When you were a kid and listened to a song, what did you get totally wrong about it?

Yeah, it's amazing how similar Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton sound singing alternate lines on that song.

 

I thought they were black too and always thought it was tongue in cheek/mocking. I had heard black people refer to "white boys" in a mocking tone (directed at me at times - I am not the guy in my Avatar) but had never heard a white person use that expression.

 

I can't get it out of my head that some guitars should be lead and some made for rhythm - I don't know where that comes from. A les Paul for example should never play a clean rhythm and a Rick should never be a lead instrument, makes no sense. Keith Richards has a quote about the 2 guitar players in his band being guitar players, not necessarily lead and rhythm players. He says you don't walk into a music store a buy a lead guitar or a rhythm guitar...a guitar is a guitar

 

What do you know. I finally found it. And after four long years.



(Just found a new CD on ebay and bought it)

 

I didn't know that one of the guitars on a band was a BASS guitar or what function it served, until a friend of mine (who played guitar) explained it to me.

 

I have that exact same memory!

It seemed like the song would go on forever and ever, and get weirder and weirder. I always fell asleep to it, and I thought it played all night long.

I used to listen to KHJ AM when I was a kid, and they always played it at night. Nights In White Satin, too. I thought that one was spooky also, and about 5 hours long. That one grew to be one of my favourite songs.

 

Speaking of Cream, in "White Room" I always thought they were calling someone a "dickhead" instead of "platform ticket."

 

I used to think a woman sang "Jackie Blue" by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. I pictured her really pretty, too.

 

"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." I thought it was about a girl named Lucy who was in the sky with diamonds.

 

There were a lot of songs that were blatantly about sex and/or drugs that I didn't quite pick up on.

 

When I was about 11 in the late 60s there was a hit song called "The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" by O.C. Smith. It wasn't until a couple years ago that I realized it was about a female prostitute...always thought it was about a male tramp who was the singer's father!

 

When I first heard "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac back in the 70's, I did not know Christine and Lindsey were trading vocal lines in that song until I saw them performing it in a live show.

 

I thought that in addition to hosting Soul Train, Don Cornelius was a member of the Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, never mind that the vocals were tenor rather than bass.

 

As an eight-year-old, I thought it was "Eight Days A Week / is not enough to show and tell!"

 

Until fairly recently I thought the lead vocal The Edwin Hawkins Singers' "Oh Happy Day" was
sung by Edwin Hawkins.

 

That music is serious stuff and only fully appreciated through +10K systems in socially inept man caves.

 

As an adult, I re-listened to "Maryanne with the Shaky Hand" and went "ooohhh..."

 

When I was about 12,13 I didn't know about multi-tracked vocals. I remember being blown away, saying, "He's harmonizing with himself!!"


I also used to think that Foreigner's "Urgent" was about anal sex.

"How urgent/ butt love can be. It's urgent".

I was probably 9.


Oh yeah, and "That Smell" by Lynyrd Skynard was about farts.

 

You mean it's NOT??!!!

 

At one point, I thought Paul McCartney sang all the Beatles songs, except Lady Madonna, which John sang. Then I got that Roy Carr and Tony Tyler book and they clued me in...

 

Uh...you were right.

 

That's nothing. I thought that last line was --

" Then I told you 'bout our kid / Now he's married to NATO!"

 

When the Stills Young song Long May You Run came out I was convinced Neil Young wrote it about his lasting friendship with Stephen Stills.
I had no idea it was about his old car until many years later.

 

I thought it was "dull surprise" too. What the hell would that mean? Who would want a "dull surprise?"

 

Dare I even mention "Nothin' to Lose" by KISS?