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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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3. Weren't Taking That Video...

Reply to The Madcap (Original post)

Sat Jun 21, 2025, 02:24 PM

Jun 21

...very seriously, we're they.
Guy playing a flute, when it was obviously a metronome.
Then playing a soprano sax during the flute solo, and most of the rest of the song when we never hear that instrument.
The keyboard player using a Hammond when what we hear are strings.
I'm thinking this was a middle finger to the record company.

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Weren't Taking That Video... ProfessorGAC Jun 21 #3

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