Thank you to my veteran friends.

[nolawitch58]

Thanks for your service to your country, even when your government acted despicably and your citizens were clueless twerps.

The Goddess Rising Conference was wonderful. My lovely guests ran me ragged.

I'll be at the Faulkner Society Words & Music Conference a week from tomorrow. I'm trying to get Ruxandra finished before I go in case an agent or editor wants to see it. Consequently, I'm having to be something of a hermit and decline all invitiations that aren't business-related. If I don't piddle around today, I could finish a chapter, leaving me with one last chapter to finish over the weekend and three days to format and print the behemoth.

My music selection reminds me of something I heard recently. Can any of my musician friends verify that the Beatles deliberately mistuned their instruments? I can't imagine what purpose that would serve and I don't remember if it was for concerts or recording as I think I heard it at a cocktail party.

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[happydog.livejournal.com]

The Beatles did occasionally detune, most particularly on "Helter Skelter," where the 1st string E is deliberately flattened. The intro to the song is the open, partially flat E string played at the same time as the B string, fretted at the 5th fret, which is also E. The dissonance is what you hear throughout. "You Know My Name, Look Up The Number," the Beatles' classic pisstake/b-side, also has some badly tuned instruments on it. Other than that they did some weird stuff (re-recording horn sections through distorted guitar amps: "Got To Get You Into My Life") (oh yeah, and all of Revolution #9) but not necessarily mis-tuning.