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Post by Eloise on Apr 19, 2017 21:39:01 GMT
Oh, come on! It's not that bad. To this day, I still have not heard The Battle of Marston Moor in its entirety but I'll listen to Who's That? anytime.
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Post by unomusette on Apr 19, 2017 21:48:06 GMT
I'm sure I read somewhere in the Flashback booklet that Richard T was involved in Who's That?
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 19, 2017 21:50:41 GMT
I'm sure I read somewhere in the Flashback booklet that Richard T was involved in Who's That? Chief raspberry blower was our Richard...
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Post by BSJ on Apr 19, 2017 22:11:16 GMT
No never heard it, cute. It's "Quirky Jeff" as Uno calls him. Never heard it? where have you been?.... this ranks up there with the likes of The Battle of Marston Moor! So shoot me! Let's use my crappy memory as an excuse.
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 19, 2017 22:12:56 GMT
Can't ever see this being sang at gigs anytime soon...
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 19, 2017 22:13:49 GMT
IDEA! cancel that poll Horace, let's all campaign for this song to be sung!
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Post by Eloise on Apr 19, 2017 22:16:10 GMT
Why is Richard the chief raspberry blower?
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 19, 2017 22:21:14 GMT
Why is Richard the chief raspberry blower? Can't you hear them being blown?
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Post by unomusette on Apr 19, 2017 22:25:42 GMT
IDEA! cancel that poll Horace, let's all campaign for this song to be sung! It would make a splendid intro, that's for sure
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 19, 2017 22:29:45 GMT
Thinking more of the encore....hehe
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Post by ShardEnder on Apr 19, 2017 23:05:47 GMT
Just as the brief jam at the end of Everyone's Born To Die was a short moment of levity before Jeff instructed the group to resume work on more "serious music" again, Who's That? was based on an outtake from the Secret Messages sessions at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum during late 1982, specifically being recorded earlier in the same day as part of Hello My Old Friend - you can even hear Jeff playing a short keyboard line near the beginning on the Oberheim OB-Xa using the exact brass sound Richard would later use on the album's intended swansong. Due to its simplistic nature, little is known about this throwaway track only completed years after the fact, though Jeff's raspberry (and another very different type of noise, also created with his body!) was sampled onto Dave Morgan's DMX drum machine then played back at half octave intervals by modifying the pitch controls of its internal voice cards. As for the tap dancing percussion, this was achieved by someone tapping a ballpoint pen on the top of a table in the control room, where much of the Secret Messages material was painstakingly overdubbed across a period that spanned several months, often leaving Bev in particular with little to do except wait until his mostly cymbal and rototom contributions were required, as the majority of drumming came was actually programmed using the aforementioned DMX. Oh, and that massive final note is a snippet left over from Louis Clark's arrangements for the Hilversum Radio Orchestra and Chorus, which featured on several other tracks including Hello My Old Friend.
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Post by Eloise on Apr 20, 2017 3:10:30 GMT
Why is Richard the chief raspberry blower? Can't you hear them being blown? Yeah, but I thought that was Rosie making those obnoxious sounds.
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Post by Horacewimp on Apr 20, 2017 7:29:11 GMT
I heard it when Flashback was released, it always sounded to me like like was trying to do a Goons or Monty Python type song.
Something similar to this around 1 minute in.
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Post by Timeblue on Apr 20, 2017 8:28:04 GMT
Just as the brief jam at the end of Everyone's Born To Die was a short moment of levity before Jeff instructed the group to resume work on more "serious music" again, Who's That? was based on an outtake from the Secret Messages sessions at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum during late 1982, specifically being recorded earlier in the same day as part of Hello My Old Friend - you can even hear Jeff playing a short keyboard line near the beginning on the Oberheim OB-Xa using the exact brass sound Richard would later use on the album's intended swansong. Due to its simplistic nature, little is known about this throwaway track only completed years after the fact, though Jeff's raspberry (and another very different type of noise, also created with his body!) was sampled onto Dave Morgan's DMX drum machine then played back at half octave intervals by modifying the pitch controls of its internal voice cards. As for the tap dancing percussion, this was achieved by someone tapping a ballpoint pen on the top of a table in the control room, where much of the Secret Messages material was painstakingly overdubbed across a period that spanned several months, often leaving Bev in particular with little to do except wait until his mostly cymbal and rototom contributions were required, as the majority of drumming came was actually programmed using the aforementioned DMX. Oh, and that massive final note is a snippet left over from Louis Clark's arrangements for the Hilversum Radio Orchestra and Chorus, which featured on several other tracks including Hello My Old Friend. Thanks Shard,as ever the font of all ELO knowledge.
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Post by tightrope on Apr 21, 2017 20:45:21 GMT
LOL. Yes! More hot sauce on the taco to make the tune flow better.
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