"Up until then, most of the songs basically had three chords," says Dozier. "They were very simple and, in a sense, very rock & roll, but I think the experiment of putting classical and gospel together reached full force on 'Reach Out I'll Be There'. I mean, so many people have ...
Fab Four's guitars (played by Laurence Juber, formerly a member of Paul McCartney's Wings) have plenty of performance options. The fantastic, ultra-bright, staccato Telecaster stabs of 'It's Getting Better' can be instantly key-switched between major and minor chords and octave intervals, and...
Like with their first album I've also received a promo copy of the new album, but this time 1 month before the official release and I could say one thing right after the first chords, the band stays on the good side of music. Everything they had learned in Rabbit In The Vestibule (...
Perhaps the album’s highlight is “Vector”, the most rhythmically engaging piece. Despite the freedom of the music on Reels, the piano usually doesn’t sound incoherent or jarring, but on this song, Shipp pushes the limits of conventional harmony. He does this with a constant and insisten...
Tinkertrain, has a monster riff using open power chords while pulling off the minor third on the sixth string… “That was us summoning the power of Malcolm and Angus Young. To me, it sounds very AC/DC, you know what I mean? As for the intro part, that reminds me of The Who. So...
The Breaksis also a very funny record too and that’s why I think I hold it so dear. I’ve always been with Zappa on the whole ‘does music belong in humour’thang. You say last week you met the perfect guy(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)And he promised you the stars in...
“three chords and the truth” motto to its logical conclusion. Even album cuts like “Love on the Rocks” and “Back to the Rocking Horse” rocked respectably, a major victory in the hits-and-filler era. And to understand the abject absurdity of the decade's crusading parental groups, ...