Re: (TV) End-of-year Review / Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

[Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca>]

Yes, that was fun hearing the reversed clip from "Days," & then playing The
 Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man intro. against it to compare. We don't need to t
ake Lloyd's word for it. Hearing (in reverse) is believing that "Days' deri
ves from it! Thanks for the reversed clip Joe.
Btw, that quiz question re. a Byrds B-side Tom especially likes has at leas
t one alternate answer. In one of the 1970s or 1980s interviews I collected
 (I'd need to search for it to nail down the source & date) Tom talks about
 liking the Byrds a lot, & notes The Byrds had some really great B-sides, n
aming one especially. But in that particular interview it isn't "She Don't 
Care About Time" he names as a fave B-side, but "Everybody's Been Burned," 
a David Crosby song, instead. I always thought some of the angst-y themes i
n Television's lyrics sounded reminiscent of those found in "Everybody's be
en Burned."  I like that Byrds album that compiled singles, including 
B-sides. I agree Gene Clark wrote some excellent Byrds song. I'm reminded t
he 1980s L.A. Paisley Underground band, Rain Parade, has a lot of Byrds inf
luence in their sound, to these ears.
Sadly, Dum Dum Girls is the only band that newly provoked a "wow" from me i
n 2014. It's become harder for to find music that unequivocally "zings" me 
anymore, so I'm grateful when I occasionally find some. I'd been somewhat f
amiliar with Dum Dum Girls a few years but didn't get real familiar with th
eir catalog & didn't see them live till last year. Dum Dums' Dee Dee has a 
rare talent, imo, for consistently writing & delivering emotive, compelling
 vocal melodies,  a major reason I also like Mazzy Star (though the tw
o band's styles are different, DDGs being more pop-y). Btw, I have to thank
 Scott Simpson for kindly sharing audio files taken from his 5 Mazzy Star m
aster tapes of 1990s gigs he recorded which I shared further via DIME & via
 fan sites. Scott made some memorable recordings. There were other ban
ds I found listenable enough in 2014, but I'll just cite my one new "wow"!-
Bob 
      From: Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>
 To: tv@obbard.com 
 Sent: Saturday, January 3, 2015 11:04 AM
 Subject: Re: (TV) End-of-year Review / Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
   
On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 09:24:43 -0800
Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neat to hear "Days" reversed and Richard's rather amazing internal
> backwards masking abilities confirmed.

I've been playing Mr Tamb Man for years, but if you asked me to play the ri
ff
backwards, I'd never be able to just pull it off - I'd need a few days of
 
working it out.  But then again, I'm not RL either!

> "She Don't Care About Time" is one of my absolute favorite Byrds tracks.
> It's odd that it's just a b-side. 

IMO, all the great Byrds songs are either covers or Gene Clark songs. 
 "Here
Without You" is another one of my faves.

> The mastering on that cassette was super dodgy so that at times Crosby's
> rhythm guitar sounded way more overdriven than it should have.  "Why
?"
> sounded vaguely like a Husker Du song with harmonies and an extended sita
r
> break.  I kinda dug it and even missed the grit when the remasters c
ame out!

Probably less the mastering than the cassette reproduction.  Some of t
hat
stuff was just awful, but there's also something to be said for the grit
that tape compression brings.



-- 
      Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@brainiac.co
m
 Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
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