Post your spectacular mishearings of rock lyrics here!

Started by uwe, July 05, 2012, 06:44:27 AM

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Dave W

#30
July 10, 2012, 12:19:43 PM
^ ^ ^

Funny. But I don't remember anyone misunderstanding Springsteen's original. Blame it on Manfred Mann.

Highlander

#31
July 10, 2012, 04:02:07 PM
I was thinking about that one...

No mistaking this one... ;D

The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
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godofthunder

#32
July 10, 2012, 06:20:04 PM
Quote from: uwe on July 05, 2012, 10:10:07 AM
I saw Slade live twice - I think the badge "hortissimo" was squarely and fairly with Jim Lea, his bass was so loud it caused nose bleeding with audience members (no joke). And I remember him standing on top of the PA playing his bass solo and that was incredibly loud as well.
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godofthunder

#33
July 10, 2012, 06:30:23 PM
Quote from: uwe on July 05, 2012, 07:52:16 AM
That is interesting, because I always understood Freddie on that track quite clearly, maybe because we're more used to Brit pronounciations from school than you guys. And of course he name-checks a lot of things familiar to a European.  

Much easier at least than Slade who on Thanks for the Memory



sing: "have a housemaid on your knee" (with the best intentions, I'm sure) where I as a teenager heard "have a house made of your knee" (given the UK's post-war economic issues I thought that they were once again maybe short of building material!  :mrgreen:). Goes to show we didn't have a lot of housemaids at home in our castle, at least not on my knee! I also thought that the Fender Rhodes intro was played on a bass with crispy-fresh new roundwounds ...  ;D It is the bass sound (similar to the Fender Rhodes riffs at the start of Ike and Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits) that I vainly attempted to get right for myself for years back then.  :-[


My Hiwatt DR201 is in that video!  ;D
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uwe

#34
July 11, 2012, 06:40:52 AM
Quote from: Basvarken on July 06, 2012, 01:40:45 PM
Vader Abraham alias Pierre Kartner is one of the worst export products of The Netherlands.
He's sickened the airwaves for decades with his stupidities.

I used to be in love with Teach In lead singer Getty when I was an 8 year old 
I had no idea what she was singing about. Still don't ... :mrgreen:


That Herman Brood song -based on the brilliant riff from guitarist Danny Lademacher- must have made an impression on the native Americans:



Blackfoot do it well, is that Ken Hensley pushing the keys on that version?
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

gweimer

#35
July 11, 2012, 07:23:03 AM
Quote from: uwe on July 11, 2012, 06:40:52 AM
Blackfoot do it well, is that Ken Hensley pushing the keys on that version?

Probably.  Hensley was with Blackfoot for Siago and Vertical Smiles, if memory serves correct.
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