Do you ever have that? Mishear lyrics in an embarrassing way? Forever (no pun intended) I thought the chorus here was "Reverend Blue Jeans". ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQLWF_ItzYs&list=RDQQLWF_ItzYs&start_radio=1
Worse still, when I sang along to the song today in the car, of course I sang "Reverend" again, I know better, but it has become ingrained.
Another one of my howlers was to misconstrue (no doubt in an adolescent, oversexed, but underf***ed Über-projection) "Ashen Lady, Ashen Lady - give up your vows" (at 2:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE32pvvaDT8
as "I should have laid ya, I should have made ya give up your vows ...". 8) My only defense is that Alan Lancaster kinda sang it that way (at 12:38) in Quo's version. Darn Limey confused me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ObHezZoZ1I
Quote from: uwe on April 29, 2021, 06:23:31 PM
"Ashen Lady, Ashen Lady - give up your vows" (at 2:57)
That's the way I always sang it. Is it something else?
I can still remember a guy in my college dorm singing
Goodbye, Groovy Tuesday
Who put ham and eggs on you
A friend of mine had many.. One of the best came along when she listened to bon jovi and sang:
' I' m a cowboy... And I steal the horse I ride' :)
Great fun at parties, and she always defended her own version - a cowboy steal horses right!? She had a few other good ones, I must dig into my memory here..
There are complete websites with misheard lyrics. Got a few myself, but I always laugh about a friend who thought Hendrix sang 'While I kiss this guy'.
Quote from: OldManC on April 29, 2021, 09:27:45 PM
That's the way I always sang it. Is it something else?
Alan Lancaster seems to think so!
OldManC and I both misread uwe's misheard lyrics for Roadhouse Blues.
:mrgreen:
Quote from: Chris P. on April 30, 2021, 02:40:37 AM
There are complete websites with misheard lyrics. Got a few myself, but I always laugh about a friend who thought Hendrix sang 'While I kiss this guy'.
I do think that was the intended pun there
Quote from: uwe on April 29, 2021, 06:23:31 PMAnother one of my howlers was to misconstrue (no doubt in an adolescent, oversexed, but underf***ed Über-projection) "Ashen Lady, Ashen Lady - give up your vows" (at 2:57) as "I should have laid ya, I should have made ya give up your vows ...". 8) My only defense is that Alan Lancaster kinda sang it that way (at 12:38) in Quo's version. Darn Limey confused me!
I thought it was "passionate lady". ;D
Quote from: BeeTL on April 30, 2021, 05:40:49 AM
OldManC and I both misread uwe's misheard lyrics for Roadhouse Blues.
:mrgreen:
Haha! I guess I'm better at hearing than reading comprehension these days. :mrgreen:
Also: "On a stale horse I ride." I still can't help but hear it that way and it makes me laugh every time.
From Uwe's favorite band, there's Slow Motion Walter, the fire engine guy.
Another favorite of mine:
My girlfriend
She's Auntie Em
She just started to cry.
Purple Haze used to bother me before I owned a copy and heard it played on the radio...
'scuse me while I kiss this guy... :o
Quote from: Dave W on April 30, 2021, 11:02:13 PM
From Uwe's favorite band, there's Slow Motion Walter, the fire engine guy.
:mrgreen: I had no idea you could (mis)hear it like that. If Ian Gillan hears that, he'll sing it like that from then on!
And I always thought Roger Daltrey sang "Love rain on me", the Brits and their national obsession with precipitation.
Quote from: uwe on May 01, 2021, 02:52:48 PM
:mrgreen: I had no idea you could (mis)hear it like that. If Ian Gillan hears that, he'll sing it like that from then on!
I heard that a good 25 years ago, so he's probably heard it.
He plays a lot with words and mispronounciations. In the 80ies he would regularly announce their comeback track "Perfect Strangers" as
"a song about a football team down the road where I lived as a child ... in Perfect Street ... They were called The Perfect Street ... RANGERS!"
I probably misunderstood (and still misunderstand) at least 80% of the lyrics I hear in most rock songs. The music always mattered to me more than the lyrics. I often wondered why singers thought their lyrics would affect anyone when they were mostly incomprehensible the way the music was mixed. (And they way many singers garbled their lyrics while "emoting" all over the place.")
My first guess was this would be a thread about a denim covered Reverend bass guitar. Incidentally, they have an interesting G-3 kind of bass. Korina body too.
Nice enough basses but those body shapes take some getting used to.
https://www.reverendguitars.com/basses/triad
Saw this on FB today.