{"id":446,"date":"2005-09-07T01:55:05","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2005-09-07T01:55:05","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T01:55:05","slug":"bohemian-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian Rip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darn you Tracy Wong<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Ever since your MSN nick was “so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye<\/i>“, I Google<\/a>d it and found out which song that was. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody<\/i> has been playing in my head ever since, in my Winamp, on my guitar, and I’m losing sleep trying to convert the piano bits of the song to guitar. Am7dim5 baby! Uh… yeah. I reckon I can do an in-tune but not in-octave version with bass guitar only. Modern day multi-track sound recording software will give me the 84-voice choir needed.<\/p>\n

Heck, I haven’t fallen in love with lyrics in such a long time. Such pompous drama.<\/p>\n

The Bruce Dickinson cover version of the song is carried off full blast, and does justice because while Freddie Mercury was trying<\/b> to be camp, Bruce is naturally<\/b> camp around Beezelbub, being the vocalist for Iron Maiden.<\/p>\n

I think I have an obsession with songs over 5 minutes, to such an extent that I’d actually put paper in the printer and bother printing and then analysing the chord progressions and structure. Ask me now though, and I would not be able to play it in order. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Over 5 minutes:
\nRed Hot Chili Peppers – Californication, The Beatles – Hey Jude, Blur – Coffee And TV<\/p>\n

Over 6 minutes:
\nMetallica – Fade To Black, Black Sabbath – Fairies Wear Boots, Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb, The Eagles – Hotel California, Stevie Ray Vaughn – Little Wing<\/p>\n

Over 7 minutes:
\nMetallica – One, The White Stripes – Ball And Biscuit, New Order – Blue Monday, Pantera – Cemetary Gates<\/p>\n

Over 8 minutes:
\nLed Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven, Guns ‘N’ Roses – November Rain, Opeth – The Drapery Falls (their other stuff escapes me.), Jamiroquai – Funktion (one of their few bass tabs I bothered with.)<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, what tabs do I really print out that is under 5 minutes? Jimi Hendrix? Even then I didn’t list his 11:37 jam of Red House, live at the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n

It says something about me. I am long winded and draggy. Apparently, so are rockers or people with good taste. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darn you Tracy Wong! Ever since your MSN nick was “so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye“, I Googled it and found out which song that was. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody has been playing in my head ever since, in my Winamp, on my guitar, and I’m losing sleep trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}