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From: tom{at}aerovons.com
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Subject: Re: Cheesy Strings
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appeyroad{at}yahoo.com wrote:
> Wondering...
>
> With all the clamour over Phil's stringy overdubs on, for say, Long
and
> Winding Road, no protest over the strings on Something, for example?
>
> Is there a boot or an otherwise recording of Something without the
> dreary strings?
>
> Much oblidged....
>
> --
>
One really limits themselves to a small group of accepted instruments
if no pretty songs can have strings. Silly. They elevate that song and
give it class it just wouldn't have without their prescence. I'm an
arranger and composer, so yes I'm prejudice, because I work with them
constantly. Strings are such an integral part of the orchestra that
when you hear people slam them, you just wonder what they've been
listening to all their lives. No offense meant, it's just plain odd to
me to single out a section of the orchestral arsenal for slamming. Of
course there will always be people I suppose, who are looking for an
all guitar version of "Walk Away Renee." ;) Or maybe the theme from
"Psycho" done with Les Pauls and Marshall stacks.

To me the string arrangement in "Something" is gorgeous.

I think of strings as just like guitars, or drums, or bass. They are
just another instrument, not an intruder that broke into the session.
To me, "Long and Winding" sounds like a band in an empty bar after the
crowd's gone home without them.



TH

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