That would be drummer Joe Morello. The piece in question is “Unsquare Dance,” not “Take Five.” Wicked hard to keep time to unless you are used to weird time signatures. “Unsquare Dance” is in 7/4 time.
You’d be amazed how many times a day this line can get used (apparently, I drop or bump into quite a few items on a daily basis, and none of them go quietly).
Just the other night, I claimed to have written a rock and roll lyric that nets me millions a year because of its constant usage. When my tavern-mates asked, I did a Ramonesy “One, two! A-one, two, three, four!”
I wasn’t even considering the mistakes. There is one in “Like a Rolling Stone” and one in “Hard Rain.” I have a book on Dylan’s songs, All the Songs which list these lapses in the discussion of each song.
Then there is the unreleased except on bootleg “Cough Song” where he starts coughing during the final harmonica riff.
As everyone laughs Dylan says “That’s the end. It fades out.”
Tom Wilson, cracking up says “Thanks a lot. I’ll make a note here, fade at cough.”
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There’s an outtake of Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand” with a dog barking inn the background.
Thanks for doing the legwork on those clips. This is fascinating. Freddie’s exclamation “That’s OK!” fits into the song perfectly. Maybe they removed it from the remaster because he was slightly intruding on Bowie’s vocal?
This is amazing. Sometimes the typewriter comes in right on the beat, and it’s hilarious!
Does a movie soundtrack count? In the first line, someone sings “way” instead of “day.”
Pixies studio chatter before “Oh My Golly” (album cover with female toplessness shown at the link)
someone in the studio was surprised “Oh Comely” (Neutral Milk Hotel) was caught in one take (skip to the end, or don’t, because it’s an amazing song)
feedback at 1:58, Nirvana, "The Man Who Sold the World"
At the end of the song Ohio, by CSN, Crosby starts yelling things like Why? That wasn’t part of the song, but it fit in so well they left it in.
When I was young I thought that in “Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town” as sung by Kenny Rogers, when he speaks the words “God sakes turn around”, he was talking to a member of the audience that had their back turned to him, since it seemed like a casual outtake rather than an in-song plea.
“Fingertips Pt 2” by Little Stevie Wonder: As the song resumes after its fake ending, a musician (presumably thinking that they’re starting a new song) yells “What key?”
Eric Clapton has said numerous times that he’s not happy with the version of Crossroads included on Wheels of Fire, stating that there are better versions.
“At the end of the song, Jack Bruce announces, “Eric Clapton, please,” over Eric’s saying, “Thank you” (both said simultaneously). Eric follows up by saying (probably turning toward Jack), “Kerfuffle.” This is British English for “foul-up,” referring to the time disjoint back in mid-song.”
I can’t tell what the issue is because a it’s a brilliant classic!
Wasn’t that version cobbled together from various performances?
I believe that producer Tom Dowd reduced the length of the second guitar solo, resulting in a rhythmic glitch. It’s all from one performance at the Winterland. I’m also nearly certain that rather than it being Clapton saying “kerfuffle”, it’s Bruce saying “on vocal”.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s “Eric Clapton, lead [guitar]. And vocal.”, all said by the same guy. Clapton says “Thank you” underneath that.
I’ve always heard it as “on vocal.” And they cut the introduction to Toad on Wheels of Fire, which got restored on the version in the boxed set. I don’t think Crossroads got changed, but I’ll have to check.
There was an editing error in the outro of Let Me Roll It by Wings. When it was noticed, the engineer said he’d fix it but Paul liked it so much that not only did they leave it in, they did the little hiccup at the end when performing it live.
Actually, it is “Unsquare Dance” https://youtu.be/lbdEzRfbeH4
see Post 61.