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Post by dreadnought28 on Jul 12, 2021 21:02:43 GMT
The female voice on Simon & Garfunkel’s Fakin’ it belonged to Beverly Martyn.
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Post by vikingblues on Jul 13, 2021 8:39:20 GMT
Fairly geeky perhaps ..... A 639-year performance based on avant-garde composer John Cage's "As Slow as Possible" started in September 2001 and is still running at St. Buchard Church in Germany. The performance by an automated organ progresses so slowly that visitors have to wait months for a chord change, and is scheduled to conclude in 2640. I think I'll opt to listen to his 4'33" of silence instead. Mark
... and sadly ... For every US$1,000 of music sold, the average musician makes about US$23.40.
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Post by mandovark on Jul 13, 2021 12:42:30 GMT
I guess a few people on here will know this one, but:
Sandy Denny was the only guest vocalist to appear on a Led Zeppelin studio album.
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Post by PistolPete on Jul 13, 2021 17:09:04 GMT
The sax solo on Baker Street was performed by Bob Hoskins, who was in Ghostbusters. Oh you wag, you... 😆
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Post by PistolPete on Jul 13, 2021 17:15:52 GMT
I was going to write something banal like "There are 7 notes in an octave" in what I hoped would be accepted as a jovial manner but I thought I'd just check before I posted and now I understand music even less than I did half an hour ago. For example: andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/how-many-notes-in-an-octave/So I'm going to stick to songs with 3 chords and occasional rhymes. You lot carry on You could have just gone with "there are 7 notes in a major scale" and avoided controversy!
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Post by leoroberts on Jul 13, 2021 17:19:00 GMT
I was going to write something banal like "There are 7 notes in an octave" in what I hoped would be accepted as a jovial manner but I thought I'd just check before I posted and now I understand music even less than I did half an hour ago. For example: andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/how-many-notes-in-an-octave/So I'm going to stick to songs with 3 chords and occasional rhymes. You lot carry on You could have just gone with "there are 7 notes in a major scale" and avoided controversy! Enough with the jargon already! ‘Major’, ‘scale’. Sheesh!
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Post by andyhowell on Jul 14, 2021 7:48:19 GMT
You could have just gone with "there are 7 notes in a major scale" and avoided controversy! Enough with the jargon already! ‘Major’, ‘scale’. Sheesh! Lovely.
I've got a friend who I've been trying to get to unerstand how minor scales work. He jsut can't seem to get the hang of it. Mind you, it might be because I've suggested he memorises the Circle of Fiths. I bought him a circle mug one Christmas and he declares that it terrifies him :-)
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 14, 2021 18:01:20 GMT
Macca didn't actually sing or say, "Quite rightly," on Mellow Yellow, despite legend. There's some doubt whether he spoke or giggled either, but he probably did clap.
Americans on early Beatles forums would argue fiercely that John Lennon did not repeat the phrase "Sugar plum fairy" in lieu of counting in on A Day In The Life. This means they were either deaf, thick, couldn't interpret English accents or all three. By the time Anthology came out it was too late to prove them wrong. F*****s would probably still contend that Lennon says something other than "To your mother" at the beginning of It's All Too Much. T****s.
Duke Ellington's piano teacher was named Mrs Clinkscales.
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Post by Akquarius on Jul 15, 2021 17:50:28 GMT
G.A.S. or Gear/Guitar Acquisition Syndrome is an acronym that was created by Steely Dan's guitarist Walter Becker. He used it for the first time in the U.S. Guitar Player magazine in 1994.
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Post by leoroberts on Jul 16, 2021 16:58:28 GMT
In 1972 The New Seekers tried to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. They finally conceded defeat in 1974 when they accepted that Holland was always going to be flat.
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Post by earthbalm on Jul 16, 2021 17:41:24 GMT
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 16, 2021 22:49:55 GMT
An odd thing I noticed, which I have yet to see any reference to in Beatle literature. John Lennon gave Ono full credit for the concept of Imagine, yet he seems to have been toying with it's phraseology and rhythm at least as early as 1965, when his book A Spaniard In The Works came out. A poem called The Fat Budgie sports the verse:
It would be funny wouldn't it A budgie on a stick Imagine all the people Laughing till they're sick
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 17, 2021 11:47:15 GMT
While we're on iffy crediting, it's surprising how many people credit the guitar riff that constitutes the only real hook of Layla to Clapton, when it was Duane Allman's creation.
On the other hand, Duane is often credited with the work of Dicky Betts. An NME journalist once assumed he wrote and played on Jessica, which was written after his death.
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Post by andyhowell on Jul 22, 2021 13:57:36 GMT
While we're on iffy crediting, it's surprising how many people credit the guitar riff that constitutes the only real hook of Layla to Clapton, when it was Duane Allman's creation. On the other hand, Duane is often credited with the work of Dicky Betts. An NME journalist once assumed he wrote and played on Jessica, which was written after his death. Everytime sombody mentions Clapton and Layla in hte same sentence I have a horrible flashback to that lounge lizard version he did unplugged!
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Post by Gregg Hermetech on Jul 22, 2021 15:57:48 GMT
Everytime sombody mentions Clapton and Layla in hte same sentence I have a horrible... feeling they are about to mention the Fender Champ...
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