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And entirely due to that, I always quite liked them.
Example: Girls on Film. The main high vocal part to the chorus is "off" in the traditional sense but if pitched 'perfectly', it becomes polite, dull and doesn't sit with the keyboard parts that underpin it in the same way. Its a deliberate thing.
Don't forget, Le Bon is a classically trained chorister (who before puberty actually recorded as a soloist).
I didn't get DD 'in period'... but now, I have a massive respect for how clever the music actually is/was.
His constant smile and hair put me off more to be fair.
I certainly agree it's a part of why Le Bon's vocals are so distinctive, and I wouldn't want to hear the records any other way.
Maybe it's been staring me in the face for forty years... as he said himself, "Straddle the line, in discord and rhyme".
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I absolutely loathe the slide part in Layla - its so horribly out of tune, the guitarist (Duane Allman) obviously didn't bother to tune his guitar - so for me it ends there.
Unlike Hendrix - who, when he was out of tune, at least had the excuse that his tremolo drifted out of tune. Hendrix was obviously someone who refused to accept the limitations of his instrument. Poetically speaking, that was 'heroic'...
Yet I struggle to keep listening when he's out of tune.
Also on reflection - had he been a surgeon, accountant etc and adopted the same approach to his work. he would have lost his professional registration and license to practice very quickly indeed.
R.
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