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Post by The Ocean on Mar 30, 2022 14:47:47 GMT
Just opened YouTube and this was the first thing that came up!
I watched one of his videos the other night incidentally where he mentioned that Andy Partridge was partially inspired by DFTR when he started writing the riff for The Mayor of Simpleton
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Post by bloyster on Mar 30, 2022 16:35:01 GMT
Wow! Thanks for finding this. I love the part where Beato describes the little lead guitar parts during the “la la la la la” part as mournful sounding. I never thought of it that way but he’s right. This is a great song where the mood of the guitar brilliantly fits the mood of the lyrics.
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Post by frog on Mar 30, 2022 17:17:07 GMT
he's a fan ! I love it ! (and I officially petition for the release of the Unfaded AoF's DFTR. it must exist on a tape, somewhere...)
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Post by Buck on Mar 30, 2022 17:27:49 GMT
I was just about to run and tell that. : )
I've been waiting for Rick to finish editing our interview, I did it some weeks ago. Rick is a cool guy, and just about the best Music/guitar TV out there. Fun fact, he attended, then later taught at Ithaca College and was in a band with Ron Riddle, BOC and Red and The Black alum, when he was there. He wasn't there when my family was, but before and after. He lives in Atlanta now. The questions covered a lot of the same ground I've done in other interviews, and I regret I forgot to mention Danny Kalb of the Blues Project as one of my influences. I'm glad he asked me to play along though.
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Post by johnnystorm on Mar 30, 2022 17:39:18 GMT
Ricks "what makes this song great" videos are always very enjoyable. In this case, I thought Rick went on a bit too much about SNL. I mean that song was great before that. He also *somehow* forgot to mention that Buck is one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time!
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Post by Buck on Mar 30, 2022 17:50:49 GMT
For better or worse, the Cowbell is now wedded to the the lore of "Don't Fear The Reaper." I'm just grateful the song still is used in spooky contexts and cover versions.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 30, 2022 17:53:28 GMT
I was just about to run and tell that. : ) I've been waiting for Rick to finish editing our interview, I did it some weeks ago. Rick is a cool guy, and just about the best Music/guitar TV out there. Fun fact, he attended, then later taught at Ithaca College and was in a band with Ron Riddle, BOC and Red and The Black alum, when he was there. He wasn't there when my family was, but before and after. He lives in Atlanta now. The questions covered a lot of the same ground I've done in other interviews, and I regret I forgot to mention Danny Kalb of the Blues Project as one of my influences. I'm glad he asked me to play along though. I had a question that I was expecting that Rick would mention when he isolated the tracks but he didn't touch on it, which is: what was the inspiration for the infinate sustain at the solo's end?
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Post by Buck on Mar 30, 2022 18:02:29 GMT
The idea to carry over that note was Sandy Pearlman's I recall. I did sustain it, but he wanted it to carry well into the re-introducition, up to the vocal. We copied the the guitar track last note on to another piece of tape, looped it and played it on another machine and brought that up on a separate fader on the mixing desk at the right moment.
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Post by edog40 on Mar 30, 2022 20:16:52 GMT
For better or worse, the Cowbell is now wedded to the the lore of "Don't Fear The Reaper." I'm just grateful the song still is used in spooky contexts and cover versions. funny how you bring up the “spooky” context, especially when the song specifically says “don’t fear”.
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Post by CAPTAIN on Mar 30, 2022 21:59:11 GMT
AMAZING !!!
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 30, 2022 22:19:36 GMT
The idea to carry over that note was Sandy Pearlman's I recall. I did sustain it, but he wanted it to carry well into the re-introducition, up to the vocal. We copied the the guitar track last note on to another piece of tape, looped it and played it on another machine and brought that up on a separate fader on the mixing desk at the right moment. That final little wail right before last verse begins is a killer bit of timing. Taking that away kind of makes it feel more four on the floor and driving towards the end. I'm used to songs adding something to create drive, this does it by taking an element away. It's a nice trick.
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Post by soonerbillz on Mar 31, 2022 1:44:43 GMT
Great interview and detail oriented breakdown of the guitar parts. It really gives me chills to hear this song even after so many years. It was so perfectly arranged.. more than music,it's like a living moving thing.
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Post by marty on Mar 31, 2022 1:47:22 GMT
Too bad few people get the lyrics right….it’s “THERE”, not “THEY’RE gone”…THEY aren’t gone until the end of the song.
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Post by eastmark on Mar 31, 2022 10:20:24 GMT
Love Ricks take in describing the guitar part he had isolated as “mournful”. Spot on IMO.
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Post by pacnw on Mar 31, 2022 16:41:04 GMT
They didn't talk about the guiro scrape.
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