Johnny Rotten might get de-spotified too, if Mr. Young has his way.
Right.
Anyway, I’m a whore for the pretty songs. Sing for me, cowboy!
Magical Mystery Chord
Harmonics doesn’t get more fun than this chord. I think someone’s posted an analysis here before, but I’d forgotten the details. Randy Bachman got to listen to the individual tracks at Abbey Road; here he is breaking it down. Truly a band firing on all cylinders during this time, the height of their early period.
Well-Wishery
Join me, won’t you, with the musical community in wishing Makerbot – by many estimates the world’s oldest living blogger – a happy 68th!
Friends of the Blog Jethro Tull dropped a new album in his honor.
The Ergs offered their inimitable dorkrock cover of Odessey & Oracle.
And Leo Sayer released these unwatchable Beatles covers!
Enjoy, Macré Beau!
Universal Caption
In 2006, a blogger argued that the above caption worked for every New Yorker cartoon. As I am not as highbrow as you lot, I wouldn’t necessarily know.
More recently, the following universal caption has been suggested:
I’ll leave it to all y’all to decide if they both work for every cartoon.
Has anyone entered this week’s caption contest?
This One Still Makes Me Laugh
One of my daily stops is to The Far Side. Some have aged better than others, some were too weird or obtuse to begin with, and a few are just perfect.
Suckers Wanted
Julian Lennon will auction NFT’s of some of his prized memorabilia: John’s black cape from Help, a Les Paul ( I guess Yoko owns the Epiphone Casino), Paul’s handwritten notes for “Hey Jude,” and some other treasures. He’s keeping the originals. In Julian’s words,
I actually felt very bad about keeping all that stuff locked away, and I just felt that this was a unique way to continue dad’s legacy and show people the collections I have…
Aw, how nice. John’s legacy needs so much help these days. And I’m sorry he feels bad, but the money should help that.
You can’t have your cake and eat it, but with NFT’s you can have it and sell it!
There’s a sucker born every minute. –PT Barnum
Never give a sucker an even break. –WC Fields
Righteous Gemstones
Any of you bastards watching this? I’m through most of S1, and much of it is hilarious. Bogs down a little in a couple of middle episodes involving flashbacks and a ho-hum subplot, but it picks up again and looks like it’s heading for a strong finish. I’m hearing S2 is good.
I Got A Rocket In My Pocket…
…and the fuse is lit. The Q cutting up as only they could.
Pedal Pusher
I think my meager collection includes a RAT, a chorus, and a wah-wah, and I have no idea where they are. It’s about all I deserve. This guy, though:
“The merits of a geezer with my inconsiderable musical skills owning even one Big Muff are debatable; more than one is indefensible. See, I have a problem. I quit drinking 35 years ago and began spending beer money on guitars and related toys, like amps and speakers and, worst of all, effects.
My guitarsenal now takes up so much space in my house that I “joke” that at this point I would have been better off had I just kept drinking. Pedal addiction is particularly evil because so-called stomp boxes take up so much less space than instruments or amps or speakers, and also because there’s so damn many different ones out there! I realized long ago that I have too many pedals, and also that I’ll never own enough. Now I’ve got suitcases and drawers and cardboard boxes full of them. I’ve also got a rack effects problem, a close cousin of pedal addiction. I spent last weekend in the basement wiring up a ridiculous arsenal of decades-old tube overdrives and multi-effect units in one big shelf. Push a few buttons, and this assemblage of rock electronics can turn “Kumbaya” into “Eruption.”
Effects aren’t for everybody. The Beatles, it should be noted, weren’t pedal pushers. Gearheads took to message boards to marvel about how in the new documentary about the band, Get Back, pedals get next to no play. Eagle-eyed nerds claim to have spotted a Fuzz Face, a box also stomped on in that era by Jimi Hendrix. But little else in the way of tone-enhancing implements could be spotted. (I haven’t watched much of Get Back yet, but of the scenes I’ve seen so far, nothing hit me harder than seeing John Lennon playing through an Ampeg B15 amplifier. I have two Ampeg B15s.) Then again, there weren’t that many pedals being sold in their day, and as the new doc shows these guys had sound technicians in lab coats walking around Abbey Road Studios, inventing sounds for them on request.
It has been reported, but not confirmed, that there are bassists and keyboardians amongst us. Do you people use effects pedals? Do you need a Rick Nielsen secret storage location to manage them?
Yep
One of the measures of a great song is relatability. This one’s got it in spades.