joelfriedman <joel_friedman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Thanks all for the great replies. Just to be a completist, I reread
> Ian MacDonald's book and he says that I'm Looking Through You (very
> possible) and Norwegian Wood (really??) either use capos or
> varispeed. I could see ILTY using vaispeed since it's in a "non
> guitar key" (Ab as opposed to G), but I always thought NW, up a whole
> step, was simply using a capo (2nd fret).
I don't have actual evidence in either case, but I'm inclined to go
along with the capo theory in both cases, with room for reasonable doubt
in the ILTY case.
> Regardless, it seems that
> Rain etc. is where varispeed became a real, deliberate compositional
> tool. I kind of assumed that someone had written a "this was the 1st
> time ever" sort of passage. I guess it's just another "Beatle
> mystery..."
Tomorrow Never Knows appears to be well do***ented also, although in
this case it's applied to vocals as an tool for automated double
tracking. Rain was recorded during the same session (Revolver) as TNK
but I'm too lazy to look up in Lewisohn which song was recorded first.
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