We were talking on YouTube about the differences in the extended version of Gypsy that's on The Chain box set and the one from the video and I know we've talked about the differences before but in this video with the new cleaned up audio I noticed something interesting. I noticed it a long time ago, actually, but forgot all about it. If you listen really carefully to the video mix right after Stevie sings "Your bright eyes, I can't find you" you'll hear Lindsey's guitar fading in. It's very faint. But in the Chain mix the guitar starts cold on the beat, it doesn't fade in at all. I have to say the video mix will always be my favorite, even with the nice extended version on The Chain.
Here's another little Gypsy tidbit, I had a copy of Mirage on CD with a little booklet that had the lyrics and they had the background vocals printed in parenthesis. It shows (lightning strikes, maybe once maybe twice) and at the end it had (she was just a wish, she was just a wish) I remember back in the day wondering why they printed that because it wasn't in the song. So when The Chain came out I heard that background part for the first time and was so excited by it. I wonder if they had planned for a longer mix to go on the album originally.
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