Re: (TV) Marquee Moon study group seeking help with Marquee Moon solo.

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message 
<b2aa5d100705181852j7f1adaedp933a9080c7272811@mail.gmail.com>, Russ 
<russvr@gmail.com> writes
> thus 'Days" was born. I wish I could cite the exact source on that 
> one.

From Q&A on Richard's site:

Q: I heard somewhere that the song "Days' was written by playing "Mr 
Tambourine Man' backwards, is this true? Was it a painful process to 
transcribe the notes by playing it on a reel-to-reel backwards?

A: Yes, this is true. "Days" was built around a riff I had been fooling 
with at rehearsal based on the Byrds version of "Mr. Tambourine Man", 
when Tom walked in. What he said to me was "Hey, can you play that 
backwards?" So I spent about a minute and I turned the riff around and 
voila. There was no transcription, there was no reel-to-reel, and it was 
most definitely not painful. Unfortunately, Tom found it difficult to 
play his part and sing at the same time, so we only played it at half 
dozen times live, but it was a lovely thing when we did.

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"The captivating main riff in the song has a strange origin. "I had read 
that Wagner would write something and then write it out backwards. He'd 
have violins play the main theme backwards. I thought that was 
interesting. And I always liked The Byrds so I asked Lloyd if he could 
play 'Mr. Tambourine Man' backwards. We took that and changed it a 
little bit and that became 'Days'."

-  International Musician and Recording World, September 1980


Keith

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