| ▲ | In 1979 one of the best guitar solos recorded was cut for radio time(seekhifi.com) |
| 47 points by wmeredith 2 days ago | 27 comments |
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| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| The worst, for me, was watching a Gary Clark Jr live recording (I think it was When My Train Pulls In) on YouTube. He had a long solo, and, right in the middle of it, a damn Cialis ad pops in. |
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| ▲ | db48x 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Adblockers solve so many problems. | | | |
| ▲ | comrade1234 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | When my train pulls in... Cialis ad... Am I just pointing out the obvious joke that you made, thus making it unfunny? | | |
| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Well, the Internet knows I'm a white guy in my 60s, so I get these really weird ads, all the time. Wouldn't surprise me, it the choice of ad was deliberate. These ads look like they were designed by young folks, that have no idea what it's like, being older. AI is making them even weirder. | | |
| ▲ | IAmBroom a day ago | parent [-] | | Scene: ordinary couple, on a cliffside, both naked and sitting in side-by-side bathtubs, holding hands. |
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| ▲ | browningstreet 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Pay for YouTube | | |
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| ▲ | alsetmusic 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Beatles never sat on the stereo mixes for any of their songs because the radio of the time was AM / mono. All the stereo mixes were done by their producer / sound engineers / possibly others without their input. Not that they were cut out or anything; they just didn't care. |
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| ▲ | ribfeasty 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The Beatles (especially John) also hated the tedium of re-recording vocals to layer them, as is common in audio production to improve the impact of vocals in recordings. Their engineer ended up coming up with a technical approach we call ADT (Automatic double-tracking) to artificially duplicate and layer the vocals without requiring the artist(s) to re-record vocals. | | |
| ▲ | IAmBroom a day ago | parent [-] | | IIRC, Richard Carpenter took this to the Nth level. He found the recording equipment with the largest number of tape tracks - 28 - and used them all to layer Karen's voice. She had an amazing voice, but she also stood out because of his technical nuancing of their sound. |
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| ▲ | jdalgetty 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm too young to know the radio version but I've definitely enjoyed the solo for many years listening to the mp3 version. |
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| ▲ | bitwize 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Fun fact: Sharona Alperin, now a realtor, uses her status as the subject of this song to market her real estate business. https://mysharona.com |
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| ▲ | wmeredith 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm not sure about the rules of submitting something like this to Hacker News, but I found it to be a fascinating quirk at the intersection of culture and technology. I didn't even know about it (the radio edit) when I started researching this song for my website. The gist is below. The Knack's 1979 breakout hit My Sharona is remembered for spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, but that radio edit is woefully incomplete. Lead guitarist Berton Averre’s full-length My Sharona solo is absolutely transcendent. Which makes it all the more ridiculous that it was cut for time on the radio release. |
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| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Tons of songs were cut. It's still typical to have "radio edits" of songs. When the tech came out, that allowed the tempo to be increased, without changing the pitch, a lot of songs suddenly got faster. In radio, every second counts, and there will be a lot of fighting for tenths of a second. Sort of like top-shelf track and field athletes. The prose in that story is a bit ... intense. | |
| ▲ | MarkusWandel a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oddly enough... I looked for the full length version, played it through and... yep, that's how I remember it. From what I recorded off the radio as a 12 year old in Germany. I guess they ran the full length version there. |
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| ▲ | marshray 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wow, I'd never heard that before. That was really wonderful. All those times I'd listened to it on the radio... I knew it was missing something. |
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| ▲ | kristianp 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Favourite guitar solos? I like "Sweet Child of Mine" and "Brothers in Arms". |
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| ▲ | wmeredith 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm partial to the solo in comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. | |
| ▲ | johnh-hn 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Slash's World on Fire album (2014) is excellent, in case you're interested. |
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| ▲ | andrewstuart 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What an awesome guitar solo. I think my favorite of any. In fact the entire album is really awesome. |
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| ▲ | dundercoder 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That was some serious musicianship right there! |
