(TV) Rex I Salute You / Journalists / Mr. Secret "J" / 90% and Rising / Disclosure

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

Rex,
You are absolutely not talking gibberish--and what you say 
is not only relevant but it goes to the heart of the problem.  

I think a large part of the recent discussion (debate?) 
derives from a misunderstanding of terms which Rex has 
beautifully described.

When I am talking about parts/solos being 'switched' I'm 
talking about role(s) as  Rex lays it out it in his 
interpretation #"One"'.  I wasn't talking about a 
parts/solos switching interpretation as Rex describes 
it in his  #"Two" (despite my wise-ass remark in 
my last PS). 

Scott, I can't tell if you're mocking me or not :>) but 
I'll assume you're not.  But I'm not the journalist, I'm 
just a guy who drinks too much coffee and reads too many 
journalists' critiques (good and bad) oo Television.
And as far as the List goes, Keith, Ty, and Maurice (and 
others who I apologize for leaving out) are the real 
journalists.  (Trivia: Ms Secret X had a masters degree 
in journalism.)  

Regarding Mr. "J", if you add "+1" to "J" in the alphabet 
you get "K"eith from whose The Wonder I quoted (and if you 
subtract Lee Harvey Oswald former Street number address 
from Clay Shaw's license plate # you get Jack Ruby's 
strip Club's answering machine). 

I also just upped the likelihood of Per being right (and 
me being wrong) about "Call Mr. Lee to 90%.  Not based 
on any new evidence--just my intuition.

And last but not least, Disclosure:
I own every one of Richard Lloyd's studio records 
including his studio work with Mathew Sweet and his 
1980[?] 45 rpm single cover of the Stones "Get Off of My 
Cloud", as well as several boots of Rocket From The 
Tombs. And I've seen Richard live several times in the 
1980s---even traveling to NYC to do so.  (Don't own his 
work for John Doe and a couple of other artists record's 
whose names I forget at the moment [(don't want to cheat 
by going to his rock family Tree on The Wonder :>) ], 
so I guess you can't call me a Lloyd Compleatist).

Leo

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From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com]On Behalf Of Rex
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:23 AM
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Subject: Re: (TV) Don't Want This To Get Personal / This Case Is Not
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I dunno if it's relevant, but there could be two meanings to one guitarist
playing the other's "part".

One: part as in "role":  during this section Tom plays the lead "part" and
Richard plays the rhythm "part".  Basically, Tom's playing some notes and RL
is playing some chords.  Almost doesn't matter which notes Tom's playing or
what voicings Richard's using as long as it's within the chord structure
(and even that might be debateable).  Thus: if Tom took the solo on "See No
Evil" he would be playing Richard's "part" but nobody would expect it to
sound like Richard's solo on the album.

Two: part as in "written riff or melody line", etc.  Meaning that Tom would
be specifically playing the notes originally or usually played by Richard
during that portion of the song, or vice versa.  Of course neither of them
ever plays anything exactly the same.  Some parts are more like riffs or
melodic figures, though, as on most of "Call Mr. Lee".  So if Richard played
"deedly - dee dee - deee" and Tom answered with " ba dow da dow dow dowwww",
they would be playing each other's parts (but both playing "lead" parts).
You can see how slippery this gets.  If Richard then played the first "solo"
it could sound different from Tom's without it being noticed; however,
Richard's playout solo is so genetically similar to his "written" leads on
the chorus that if Tom played it he would be obliged to not only play
Richard's "part/role" (lead guitar) but also to incorporate some of the
melodic content of Richard's "part/written riff/melody line".  And again,
the slipperiness of the roles is one of the reasons we love this band.

You know, I think I have some valid points here, but I feel like, as
written, it sounds like jibberish... oh, well.  Deedly dee dee deeee...

-Rex
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