
> version of "Sgt. Pepper" (don't ask, I'm not copying it for anyone....if
you
> want to discuss it and offer me bribes off-list I'm all ears :-) and
noticed
> that there's a snare drum flub in "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite".
Have
> heard the album a million times and NEVER noticed this before.
>
> My favourite is always the lead-in vocal to "I Saw Her Again Last Night"
by
> the Mamas & Papas where the "ladies" jump in half-a-bar too early (I
think
> it's the second or third chorus).
>
> Also, Anne Wilson's vocal on Heart's "All I Wanna Do" where producer Ron
> Nevison left all the popping "P's" in her emotive pleas to "Please!
Please!
> Please!" in the final pre-chorus passage. [how's that for alliteration?]
>
> And an oddball one more familiar to Canadians...though, I'm sure this
song
> made its rounds in the US too was Crowbar's "Oh! What A Feeling" where
one
> of the band members is hearding yelling "f*ck!" right after flubbing a
line
> in the guitar solo -- both the flub and the exclamation were left in
because
> it was the final take of the session and the label had run out of money
to
> do anymore overdubs. The song was due at radio immediately. With some
clever
> mixing to try and bury the line, Daffodil Records were still able to get
the
> song aired on radio as is....it's this version of the song still getting
> airplay today. Pretty risque for 1971.
>
>
> Jaimie Vernon,
> President, Bullseye Records
> "Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
> http://www.bullseyecanada.com
> Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
> http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
>
>
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