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| From | "Perry R. Stearns" <pstearns3@wi.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bum Notes |
| Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 11:03:12 -0500 |
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Everytime I listen to "Laugh Laugh" by the Beau Brummels I immediately
cringe waiting for that blown harmonica note in the solo. I still cannot
believe they left it that way. John and Paul singing different words in one
or two of their songs still baffles me a bit too.
Perry
np: The Shmenges - Cabbage Rolls & Coffee
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:12:56 -0400
> From: "Miguel Motta" <motta_m@firn.edu>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Bum notes
> Message-ID: <000801c55d3d$a4024e90$6fa5c90a@2901145>
>
> 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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