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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bum notes |
| Date | Mon, 23 May 2005 05:05:07 -0500 |
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> Sometimes what is perceived to be a flub (whether obvious to most ears
> or not) has been left in deliberately. Case in point -- the guitar
> solo in Diesel's "Sausolito Summernights" (WTF?)....the one in The
> Odds' "Heterosexual Man"....and the one in TPOH's "I'm An Adult Now".
> Deliberate? Incompetent? Or ingenius?
"Sausolito" always sounded to me like Joe Walsh cutting a record with
Steve Miller. Not a real serious song by any means, the wacky punched-in
solo reflects that, but it does work. I'm glad it was chopped out for
the single.
Extended guitar solos like "My Sharona" (which I thought was great) are
termed now as "wanking off" by the nu-metal/grunge generation or done as
parody like the silly talkbox solo on Weezer's "Beverly Hills".
> My point being is that Melcher may not have let that bum note on the
> Byrds song get by him at all and may very well have embraced it as
> part of the vibe of the song or for a myriad of other reasons no one
> will ever know.
Might be, or since it was just an quickly done LP track he didnt feel it
was necessary to re-cut it. Proably one of those first album senarios
where the band has to cut the damn LP quickly to get it on the shelves
just as the single's taking off.
I have always felt some studios didnt have good monitoring and mixdown
speakers back in the 50's 60's - looking at old photographs some studios
had huge elaborate "Voice Of The Theatre" style monitors, others had
something close to 15 watt PA speakers hanging on the walls.
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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