The f’s just roll into each other. Annie makes more sense.
― henry s, Friday, 11 August 2023 02:46 (one year ago) link
I think it's both! Or, rather, all three.
Annie in the chorus, Anna Lee in the third verse, and Fanny in the fifth v verse.
She's the only one who sends me here with her regards for everyone. That's definitely Fanny.
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 August 2023 02:57 (one year ago) link
I get how Annie is short for Anna Lee but Fanny doesn’t seem to fit in at all. I guess it was sort of an in-vogue hippy chick name at the time.
― henry s, Friday, 11 August 2023 03:14 (one year ago) link
According to Wikipedia, Fanny and Anna Lee are different people.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 11 August 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
I love Before the Flood but it's also kind of ludicrous, isn't it? Dylan's singing is all over the place and lots of bellowing, the songs sacrifice subtlety for velocity and volume. But the Band sounds great.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 August 2023 03:47 (one year ago) link
And its version of "It Ain't Me Babe" rules, practically punk.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 August 2023 03:49 (one year ago) link
I'm guessing Barry Gibb was a fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtzloiPxZE
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 11 August 2023 07:23 (one year ago) link
Randy Bachman from FB:
I first met Robbie Robertson at Le coq D’or in Toronto in 1964 when The Guess Who was just taking off with “Shakin’ All Over.” He played so bluesey and incredible that I took the opportunity to ask him how he bent notes like that. He said the secret was to buy a set of Gretsch Strings and put them on his Telecaster. So the extra 2 strings meant he strung a High E, a B and then another B instead of the G. This allows you tobend them to play blues notes. It literally transformed my entire style of playing and stayed with me throughout my career. Thank you for the incredible music. #RIP #musician
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, August 10, 2023 10:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
totally i've always loved the complete coked out mania of that record
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
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My understanding is that back then, packs of strings came with a hard-to-bend wound G. So I guess Bachman means that Robertson's One Weird Old Trick was to use a spare B - which was unwound - for his G. What I don't get is the implication that Gretsch guitars had eight strings?
― Vast Halo, Friday, 11 August 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
there was "nashville tuning" as well, he may have gotten the idea from that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_tuning_(high_strung)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
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Love Garth's bonkers little synth flourishes on "Ballad of A Thin Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3X82K7YU4k
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 11 August 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
Before the Flood is definitely bonkers. That tour (which was only 6 weeks long) and especially that album got a lot of ridiculous praise when they first came out, and I understand why - except for the occasional one-off show or guest appearance, Dylan hadn't toured in eight years, and that was the legendary 1966 tour. Even his recording output had slowed down to a trickle. The hype of having him back, on stage and on record, with no less than the Band was unavoidable.
I always got the impression that the adoration for those shows soon faded (at least by the end of the decade), and since then has only drawn mixed reactions. It's still a good tour, and had I been alive and caught any of those shows, I'm sure it would've been a contender for THE greatest concert experience I've ever had. I think it's great how Dylan seems to be raging against nostalgia - even though his setlists leaned heavily on his best-known songs (particularly three weeks in when he more or less stopped playing any new material) and everyone's reason to go was more or less nostalgia, the performances are ferocious and none of the arrangements try to re-create what he put on record, a practice he continues to this day. But performance-wise it was still a cut below their best tours - 1966 and 1975 for Dylan, the "Rock of Ages"/Academy shows from 1971 for the Band - and they all seemed to know it. It's strange that the final shows dominate the live album because by the end of the tour, Dylan was oversinging by his own admission, just doing it with as much force as possible with very little subtlety.
― birdistheword, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
one great thing about the 1974 Dylan/Band shows is that Robertson kind of cuts loose on the Dylan material — he kinda stuck close to the script on The Band stuff during their live shows, but there are some recordings in 74 where he's seriously just winging it and sounding incredible... one of the Tom Thumb Blues from that tour is incredible. I think they could definitely do a big set a la the 75 Rolling Thunder collection that would be killer (and get people to reassess the vibe of that period somewhat).
― tylerw, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
The Bootleg Series Vol. 20: Wow, Lotta Energy, Man
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
probably the only time he got back to that level of mania was the trouble no more stuff but i guess that was jesus instead of coke (supposedly)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
A shot of love'll make you goofy
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
at the time the tour was the most successful ever
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
i remember my biology teacher went. why didn't i go?
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
haha love this
This is my all-time favourite Robbie Robertson interview moment. Funny and also comforting in some kind of way pic.twitter.com/hIkiJby6SW— HarryHew (@harryhew) August 11, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
i think ed ward ultimately soured on them.
https://waynerobins.substack.com/p/the-last-waltz-thanksgiving-day-1976-e33?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 11 August 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--VbonElik--/a_0/f_auto,t_large/v1667659608/tpuqb3s6rdvnqg345lzd.jpg
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 11 August 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
That clip is great, thanks.
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Thanks, bulb. That explains it. So Gretsch gave you spares as standard! I'm wondering what the business model was? It's hard to imagine archtop players regularly snapping their high strings with wild four-semitone bends.
― Vast Halo, Friday, 11 August 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
Had been thinking we should have a poll about which string on our guitar tends to break. For me it’s the D string.
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
The Jesus of Coke.
^^Best Nick Lowe album.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 August 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link
Take the load off NME.
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
I love the sound of scraping glass.
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 21:52 (one year ago) link
Charlie Prevost
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 August 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
Jemima Surrender to the Rhythm
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 23:30 (one year ago) link
I shall be resneezed
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
Lol
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:56 (one year ago) link
Virgil ‘Caine is my name
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:07 (one year ago) link
they called it rock
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 12 August 2023 12:55 (one year ago) link
I Love My Black Label
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzHRXx-O7Ys
― buzza, Sunday, 13 August 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
just posted
https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-167-the-weight-by-the-band/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 14 August 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
Cool. I will listen while sitting here in the waiting room at the doctor’s office.
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 August 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
The Wait
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 14 August 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
Only two hours???? C’mon man.
― tobo73, Monday, 14 August 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
It won't be the only Band episode, though.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 14 August 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
20 minutes in. So far so good.
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 August 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
I am still dealing with the ramifications of realizing just last week that it's "Take a load off FANNY" and not "off ANNIE." All these years I thought it was about one person but it's about somebody totally different.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 August 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
what?!
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 August 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
https://genius.com/The-band-the-weight-lyrics
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 August 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
it's in the grand tradition of the answer record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc1ZTXCBeOs
― mark s, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
Work with me, Fanny.
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
There’s also a certain cartoon I wasn’t going to mention but…
"Well there was a stack of Playboys in the basement at Big Pink, and I was just paging through them one day ..."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 August 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link