Some enchanted evening.

[Dan Lindfors]

>> 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
>

But even the version on Live 1976 is in Bm, and I believe it has always been
that way live. But why the use of capo? There's no one visible in 1976. Is
it just because he does not want to change to another (tuned up) guitar
(which he apparently did back then)?

Dan