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[Pyrrho]

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[Doctor X]

What ever happened?

He jumped the shark when he appeared on Highlander and let the song be used in a Not Actually 24 Days Later but Filmed in North England Like You Give a Fuck but Malcolm McDowell Needed to Make a Car Payment So He's Here . . . for a Bit.

In the rain.

– J.D.

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[Hotarubi]

"Nice!"

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"Nice!"

You're showing your age! The original was by Charlie McCoy and called "Stone Fox Chase." :)

[Hotarubi]

"Nice!"

You're showing your age! The original was by Charlie McCoy and called "Stone Fox Chase." :)

Always thought Area Code 615 was the Japanese original. There ya go.

I only remember Bob Harris from much later repeats and the Fast Show parody.

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Charlie McCoy played with Area Code 615, so you're correct. He was the harmonica player and composed the song.

[Hotarubi]

I once met Bono. He's 4' 3".

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Charlie McCoy played with Area Code 615, so you're correct. He was the harmonica player and composed the song.

I just watched a YouTube tutorial on how to play it. You need at least four harmonicas* because the song keeps changing key, and almost all the notes are 'draw': that is, the player has to suck, not blow.

*I suppose you could play it on one chromatic harmonica, if you were skilled enough, but Charlie played it on regular diatonic mouth organs.

Area Code 615 was a group formed of individual session musicians, who all lived in the same (phone) area code. The dialling code was, you guessed it, 615.

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It's a bastard to play because of the key changes, (it's a bastard to play anyway!) You couldn't really do it on a chromatic: you can't "bend" the draw notes, (or bend the upper register notes by over-blowing), to get that bluesy sound.

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It works a little like this...

[Hotarubi]

"Tune? ....this is Jazz!"

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Charlie McCoy played with Area Code 615, so you're correct. He was the harmonica player and composed the song.

I just watched a YouTube tutorial on how to play it. You need at least four harmonicas* because the song keeps changing key, and almost all the notes are 'draw': that is, the player has to suck, not blow.

*I suppose you could play it on one chromatic harmonica, if you were skilled enough, but Charlie played it on regular diatonic mouth organs.

Area Code 615 was a group formed of individual session musicians, who all lived in the same (phone) area code. The dialling code was, you guessed it, 615.

Chromatics, of course, have their place. Have a listen to Brendan Power...

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They're playing my song...

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[Hotarubi]

Hard to fathom how such a badly recorded, badly produced track got released at all.

Non-interesting factoid #471. Chas Jankel's sister and early music video pioneer Annabel, was a co-creator of Max Headroom.

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Quite a fascinating, gifted man, though. As I recall, he had a huge cult following back in the day.

[Doctor X]

– J.D.

[Doctor X]

– J.D.

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This song hit No2 in the UK charts for The Stranglers in 1982, their highest ever hit. All the DJs raved about it thinking it was about NBLs. Things changed a bit when they discovered it was about heroin. :D

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I can't say I was ever a Sex Pistols fan but this made me grin.

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This one's for Doctor X.

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Interesting fusion of East and West, old and new:

Tinna Tinh is a Vietnamese singer and actress of Czech and Vietnamese descent.



The visuals in this video are pretty stunning. Recommend full screen.

[Pyrrho]

WARNING: Flashing lights, loud music.

[Doctor X]

Mullets!

Still . . . Eleven approves.

– J.D.

P.S. Nancy prefers: