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Old 11-24-2008, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr View Post
I love Mystified...
I do, too, & I feel it's absolutely essential to TANGO IN THE NIGHT because it carries through that five-tone theme we find throughout, which reminds us musical illiterates of Japan's shakuhachi, koto, or shamisen. I could no more think of TANGO without MYSTIFIED than I could RUMOURS without GOLD DUST WOMAN.

On the pentatonic subject, I always got a kick out of the way Rick Vito ended all performances of SEVEN WONDERS on the 1987 tour -- he codas a five-tone scale with suitably Oriental-sounding bends!
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