I was an early subscriber and reader/occasional contributor to the original blog. The Word podcasts, along withe the Adam and Joe podcasts, pretty much kept me alive in the 2008-10 period. I do still listen to […]

I was sitting right near the front and could both see and hear the notes/chords the band was playing and then what Dylan was doing. E.g The song would be in A and Dylan would dive in with his Chuck riffs on the […]

I’m going to add the lazy sub-Chuck solos that Dylan added to every single song when I saw him live in the late 90s. He would come in a semitone sharp or flat every time and the band leader would have to hastily […]

Or frantic, spiky and unhinged, adding a rip of velcro right at the song’s climax…

I’ve got your back on this one, Twang. I have no idea why this was latched onto by the public as some sort of proof of Prince’s innate guitar genius. This sounds like every guitar shop of my childhood on a […]

I’m with you. It’s certainly no worse than the original, and in fact it is far better from a technique perspective. I must admit I’d never heard it before, but the original sounds slavishly in awe of Court-era […]

Great episodes again. On a podcast I heard years ago (maybe This American Life) there was an interview with the husband and wife comedy (their words, not mine!) duo who were on that night. Sounds like Ed […]

The surprise here is how low the Who were compared to Joan Baez etc. It’s a reminder that their commercial heyday in the States was a year or two ahead.

Both wrong. Elvis the Pelvis had a twin brother called Enis but they wouldn’t let him sing.

Thank you, thank you…

A few others:
What’s Going On – The original Detroit Mix is included as a bonus album with the deluxe WGO CD. It has a rawer, slightly more desperate feel than the final mix.

Layla – 20th Anniversary remix I […]

I think the more observant amongst us would have noticed the term ‘Album’ in the thread title, implying situations where the entire album has been remixed rather than dance-oriented track remixes.

God, I’m […]

I must admit that most of the time I barely notice the difference. I love the Sgt Pepper, White Album and Abbey Road remixes. And Let it Be Naked is my favourite version of that album, as is the naked Double […]

Zep’s Houses of the Holy is another obvious example, although because Physical Graffiti is an album of offcuts, the song was probably recorded for the previous album. If that makes sense.

Per square meter? You poor bastards!

We quickly set up extreme restriction and quarantining of arrivals to Australia. If you look at our COVID stats, almost all our active cases are international arrivals. Each of those could have triggered a […]

Things are pretty good here in Brisbane. A single community transmission case is frontline news across Australia and god knows when our last fatality was. Almost all the active cases here are returned overseas […]

Great stuff!

I believe that a good percentage of the population would recognise those 7 notes as Beat It. Both my teenage kids did immediately, as did my 80 year-old mother.

Michael Jackson has form on this. Thriller is in […]

I have a few 90s unplugged albums, but for me they are synonymous with awful plinky 90s piezoelectric acoustic guitar sounds. The concept worked when bands altered their arrangements to suit the instruments rather […]

I just learned yesterday that the iconic seven notes that start Beat It were lifted, with no attribution, from a Synclavier demo disc. They are played a semitone down but it is otherwise identical.