RE: [Harp-L] SBII Keep It To Ourselves Question

[Tom Ball <havaball@xxxxxxx>]

Bill Hines writes:
I was just listening to this unbelievable cd again and had a 
question.  Twice on the CD he makes an odd sound, I don't think it's 
the harp but with SBWII you never know. It could be some funky 
bend/compression thing. The first one is at 1:18 of "I Can't 
Understand" and the second time (more subtle) is at 1:34 of "When the 
Lights Went Out". Anyone know what that is? A vocal effect I think. 
Maybe a belch, haha.
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Hi Bill,
You're right -- it's a vocal effect, not the harp.  He's just 
muttering a vocal phrase (like "uhhh") in both cases (albeit more 
pronounced on "Can't Understand.")
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I also think it's interesting when on the first track (The Sky Is 
Crying) at 1:25 when he coughs up some phlegm and tries to clear his 
throat and keeps singing through it, pretty gross but it's real, what 
can you say. Lends itself to the "sonny boy in your living room" 
aura. Some of what maybe Robbie Robertson of the band describes in 
The Last Waltz when he talks about their chance meeting with SBWII 
one night, and he was playing and spitting  in a can and they 
realized it was blood.
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At that spot (actually 1:27 of track 1 on my CD copy,) there is a 
noise there, but I'm not altogether convinced it's a cough... it 
certainly *could* be a cough -- to my ear maybe 60% chance -- but it 
also sounds almost as likely that SB (or Murphy) might've bumped into 
a mic...(?)  In any case it's directly on the beat, meaning SB (or 
Murph) was rhythmically correct even when in error! <g>

Good ear, man.  GREAT CD, too, underrated and relatively underappreciated...

cheers and happy harpin',

Tom Ball
Santa Babs