Alan D
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Posted: Nov. 20 2006, 10:02 |
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Quote (Matt @ Nov. 19 2006, 19:26) | Looking at the lyrics I am wondering if the choice to have two different guitarists on left and right channels reflects the themes within the song of two people connected but apart. |
Well, I don't know if it's deliberate in the way you suggest, but it's a lovely way to listen to it, and thank you for the idea. There's even a kind of sexual tension in it - the first passage, coming from the right, expressing longing and desire in a kind of urgent, masculine way, and the answer, coming from the left, being quite gentle and reassuringly feminine.
Quote | Also, if you haven't read the notes on the album, would you guess which channel was Mike. |
My CD doesn't seem to have any notes of substance (why not, I ask??) so I don't have anything to refer to. The character of the two (right and left) is very different in the way I mentioned above, but I could easily have believed that both were Mike - letting the piercing emotion fly on the right, and deliberately restraining the answering emotion on the left. But you say there are two guitarists, and so if that's right then I'd put my money on Mike being the right hand guitar, opening that wonderful break, and Mr X answering on the left.
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