Some enchanted evening.

[Ted O. Jackson]

> you didn't have the benefit of Compact Discs back in those days, which are
> the best to play by ear with...cassettes usually play a half-step lower than
> what the actual music is...but if you're the one doin' the cover, you can
> play it any way you wish...
>
> Agents is in Am...Buck plays it in a different key nowadays and uses a capo
> everytime he plays it...when asked why he uses the capo, Eric Bloom said "I
> think it has something to do with being in the key of B"...Bminor maybe?
>
> ROBO
Robo,
Buck Dharma using a capo!  Is nothing sacred?  I haven't seen BOC in
a couple of years.  Last time I did, he was doing Reaper in Am
without a capo.  I know why he does it, I think.  Must be to suit his
voice?  But all of Buck's songs are(were?) in Am.  This is a puzzle!
Also, why doesn't he use another gtr tuned up a step?  Probably make
the strings too tight and hard to bend.  The capo makes sense, 'cause
the chord forms wouldn't come off well using Barres, and that's what
you'd have to do.  Hard to play Reaper and make it sound good in open
Bm!

Thanks for the input.
ted