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Pudding 06:25 am UTC 05/07/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Nowhere Fast Video - Wilbury 05:18 am UTC 05/07/07 |
| From the songs Meat has had an hand in writing in the past, I highly doubt he touched any of the songs on TMIL, I reckon Desmond Childbeater did the tinkering. Pud > My theory is that the "official story" of it being an > earlier draft is entirely true, BUT Meat also tinkered > with it. I'd say HE was the one that dropped the God Speed > part (just like he did with BfG more recently) and the > Storm chord structure. > > I'd say it got given to meat in a pretty similar > arrangement tot eh SoF version but with different lyrics > and verse structure, and then meat changed bits and voila! > A little difference here + a little diffference there > equals a very different song. > > Consider if Meat were to have recorded Braver Than We Are > for TMiL. He would have been using a "draft", in so far as > it has since been re-written and re-written a million > times since Meat got a hold of it. > > And PIG too. Between the changes Meat has made, and > whatever hcanges Jim might make from here on in, the same > thing could happen. > > > > > > > > I'm still confused as to why that song sounds like that. > > > > > > In the verses, I mean. > > > > You mean, why does it sound different to the "Streets Of > > Fire" version? That's an interesting question. It doesn't > > seem Steinman was involved with the BA album in any > > capacity. You could almost say Meat covered two of his > > songs but "Nowhere Fast" is a LOT different to the SOF > > version. The official story I've heard is that Meat's > > version is the first draft of "Nowhere Fast" completed for > > SOF. But then Jim wrote a better version, used that and > > gave the first draft to Meat. > > > > | |
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