"trensidoh" wrote:
IMHO, the Athens version was the best they did in years ! That song HAS to be played ragged & loose, just like the way they did it in the early days. It needs to be played VERY slow – that way the guitar solo will totally explode. It just has to sound "broken".
Funny, the slow, of course…..that’s the song….the ragged, I’m okay with…….something happened inside the loose that again, imho…had everything to do with a timing thing going on between J and Murph, It was a sort of "Who’s following Who deal"…with J sort of saying (muscially) to Murph….you go ahead….I’m following you, and Murph was like…No, no, you first, I’m following your lead….and J, it seemed to me,was sort of like just hold the beat, and Murph was like…..Fudge Cakes….I don’t know what’s going on here… it was a bit of a struggle, but like I say, it’s a hard song….the guitar, the lyrics and the beat…move in different directions and then meet up at important upward leaning junctures, I think it is one of the weirdest Dinosaur Jr. songs and I like it for that reason, it just was not doing it for me that night. The timing thing was causing some sort of internal distress for me.
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