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Ok now we are getting into who fucking cares territory but it's been bugging me.
Since it came out there is a bit in the Bullet Boys song Smooth Up In Ya that has bothered me.
In the guitar solo at 2:37 - 2:39 in the YouTube clip here, there is a guitar run that always jarred with me as being just terrible. Then I went through a phase of thinking it's so wrong it must be clever and it's my fault but I don't think so now for two reasons. Firstly I still don't have much music theory 30 years on but it still sounds wrong to me. He's doing a pentatonic run in E over a D on the bass. Now I know just from jamming not the theory of why that you can get away with this over an A and the song is in A but not when the bass note is D and that is why it sounds wrong. The second reason I know it was wrong is maybe a bit more interesting and why I'm posting this. I was flipping through songs in my car HD today and came across 'Smooth Up in Ya: The Best of the Bulletboys' from 2006 (I guess they couldn't call it Greatest Hits) and the run has gone - it's been removed.
So my queries are
a) How did Ted Templeman ever let this through during production?
b) Is it wrong musically or am I talking shit (extra points for music theory stuff.
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c) Where did the run go on the compilation? Did they rerecord it? Who rerecorded it?
Also I know the guy that wrote the recent TT biography posts here, did this album come up in the interviews it's only mentioned in passing?
I found it a little sad that out of all the albums to produce at this time when this kind of stuff was at it's peak he chose a decent but clearly a poor mans Van Halen knock off band to produce. It's not a criticism of them and I say that as someone who has always played in bands of varying degrees of that myself but hey he's Ted fucking Templeman.
Since it came out there is a bit in the Bullet Boys song Smooth Up In Ya that has bothered me.
In the guitar solo at 2:37 - 2:39 in the YouTube clip here, there is a guitar run that always jarred with me as being just terrible. Then I went through a phase of thinking it's so wrong it must be clever and it's my fault but I don't think so now for two reasons. Firstly I still don't have much music theory 30 years on but it still sounds wrong to me. He's doing a pentatonic run in E over a D on the bass. Now I know just from jamming not the theory of why that you can get away with this over an A and the song is in A but not when the bass note is D and that is why it sounds wrong. The second reason I know it was wrong is maybe a bit more interesting and why I'm posting this. I was flipping through songs in my car HD today and came across 'Smooth Up in Ya: The Best of the Bulletboys' from 2006 (I guess they couldn't call it Greatest Hits) and the run has gone - it's been removed.
So my queries are
a) How did Ted Templeman ever let this through during production?
b) Is it wrong musically or am I talking shit (extra points for music theory stuff.
)c) Where did the run go on the compilation? Did they rerecord it? Who rerecorded it?
Also I know the guy that wrote the recent TT biography posts here, did this album come up in the interviews it's only mentioned in passing?
I found it a little sad that out of all the albums to produce at this time when this kind of stuff was at it's peak he chose a decent but clearly a poor mans Van Halen knock off band to produce. It's not a criticism of them and I say that as someone who has always played in bands of varying degrees of that myself but hey he's Ted fucking Templeman.
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