What sounds 'right' to you may not be how it was done in the studio..

Rocker

Recently I listened to a busker playing 'There She Goes' by the LAs.  He sounded close enough to what I remembered it from hearing infrequent playings on the radio, but something sounded wrong, so I looked it up on the internet.  And sure enough he played it as the videos of 'How to play...' videos showed.  Yet when I tried to play it in that style, it sounded all wrong too.  I expect that the LAs used reverb or delays on their guitars and the online videos did not so is it absolutely necessary to play everything exactly as on the record?  To these tired old ears, sometimes the wrong way of playing something sounds more right than the right way.  Assuming the online videos are right in the first place.

bobblehat

If its played in a different key from the record then it will sound wrong.

I think the original la's number is played in D and extremely tricky to sing.

I always insist on playing covers in the original keys as I find they just don't sound right no matter how you play them.

EricTheWeary

Often interesting to use YouTube to see how the original artist did it live, certainly if I'm covering a song I'd rather use a live version as a reference as I can't recreate the 27 guitar parts they had on the recording and neither can they.
Now I can get Absolute Radio in the car that Las song is on about once an hour so I shall have to listen properly next time.

viz

bobblehat said:

If its played in a different key from the record then it will sound wrong.

I think the original la's number is played in D and extremely tricky to sing.

I always insist on playing covers in the original keys as I find they just don't sound right no matter how you play them.

Argh yes like Hotel California in Am - yuk!!

Rocker

That song is in the key of D. The various videos on YT are also in D. To my ears it only sounds right if I play each 'note' in thirds. Single strings sound wrong to me. I never saw the LAs play it so my effort is a pure guess and probably wrong. Just sounds right though.

stickyfiddle

The original is a 12-string, isn't it? That'll be a large part of why it sounds different played on single notes compared with the record.

ICBM

Nothing ever sounds right if I try to play it like the record, so I don't...