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    Takin It Easy weird timing?

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    22 minutes ago, LITTLEWING said:

    Another toon I needed to run through for this new band. Is it my ears getting old or does this timing do an extra skip as the drums come in? I’m counting the ‘one’ on the very first chord and where I expect the next eight to start as the drums come in it skips an extra beat or two. 

    I’ve played it over and over doing ONE 234 TWO 234 etc and the band comes in on EIGHT 23456.....

     

    Is it me??

     

    FWIW I can’t get Sex On Fire either unless the guitarist counts it. My head counts ONE as soon the first note starts. I can’t hear beat ONE as the second note. Bizarre I know. 

     

    Sex on Fire starts on the 4 of 1,2,3,4. I've been learning it on guitar for months and still struggle with the count.

    Vinyl? CDs? Streaming?

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    My CD player died a few months ago, so I haven't really been listening to music in the house, other than on the radio, or via the Echo. I have an MP3 player with most of my albums on it and listen to it when I'm out (I can connect it in the car with an aux cable too). I've ordered a Positive Spark Go, which doubles as a Bluetooth speaker, so I'll be able to play the MP3 player through it too.

    How old were you when you did your first gig?

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    16 or 17. I played bass and sang, but couldn't do both on some of the songs we covered eg "All Day and All of The Night". We also covered Peggy Sue and Sheena is a Punk Rocker. The next gig we did was a memorial concert for a guy in another band in the area, who has died in a car crash. By this point we were covering Joy Division's "Transmission" and "Isolation" (well, Therapy's cover of Isolation). That was the last gig I ever played and I loved every minute of both. 

    I have no idea what you're talking about...

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    15 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

     

    Agreed. Using words for their sound or rhythmic qualities, rather than their meaning, together with onomatopoeia and other devices are long-established literary traditions. Poets have been doing it for centuries. Pop music follows in the tradition and has done so for a long time. How about "Tutti Frutti. Aw Rooty. A Wop Bop A Loo Bop, A Wop Bam Boo" from the 1950s? And Little Richard was following in the footsteps of artists like Slim and Slam before him. Poetry, music and literature doesn't HAVE to mean something/anything. Sometimes, it's just pleasing to the eye or ear.

    The Black Angel's Death song by Velvet Underground is my favourite for this sort of lyric.

     

    Myriad had choice of his fate
    Set themselves out upon a plate for him to choose
    What had he to lose?
    Not a ghost bloodied country all covered with sleep
    Where the Black Angel did weep not an old city street in the east
    Gone to choose

    And wandering's brother walked on through the night
    With his hair in his face on a long splintered cut from the knife
    Of GT
    The rally man's patter ran on through the dawn
    Until we said so long to his skull
    Shrill yell
    Shining brightly red-rimmed and redlined with the time
    Infused with the choice of the mind on ice skates scraping chunks
    From the bells

    Cut mouth bleeding razors
    Forgetting the pain
    Antiseptic remains cool, good buy
    So you fly
    To the cosy brown snow of the east
    Gonna choose, choose again

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