ACDC BAG :PHISH ARE BIGOTS?
Wahfuzz
The guitar chords for the chorus of ACDC Bag are as follows:
A C D C ( - So far very cute) F A G !?!?!? I think if they were gonna
name a song after the chords they should have strayed away from this one.
Also puting in a B instead of an F doesn't sound too horrible.
But who am I to critisize Phish?
Eric Angel
You know musicians should not limit themselves to a seven tone octave
because they can only make songs with seven different letters. Phish
should create all new instruments with *26* tones per octave, that way
they can make songs that match ALL the letters in the title ;)
Eric Angel
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>wah...@aol.com (Wahfuzz) writes:
>
>The guitar chords for the chorus of ACDC Bag are as follows:
>A C D C ( - So far very cute) F A G !?!?!? I think if they were
>gonna name a song after the chords they should have strayed away from
>this one.Also puting in a B instead of an F doesn't sound too
Bo Elder
> But who am I to critisize Phish?
Bingo!
We are mere mortals. They, however, sold there souls (my current theory)
sometime between the years of 1985 and 1988...
<grins>
Bo
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"Thank you, Trey!"
CBertolet
okay, a little online experimentation here...
I just played the B instead of the F, just to check. It sounds god-awful.
I wonder if we can dig a little deeper here, just for fun. I've heard the
term "AC/DC" used to describe bi-sexuals before, sorta like "switch
hitter." The accountant could be a compulsive masturbator, like most
accountants are anyway, and thus the name Mr. "Palm"er. The rest of the
lyrics seem to have sexual over/undertones as well... "I'll show you mine
if you show me yours/I'm breathing hard/open the door..." Could be
something, who knows.
I wonder if the rest of Gamehenge has as many hidden meaning games as this
tune does...
"This isn't who it would be if it wasn't who it is..."
Chris.
Marcus Pearson
In article <boelder-2405...@kip182.austin.apple.com>, boe...@io.com (Bo Elder) writes:
|> In article <4o48m1$6...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, wah...@aol.com (Wahfuzz) wrote:
|>
|> > But who am I to critisize Phish?
|>
|> Bingo!
|>
|> We are mere mortals. They, however, sold there souls (my current theory)
|> sometime between the years of 1985 and 1988...
|>
|> <grins>
|> Bo
|>
I don't think they actually sold their souls until 1993, before that they were probably just pretty chummy with Big Red.
Brian Hedden
Wahfuzz wrote:
>
> The guitar chords for the chorus of ACDC Bag are as follows:
> A C D C ( - So far very cute) F A G !?!?!? I think if they were gonna
> name a song after the chords they should have strayed away from this one.
> Also puting in a B instead of an F doesn't sound too horrible.
>
Ya know something? This could very well be the greatest musical discovery
since...oh...Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. Gee...I'm gonna have to go
through every chord from every Phish song just to see if I can come up
with something else!
;)
Christopher Dowd
I don't think Phish had any hidden motives here. If you
put the B chord in instead of an F it does sound horrible.
The F chord fits very nicely into the key signature and
the mode.
a0...@lehigh.edu
In article <4o7v2e$f...@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>, Christopher Dowd <cd...@ix.netco
That doesn't help your case at all! Just because the F sounds better than the
B doesn't even come close to suggesting that they didn't do it intentionally.
I actually think it's pretty clever to title it AC/DC BAG but have the F in
there.
Peace,
Mike
Michael Eckmann a0...@lehigh.edu
Jonathan Pounder
wah...@aol.com (Wahfuzz) wrote:
>
> The guitar chords for the chorus of ACDC Bag are as follows:
> A C D C ( - So far very cute) F A G !?!?!? I think if they were gonna
> name a song after the chords they should have strayed away from this one.
> Also puting in a B instead of an F doesn't sound too horrible.
>
> But who am I to critisize Phish?
I am not flaming you but why just because chords to a song are an F
an A and a G in that particular order make phish bigots? There are
probably other songs in the world that have that chord progression
and the writers are not bigots.
Also, I might be wrong but the ACDC Bag was a part of Gamehenge
before the music was written. Trey or whoever writting the song
probably decided to spell out the name of the song with the chords
after it was written. The band members of Phish being the musical
geniuses that they are probably thought an F sounded musically better
than a B and probably thought it wouldn't be a big deal just because
part of the chorus has F-A-G.
Jon
Tyler Hargreaves
To any and all who are following this thread and have some musical
knowledge...I sucked this off here quite some time ago and thought you
might find it interesting. I did not write this.
T
Article #124350 (124892 is last):
From: Tom Kennedy <tken...@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: AC/DC Bag chords -- Reprise
Date: Mon Dec 11 16:08:37 1995
There was a few posts a couple weeks ago about the chord changes to
AC/DC Bag . . . the consensus seemed to be that the chords went like
this: A > C > D > C > F > A > G
and what was supposed to be so cool about that was how close it was to
the name of the song. Well, I was just thinking, what about a TRITONE
SUBSTITUTION for that F chord? For those of you who aren't familiar with
tritone substitutions, it is an interval of an augmented fourth, so from
an F it would be a B. OK, now take an F dominant chord, F-A-C-Eb(same as
D#), and substitue a B dominant chord, B-D#(same as Eb)-F#-A. Notice
that the third and seventh of the two chords are the same, the A and the
D#/Eb. The third and the seventh of any chord are what give it it's
texture, and tritone substitutions are commonplace in jazz. So, my point
is: either 1) whoever figured out the above chord progression confused
the F chord with a B chord, which would spell out the name of the tune,
or 2) Trey and Page play an F chord, but Mike plays a B on the root, or
Trey and Page play a B chord, with Mike playing an F on the root. Or,
Page and Trey could be playing different chords from each other. Anyway,
just a revelation I had last night while trying to fall asleep.
Comments are welcome, and encouraged, because I'd like to see what other
people -- especially educated guitarists -- have to say about this.
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I don't think so.