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tomk
Don't forget Wood's great licks on the B-bender.
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olorin
Strange it was never released on any live album !
What about Sweet Summer Sun - Live In Hyde Park
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hot stuff
Keith voice in Before they make me run has always intrugued me.
thin, high-pitched, nasal.
its even TOO thin and TOO high-pitched for 1978. If you listen to keith singing during 78 usa tour, his voice had already changed. lower, i'd say broken. maybe Keith lost that typical 1969-1977 timbre just while recording some girls.
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First GREAT song, but has never worked live because of the voice change.
From 1975-81 Keith sounded a lot better in the studio than on stage, 1978 was the turning point for everything for him. His whole look and demeanor change drastically (for the worse imho) between 1978 and 1979.
As far as live, the last time Keith really sounded high pitched and (to my ears) consistently good on stage was at the First Barbarians concerts in 1974. In 1975-78 he would shout a lot somewhat gruffly, but he still could sing higher when he was quieter. For example on the 1978 tour with Far Away Eyes he is hitting some notes I can't even imagine him hitting by the New Barbarians tour, and absolutely not by the 1981 tour.
Go to the studio and through 1978 he sounds very,clear for the most part. As late as "We Had It All" in 1979 he's got the old sound which I greatly prefer. Yet that seems to be an anomaly, generally I start hearing the gruffness enter for good in 1979 with All About You, and Let's Go Steady. Now I believe he recorded the demo vocal of Little T&A in 1979 and the final vocal in 1980? I for one hear a difference even between these two as he sounds worse on the final one to me.
Why the fast decline? I think when he smashed his nose in at the Fall 1978 sessions (look how different he looks and sounds on SNL 1978 compared to the tour), it messed his voice up worse than it already was getting. I mean the 1978 promo vids with live vocals he looks and sounds like a different man than the one you see less than a year later with the New Barbarians. Had he quit all bad habits then I bet he could have saved his face and voice. By the 1981 tour there wasn't a trace of the old Keith left, and I guess the Undercover sessions would be the first where you basically can't hear any of the old voice at all. By 1982 it was too late for the face or the voice.
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mikeeder
Why the fast decline? I think when he smashed his nose in at the Fall 1978 sessions (look how different he looks and sounds on SNL 1978 compared to the tour), it messed his voice up worse than it already was getting.
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olorin
Strange it was never released on any live album !
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olorin
Strange it was never released on any live album !
There is a live version from Paris 2003 on a single
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DandelionPowderman
I like the New Barbarians-version the most. The one with the triple intro (Buried Alive).
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DoomandGloom
"I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well.". Straight heroin talk, I've pulled more than one drowning rockstar out of the toilet after a puke party and believe me they were having the time of their lives, head first in the bowl. Very glamorous but BTMMR is not so glamorous. Friends dying, it's all true. I've read here the song was actually written by Mick for Keith. Last song Keith wrote by himself has been reported here to be "Happy". Is that true?
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Slick
great on some girls and barbarians live,
but ridiculous with cheezy horn section and backing vocals,
kills the whole vibe of the song.
not as embarrassing as vegas T&A though.
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Rockman
I fink it had something to do with Keef's decision to not wear underpants anymore ....
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gibsonman
Comparing this to the one DP posted of New Barbarians in -79 you might say some things have changed when it comes to the guitarplaying in this song.... I like Ronnies playing on this one. It`s clear that it is him who runs the song nowadays....