Some enchanted evening.

[Rich Hamel]

> > 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!
>

I may be wrong, but I believe all of the live versions (SEE, ETL, and OYF)
are in Bm. I say this because I used to regularly play bass to the various
BOC albums and always was playing A when playing the Reaper from AOF and
B from the live albums. You could say that the album was just sped up, but I
didn't have to change the way I played any other songs on the live
albums. Maybe Buck has an easier time singing it in Bm live? Hmmm....

                                                        Rich



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