Red Mosquito

Matters wrote:I’m really enjoying this. It gets into my soul right from the start. I kinda wish it would lose its shit more towards the end though.

I was reading about the original on Wiki and saw this cool story about the guitar tuning:

"Save It for Later" features a unique DADAAD tuning that Wakeling stumbled upon; he explained, "I had tried to tune my guitar to DADGAD to play along with Jon Martyn tunes in late 70's before the English Beat started. I accidentally came up with DADAAD, so I made up my own chord shapes and enjoyed the hypnotic drone of the tuning on my national steel for hour after hour." Due to the song's atypical tuning, Who guitarist Pete Townshend called Wakeling to ask how to play the song:
"I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” [Laughs.] I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, 'Oh, hello Pete.' And he said, 'Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour [of Pink Floyd], and we're trying to work out your song 'Save It for Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.' They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, 'Oh, thank heavens for that! We've been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.'"
— Dave Wakeling

warehouse wrote:

Matters wrote:I’m really enjoying this. It gets into my soul right from the start. I kinda wish it would lose its shit more towards the end though.

I was reading about the original on Wiki and saw this cool story about the guitar tuning:

"Save It for Later" features a unique DADAAD tuning that Wakeling stumbled upon; he explained, "I had tried to tune my guitar to DADGAD to play along with Jon Martyn tunes in late 70's before the English Beat started. I accidentally came up with DADAAD, so I made up my own chord shapes and enjoyed the hypnotic drone of the tuning on my national steel for hour after hour." Due to the song's atypical tuning, Who guitarist Pete Townshend called Wakeling to ask how to play the song:
"I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” [Laughs.] I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, 'Oh, hello Pete.' And he said, 'Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour [of Pink Floyd], and we're trying to work out your song 'Save It for Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.' They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, 'Oh, thank heavens for that! We've been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.'"
— Dave Wakeling

i always thought it was just the same chords as 'betterman'

Bammer wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Matters wrote:I’m really enjoying this. It gets into my soul right from the start. I kinda wish it would lose its shit more towards the end though.

I was reading about the original on Wiki and saw this cool story about the guitar tuning:

"Save It for Later" features a unique DADAAD tuning that Wakeling stumbled upon; he explained, "I had tried to tune my guitar to DADGAD to play along with Jon Martyn tunes in late 70's before the English Beat started. I accidentally came up with DADAAD, so I made up my own chord shapes and enjoyed the hypnotic drone of the tuning on my national steel for hour after hour." Due to the song's atypical tuning, Who guitarist Pete Townshend called Wakeling to ask how to play the song:
"I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” [Laughs.] I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, 'Oh, hello Pete.' And he said, 'Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour [of Pink Floyd], and we're trying to work out your song 'Save It for Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.' They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, 'Oh, thank heavens for that! We've been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.'"
— Dave Wakeling

i always thought it was just the same chords as 'betterman'

Yeah same here. I don’t buy this story.

Strat wrote:

Bammer wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Matters wrote:I’m really enjoying this. It gets into my soul right from the start. I kinda wish it would lose its shit more towards the end though.

I was reading about the original on Wiki and saw this cool story about the guitar tuning:

"Save It for Later" features a unique DADAAD tuning that Wakeling stumbled upon; he explained, "I had tried to tune my guitar to DADGAD to play along with Jon Martyn tunes in late 70's before the English Beat started. I accidentally came up with DADAAD, so I made up my own chord shapes and enjoyed the hypnotic drone of the tuning on my national steel for hour after hour." Due to the song's atypical tuning, Who guitarist Pete Townshend called Wakeling to ask how to play the song:
"I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” [Laughs.] I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, 'Oh, hello Pete.' And he said, 'Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour [of Pink Floyd], and we're trying to work out your song 'Save It for Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.' They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, 'Oh, thank heavens for that! We've been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.'"
— Dave Wakeling

i always thought it was just the same chords as 'betterman'

Yeah same here. I don’t buy this story.

you can still make those "chords" with that tuning. I've never played along to see if the original version is actually D A and G though.

Matters wrote:Better Man: Written By Eddie Vedder prior to the formation of Pearl Jam. Due to internal disagreement, Better Man was not released until the band’s third album and then became one of Pearl Jam’s most popular songs.

Save It for Later: Written by Dave Wakeling prior to the formation of The English Beat. Due to internal disagreement, Save It for Later was not released until the band’s third album and then became one of The English Beat’s most popular songs.

Strat wrote: you can still make those "chords" with that tuning. I've never played along to see if the original version is actually D A and G though.

sweeper wrote:It sounds like Ed may have a studio cover of Petty's 'Room at the Top' coming out on Friday.

sweeper wrote:It sounds like Ed may have a studio cover of Petty's 'Room at the Top' coming out on Friday.

VinylGuy wrote:

sweeper wrote:It sounds like Ed may have a studio cover of Petty's 'Room at the Top' coming out on Friday.

really? kinda out of the blue...maybe he and Watt have a covers album or something cooking?

Strat wrote:Also I have a feeling this is a touched up version from the earthlings show in LA with tench.

Strat wrote:Also I have a feeling this is a touched up version from the earthlings show in LA with tench.