Fretwork Homework rather excellently captures the spirit of being in a band with yer college mates. More importantly, I’m extremely concerned for Lisa Dominique’s welfare, as her website doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2002. I only hope she hasn’t gone the way of that one out of Climie Fisher. Thanks to gNick
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Dave Betts
Curious, there’s precious little about Ms Dominique on t’Interweb, no entry on Wikipedia even.
Perhaps it’s time to start a revival or try asking Q where she is? Or is that a can of worms that should remain unopened? And why am I asking so many questions? Hello?
Jul 1st, 2009
Malcolm of Arimathea
You’re right. It doesn’t bode well. All the internet paths seem to fade away in 2002 (at the latest).
I suppose I’m intrigued to know if the chords in the final verse are indeed augmented. As a flautist with only a grade 5 theory and o-level music understanding of chords, that’s a bit beyond me.
Jul 2nd, 2009
Dave Betts
Good point Malcolm. As a shockingly poor self taught guitarist I have no idea of the chords are indeed augmented but I’m sure someone knows.
I was thinking of HMHB’s tributes to ‘Metal’ on Saturday night when I found myself, as a result of some post stop-tap refereshment requirements, in the presence of Grim Reaper (the NWOBHM band, not the Pale Rider). “Thank you Swansea” to a couple of dozen people leads me to believe that the lead singer is suffering from delusions of grandeur. Good set of pipes on him though.
Jul 6th, 2009
Charles Exford
I think I remember a music teacher telling us that augmented chords were sort of like those dissonant single piano chords you get when the heroine gets distressed in an early 1920s movie. Or as the camera pans over no mans’ land in footage of the Somme.
Which, if I remember correctly, is not at all like the actual chords of this song. But I may be wrong.
Jul 6th, 2009
Steve Malkmoose
I play bass so chords are a mystery to me
That is one of the great all time rhyming couplets though, up there with the Bards finest
Jul 14th, 2009
Dave Betts
There are bass chords though aren’t there? I wonder if there are augmented bass chords…
Jul 15th, 2009
Neil G
A regular major chord is made up of the first, third and fifth of the scale, e.g. C is made up of C, E and G. An augmented chord has a sharpened fifth (nearly typed filth there), so C-aug would be made up of C, E, and G sharp. They add spice to a piece but you wouldn’t want to listen to them all the time, unless you’re a jazz musician, of course. They seem to love them.
Jul 15th, 2009
a_p
I like a combination of augmented and diminished chords — produces what we in the jazz world call demented.
Jul 15th, 2009
Dave Betts
“We in the jazz world”; a phrase to strike fear into the heart of anyone with a chronic fear of atonalism. But jazz is a broad church. A church I choose to avoid but recognise at heart is not a bad thing, but any form of music which requires heroin to really make it work (being mentally ill also helps) ain’t for me. God bless Miles Davies though, he contributed more to music than the self-proclaimed “King of Pop” ever did.
Jul 16th, 2009
Ben
As Tony Wilson said, at least Coogans interpretation of him “Jazz is the only time you’ll see the musicians having more fun than the audience”
Jul 17th, 2009
Dave Betts
Or as John Thompson in his role as Jazz Club compere on The Fast Show once said:
“Acker Bilk… Sh*te”
Jul 19th, 2009
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