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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: 2 more replies
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Time: 4:43:51 AM
Remote Address: 162.255.157.10
Message ID: 289210
Parent ID: 289194
Thread ID: 289164
Sway wrote:
I don't mind remakes of certain songs...but not all time greats like Layla. The only exception, for me, believe it or not, is SFTD by GnR.
Do you mean you don't like remakes - or your don't like covers? There's a difference, and I think by what you noted, it's covers that you don't like? A song is usually only called a remake when the artist who wrote it and recorded it in the studio, redoes the song again in the studio after the first version was already released. What G&R did with SFTD was a cover, not a remake, since it wasn't their song. BUT, any artist who at first covered a song and then months or years later go back into the studio and totally redo that same song/cover, then it would be a remake of their cover - like the Stones redoing "Time is on my Side". So you don't like covers? You must dislike the entire first Stones LP if that's the case!
I wrote:
"John on the other hand played nothing on this great song, ...[he] came up with a bit of the lyrics, the ones about Harold Wilson and Edward Heath."
and then DA wrote:
Are you sure that he came up with the Wilson/Heath line? I read in some Beatles book a long time ago that George wrote that song because he was getting really tired of paying so much tax.
Yes, the high tax rate was the reason why George wrote the song, not sure if it was the same tax rate that made the Stones move to France, or a different one, but high taxes was the reason the song was written.
The story I read about Lennon coming up with the Wilson/Heath line was simple... The song was already written and John was adding his backing vocals, and there was another line they were using there (which you can hear John sing on one of the Anthology LPs, it went something like, "Anybody got any money left?"), but on the final take, Lennon being Lennon, sang the Wilson/Heath line instead, as it just came to him at that moment, and George liked it better, so they kept it. John was known to do that in the studio, he did the same thing on another Harrison song, "Piggies", with the lyrics about the piggies "clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon". That also came about by John as the song was being made.
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