Quote: Huge Bear @ February 6 2009, 12:52 AM GMTBadge - you can be a genius and a muso. Don't be dogmatic.
Fair point.
I was only trying to get away from the idea that *not* being a muso meant you couldn't know music.
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Quote: Badge @ February 6 2009, 12:56 AM GMTFair point.
I was only trying to get away from the idea that *not* being a muso meant you couldn't know music.
You're absolutely right. Being a genius means you don't have to work as hard as the rest. But there's nothing stopping you from doing so if you wish.
Quote: Griff @ February 6 2009, 12:47 AM GMTBy the muso do you mean the fact that Rick Wakeman was playing keyboards? Or the "muso" part of Bowie which had developed by then?
I was probably crediting Tony Visconti (and Wakeman a bit, pre-Countdown).
Quote: Moonstone @ February 6 2009, 12:56 AM GMTTake Your Mamma Out is ace!
That it is, I especially like take your It's not easy.
Quote: Huge Bear @ February 6 2009, 12:58 AM GMTYou're absolutely right. Being a genius means you don't have to work as hard as the rest. But there's nothing stopping you from doing so if you wish.
Oh yes I know 
Quote: Dr Mato @ February 6 2009, 1:16 AM GMTOh yes I know
You know how much effort you wasted posting that?
Quote: Griff @ February 6 2009, 1:17 AM GMTNow that I'm visualising Rick Wakeman handing out consonants and vowels in a frumpy dress I think it's time to go to bed.
Hey, it's only in your rules that it's frumpy!
Quote: Badge @ February 6 2009, 12:37 AM GMTAs far as I understand it, pretty much all of this was composed on acoustic guitar with chords he picked up by listening to Chuck Berry et al
The first song J&P ever wrote together was to the chords of ... damn, I can't remember. One of Buddy Holly's first hits anyway.
Quote: Badge @ February 6 2009, 12:37 AM GMTIn the 80s and beyond, when he had learned more about the structure of music, he wrote "The Frog Chorus".
*shudder*
Quote: Griff @ February 6 2009, 1:20 AM GMTIt's a safety mechanism Badge. My mind can only cope with the Wakeman in a frumpy dress. Put him in a silky satin number and I might black out with horror.
He wore a silky satin number on stage in the 70s. Frequently. Along with a large pointy hat.
Quote: Badge @ February 6 2009, 1:19 AM GMTYou know how much effort you wasted posting that?
Probably as much as you did responding. 
Does this count?
Quote: Dr Mato @ February 6 2009, 1:25 AM GMTProbably as much as you did responding.
But only one of us made claim
Quote: Badge @ February 4 2009, 12:54 AM GMTDavid Bowie once did two songs on the same album with exactly the same chord sequence - they're both great songs, but completely different.
Anyway, with musos and boozos abounding, who would care to guess the songs I referred to on page one of this thread?
Could they be, in some way, related?
Quote: Griff @ February 6 2009, 1:30 AM GMTMy God it's uncanny.
I think she's picking out one of Brian Eno's chord progressions in that picture.
It's DaButt, innit?
Quote: Griff @ February 6 2009, 1:33 AM GMTIs it "Under Pressure" and "Little Drummer Boy"?
So close! >_<