Re: (TV) Counterbalance: "Marquee Moon"

[Keith Allison <keith@thewonder.co.uk>]

On 20/03/2011 00:24, Leo Casey wrote:
> To be slightly more precise:  T.V.  once said in an interview that the intro
> guitar part (and which repeats thereafter) of the song 'Marquee Moon' is the
> horn part of the James Brown song 'I Feel Good'

even more precisely ;-) :

From International Musician and Recording World, September 1980:

"Interestingly, Verlaine reveals some unexpected roots for other guitar 
bits on the album. While the stuttering riffs on 'Marquee Moon' may seem 
wholly original, Tom claims it was reggae rhythms inverted with a guitar 
version of the horn part of James Brown's 'I Feel Good' layered on top."

http://www.thewonder.co.uk/imr.htm

> I thought the ideas and writing in "Counterbalance: Marquee Moon" were ludicrous.
>
> I esp. thought the metric that an album has to be commercially sucessful before it can
> be considered great a real howler.
Agree with you there, Leo.

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