Feb 202009
“Heart Full Of Soul” by The Yardbirds.
As always, remember that if you wear Raybans and sing about dark despair, the chicks will dig you, then click pause on the music player located in the side bar to your left before playing the YouTube.
My my, who is that youngster playing that neato sounding Telecaster?
uh… Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page… boy that sound brings back the angst of youth.
Spotty music recordings: is it valve or tube? Even though this is lip-psync, I say the valve works best in those stone-built, old, Cockney, ground floor apartment conversions that became London’s rock bars…. skiffle bands found better acoustic with valve power, because all that stone produced cave attenuation. So these bands developed the valve.
Meanwhile, in USA, nothing is made of stone. Plaster, wood and brick, so the tube worked out better acoustically for our home boys. Another insubstantial wild ass theory by yours truly.
You are correct Sir!
Sounds like you are doing some good work there. I have forwarded this to the International Federation of Musicology and Guitar Gizmo Analysis. I wonder if you have any thoughts on which system, tube/valve, is better for teen angst expression.
Hey thanks for the FWD//:FWD…to FoMGGA
In response to other area, I want to first introduce [my Tom Waites of Italy]: “Paolo Conte.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EKwHzVL77U
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44wqc2gbbfY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJ_ifT4y0Q
If you catch the drift of the tunes above… With all due respect, in terms of “post-modern Teen Angst and EMO” they should fit the libido of Conte, and my personal qualifier is the question: “Are they under the bridge or on the bridge?”
Under the bridge is going to be valve.
We remain beholdin’ to your ferocious search for tube\valve empiric basis… pdandf
Pat: Are you sure that’s a sync? I found other versions at YT that come from the record. In this version, right at 1:04 of the guitar solo, there’s a string pop noise that I don’t hear in the other versions. And you can actually see one of Jeff’s finger’s spring up as the result of a string bend letting go. With that said, the audio & vid here ARE still slightly out of sync.
Here’s another audio only version to compare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suhoBO3PuG8
In this version, at 1:11 he slides into a note that he never slides into in the “live” version. Also, the aforementioned string pop isn’t present, although there is a similar noise at a later point in the same phrase.
Possible that they were synching to a different pre-recorded track, or maybe doing a hybrid live/sync thing. There’s evidence of possible bleed-over with the vocal stuff. I think Jeff’s solo is live in the first vid. The left hand vibrato is tough to see, because the video quality is pretty grainy, plus, vibrato style in those earlier tunes was more shallow and rapid.
That’s my 2 cent CSI finding.
OOPS!! Good Catch Mr Stratoblogster, I was using “visual” clues rather than “audio” clues to judge… yes the two musical versions are miles apart — once I hear them. Don’t ya love this youTube stuff? The ear is more accurate than the eye?
I was going on sunshades used back when to keep the singers’ eyes from giving it away… and I did not see leads in the guitars the first time through, [the leads are clearly there in my second viewing] and then I couldn’t see the vibrato either… so I jumped to a conclusion.
The recording is very different as you said. I don’t know if they had hybrid\sync in 1969. And I saw no wiggle in left hands either… is it one of those B-benders? Now I’m wondering when did lip sync get started anyway?
WKIPD says in 1926 Max Fleischer tried it first in animation. In movies it is a cost cutting practice… Soul Train, MTV of course, and Dick Clark, and had Bentknee Spears fiasco’s ..still imprinted in my head still… I feel like a dweeb now.
How ’bout all those Elvis movies and beach flicks with Frankie & Annette! They’d have these surf bands with all brand new Fender gear, no cords and no front panel lamps on the amps.
“Hey Boobaaay, you wanna play pool or naaaahhht?!”
As Eric Von Zipper gives himself the finger again…
You know, I thought that Tom Petty got all of his act from Dylan or McGuinn, but I now see that he’s clearly aping Keith Relf of the Yardbirds.