Really enjoyed reading this article about one of my favorite all-time songs, Wichita Lineman.
https://www.musicradar.com/news/gle...-4432-B979-C2261639F648&utm_source=SmartBrief
One night, in my last job, I had been working OT to finish a project and got it wrapped up at 6:30 PM (which is very late for a Civil Servant). I shut things down and headed for the stairwell to go home; that particular stairwell had closed doors at the top and bottom, but an extremely high ceiling with a beautiful natural reverb. I started singing "I am a lineman for the Countyyyyy..." as I walked down, kept singing as I entered the bottom hall, and noticed the main Conference room lights were still on, but dead-quiet. I reached in to turn those lights out, and the room was packed (on-base emergency I wasn't aware of), someone yelled, "Oh, it was Botch!" and the whole room erupted in applause; I was SOO embarrassed! Thanks, Jimmy Webb!
EDIT: I'd always understood that the simple guitar solo was done on a tenor guitar, with a very distinctive tone; but the above article said he played it on Carole Kay's bass (the instrumental in the first video in the article falls flat without that distinctive guitar/bass tone, for sure).
https://www.musicradar.com/news/gle...-4432-B979-C2261639F648&utm_source=SmartBrief
One night, in my last job, I had been working OT to finish a project and got it wrapped up at 6:30 PM (which is very late for a Civil Servant). I shut things down and headed for the stairwell to go home; that particular stairwell had closed doors at the top and bottom, but an extremely high ceiling with a beautiful natural reverb. I started singing "I am a lineman for the Countyyyyy..." as I walked down, kept singing as I entered the bottom hall, and noticed the main Conference room lights were still on, but dead-quiet. I reached in to turn those lights out, and the room was packed (on-base emergency I wasn't aware of), someone yelled, "Oh, it was Botch!" and the whole room erupted in applause; I was SOO embarrassed! Thanks, Jimmy Webb!
EDIT: I'd always understood that the simple guitar solo was done on a tenor guitar, with a very distinctive tone; but the above article said he played it on Carole Kay's bass (the instrumental in the first video in the article falls flat without that distinctive guitar/bass tone, for sure).
