Flubbed Note in Man of Mystery

[Fenderman]

If I remember correctly, Hank plays a slightly wrong note near the end of Razzmatazz (Shadow Music version). I'll need to play it again to verify that though.

[Paul Childs]

I heard that when Blue Star was being recorded, the very young Bruce didn't know what a 'diminished' chord was and had to be shown. Any truth in that?

Unlikely, since there is a diminished chord in Chinchilla. perhaps it was Chinchilla Bruce was thinking back to.

JN

Bruce has admitted more recently that he doesn't know the names of a lot of chords that are not the main ones.
It was on a video not long back (I think it was posted on this website) where he shows how he plays certain chords.
I haven't been able to find it again online since.

[cockroach]

Isn't it on a clip of Bruce backstage somewhere talking and jamming with Tommy Emmanuel?

Didn't Bruce also say that he travelled the world only knowing four chords (but in any key)... or something similar- wasn't that quote in his book?

[Martin Page]

Isn't it on a clip of Bruce backstage somewhere talking and jamming with Tommy Emmanuel?

Didn't Bruce also say that he travelled the world only knowing four chords (but in any key)... or something similar- wasn't that quote in his book?

It may have been that interview with Lee Hodgson in an online music magazine. I remember Bruce demoing that unusual open D chord, where he bars at the second fret and uses just two fingers rather than the more conventional three-fingered way...

Martin.

[Dance with Shadows]

Martin you are definitely correct. It occurs in the interview with Lee Hodgson. Some of the chords Bruce plays in that interview are far from basic. Lee has trouble naming some of them.

I find the thread here very interesting and not at all disrespectful --it shows that we have listened to the tracks over and over again.

And more to the point some of the 'mistakes' are true gems! Fret noise is usually something that guitarists wish to avoid. To my tastes Geronimo is clearly enhanced by such noise towards the end of the song.

MIchael

[Fenderman]

Something I've noticed is when Bruce plays acoustic he somehow manages to avoid the squeak you get when changing chords, I have no idea how he does it. Hank also manages to avoid it to.

[JimN]

Something I've noticed is when Bruce plays acoustic he somehow manages to avoid the squeak you get when changing chords, I have no idea how he does it. Hank also manages to avoid it to.

I know how he does that, having seen him play at close quarters!

[GoldenStreet]

Fret noise is usually something that guitarists wish to avoid. To my tastes Geronimo is clearly enhanced by such noise towards the end of the song.

There is also some pretty impressive fret noise/buzzing in Hank's opening Bass VI solo on Thunderbirds Theme!

Bill