![]() a phantom smell so strong, and undeniable to my sense memory. Whispered to me like a the ghost of a summer breeze in october catching my ear. It doesn't happen to me with every song but some lines just stick like gum on the sole of a pair of my kicks.įor whatever reason far too deep in my subconscious to excise, these four lines from bruce springsteen's 1987 classic, 'tunnel of love' return to my thoughts-out of the blue-time and again to my mind. Maryann from Outer Banks North Carolinalines from song lyrics will imprint themselves on my emotional mind's memory.The emotional power of her voice gives an eerie intensity to the only protest song the Stones wrote about Vietnam and societal upheaval of the 1960s. A huge part is because Merry Clayton's haunting backing vocals. ![]() Gimme Shelter is hands down my favorite Rolling Stones song. Maryann from Outer Banks North CarolinaYdur from Knoxville.Then I went to writing one of my one-note-with-a-rhythm, bouncing harmonic thing under the singing, and came up with a solo that he wanted to use, which I was honored by and still love playing that live." We just kept plugging in foot pedals and choruses and flangers and messing around with the sound, and we got a couple of different takes that felt great under his instruction. I asked him what key we were in and he said C, so I just started picking out some hammered notes - something I usually don't do in my style - to take what I do and put a little different slant on it, because the song is a little out of the normal box. I threw a couple of foot pedals on the ground, since he said on the phone he was looking for something a little unusual. I was shocked at the song: It was so different sounding and radical and beautiful, and just out of the box - in my eyes - from what Bruce normally did. So we went to a little barn on his guest house where he had a makeshift studio. He'd been messing with the solo, but he thought I could take a shot at it. Bruce called and said he was working on a solo record, and he said he had this title track. ![]() ![]() "I was on the road, in and out of Jersey. Nils Lofgren didn't know he'd be put to work when he was passing through New Jersey and called Springsteen to say hi, but he ended up recording the guitar solo on "Tunnel Of Love." Springsteen told Lofgren he had a track underway and suggested he came by and take a poke at it. ![]()
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