Please come pat me on the head
I just want to find out what you're nice to me for
I used to be super-obsessed with this one particular guitar solo in a Dinosaur Jr. song. They were my favorite band & I had all of their tapes but there was this one guitar solo that really got me. I used to play it, rewind it, play it, rewind it, over & over endlessly so I could hear it again & again & again. One day I recorded it on to a blank tape several times in a row, like twelve times or something, so I wouldn't have to keep rewinding so much. I played it for my best friend Helen. Helen was the drummer in this Satanic speed-metal band but she could get into Dino Jr. too. I remember so clearly the way she looked at me & how flatly she said:
You've ruined it.
I bring this up because I haven't felt that way about one part of one song since then. I think it was partly because what Helen said turned out to be true, & partly because I'm not nearly as geeky about music as I was then. In a way I am more geeky because I never know what is going on with anything anymore, but in a way I am less geeky, for the exact same reason. Anyway, now I'm obsessed with one particular part of one particular song again. I am not ruining it this time, but I am obsessed with it. It's in that song I Luv the Valley Oh, all of which is amazing, but specifically it's the part where he says "Je t'aime the valley OH!" & the scream at the OH! is the best scream you've ever ever heard.
Tho J Mascis had some really amazing ones too.
& that is all.
