In 1979 One of the Best Guitar Solos Recorded Was Cut for Radio Time
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The Knack's 1979 hit 'My Sharona' had a guitar solo cut from its radio edit, a fact that sparked nostalgia and appreciation for the song's musicianship among commenters.
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The Knack's 1979 breakout hit My Sharona is remembered for spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, but that radio edit is woefully incomplete. Lead guitarist Berton Averre’s full-length My Sharona solo is absolutely transcendent. Which makes it all the more ridiculous that it was cut for time on the radio release.
When the tech came out, that allowed the tempo to be increased, without changing the pitch, a lot of songs suddenly got faster.
In radio, every second counts, and there will be a lot of fighting for tenths of a second. Sort of like top-shelf track and field athletes.
The prose in that story is a bit ... intense.
Their engineer ended up coming up with a technical approach we call ADT (Automatic double-tracking) to artificially duplicate and layer the vocals without requiring the artist(s) to re-record vocals.
She had an amazing voice, but she also stood out because of his technical nuancing of their sound.
Am I just pointing out the obvious joke that you made, thus making it unfunny?
These ads look like they were designed by young folks, that have no idea what it's like, being older. AI is making them even weirder.
All those times I'd listened to it on the radio... I knew it was missing something.
In fact the entire album is really awesome.
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