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[[Reaching For The Uncommon Chord]], p. 78. | [[Reaching For The Uncommon Chord]], p. 78. | ||
== "THE UNMERRY-GO-ROUND".== | == "THE UNMERRY-GO-ROUND".== | ||
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[[Reaching For The Uncommon Chord]], p 100-101. | [[Reaching For The Uncommon Chord]], p 100-101. | ||
==[[Mike Pachelli Show (video transcript 1991)]]== | |||
MP: There’s some amazing tunes on there, I always thought that if Metal Fatigue if it got airplay it could have been a great FM crossover hit. There was Devil Take the Hindmost, all I can say about that is “whew!” and then the tune I was REALLY interested in is The Un-Merry-Go-Round. Where’d that come from? | |||
AH: Well it’s kind of a… basically I wrote that for my Dad, you know, because my Dad died during that year that I was doing the album. He used to have all these… he was a really great artist, he used to draw this merry go round with all these famous English politicians on it, like you’d have Ronald Reagan and all these guys on it, and he’d have them with their slogans, and he used to call it the UN Merry go round, so I got the title from him. | |||
MP: The solo in there, which by the way is Phil Keaggy’s all-time favorite electric guitar solo, the soprano – which is quite a compliment in itself – the soprano sax solo that you sort of do – how, where’s that coming from, I mean what’s the inspiration, it sounds nearly exactly like a soprano! | |||
AH: (laughs) For a period of time I guess I was – I go through these periods that change and I was really trying to get like that soprano kind of tone. I guess that was about as close I got. I couldn’t get any closer so I gave up, started on something else. | |||
