Going to college in the '70s and having a roommate who was a recording engineer made me much more aware of musical details than I might otherwise have been. That continues to be a blessing and a curse.
I keep the volume down. Protecting my hearing.
I’m sure there are details in Rock that I miss. Rock is intended to be cranked up.
I know what you’re talking about, now that I stopped to think and play it back in my head, but I can’t say that it’s ever bothered me or stuck out in any way.
Though, having gone back and listening, it wasn’t there in Season 1, and is replaced with bells in Season 3, so it’s only present on Season 1. I wonder how many people even noticed there were three different themes.
Then again, since it’s not something I consistently noticed, I wonder if they cheated the titles and used the same one in some TV versions.
Heavy use of cannabis and LSD during the 70s and 80s has made me a MUSIC MONSTER. I hear everything from Mozart, Schumann, Bruckner, and Mahler through the Grateful Dead more than ANYONE ELSE DOES.
Sometime it makes me mad.
Back in my late teens, I sat down to watch ST:TOS for the millionth time; the teaser ends and my brother grabs a chair as the theme starts. I say over my shoulder, Don’t those bongos drive you nuts?
What are you talking about? he says, I don’t hear any bongos.
Watch my hands, I say, and “air-bongo” at the proper place.
His eyes get big, his mouth drops open, a look of horror on his face. I can never un-hear that, now, you SOB, he hisses.
It was great.
Here 'tis:
Sometimes, when I mention a little tiny bit I love in a song, people don’t get it.
In American Pie, when Don McLean sings “Eight miles high and falling fasssssssssst…” there is a little pause before he sings “it landed foul on the grass.” Makes me think of the second the thing lands and I heat a SPLAT.