The sampled guitar on CBC is the worst for me, all these "world class" musicians and none of them can play it?
And *such* a hard part to play ...
I guess it's a thing that Mark did a lot : parts he played on the record and he doesn't want anybody else to play it live. A kind of ego issue imo. You know something like "I play this part, and noone else"
on many many songs, the "logic" would be one musciian playing one part and another playing another one, but almost all the time Mark play some of a part and some of another part.The best example is Romeo : the "logic" would be that he would play the National guitar part during the whole song, and another guyitarist would play the solo, but of course he want to play both.
examples :
- almost all ryhtm/riff parts in 77-79. the only one David was "allowed" to play was WWE, because they couldn't do differently
- Romeo : switching guitars to be able to play bith parts, but "technically" not necessarily as the outro could be played by the other guitarist
- in so far away : live, he wants to play both rhythm intro and lead riff, while they are 2 distinctly different parts in studio version. the "logic" would be that the 2nd guitarist would play the intro and then Mark would join in for the lead theme (it was done this way on the 2nd part of the song in Sydney 86), but now Mark play the intro and then the lead. Kind of "I am the chief" let me play all...
- the rhythm part on this is us : it's clearly missing on the live version, and Richard's acoustic doesn't fill the space
- there are others but doesn't come to mind right now...
(rare) exceptions (because they couldn't do differently) :
- lead part on love over gold played by Hal Lindes in 82-83
- end solo on Romeo played by Richard once at Boothbay
- Richard playing some "shy" licks on 1st part of Telegraph road since 2008
- lead licks by Richard on 5:15 am
- slide played by Richard on skydiver
