Weight of Solomon, any ideas

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Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Post: # 18702Post KLUE »

Sounds like 'lapped up slup lika midda con din, tha dida come home'

Slipbase says 'You lapped up slop like a middle condit.
as identical mole?????'
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'left that stuf like a ???
dinner???'


I think it's wrapped up tight like amiddle ????? that didn't come home.

Anyone else care to take a stab?
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Post: # 18703Post Cleantone »

I'll have to check some of the newer version when I can.

I think it varies some too something like...

your wrapped up snug like a ?? that didn't come home

sometimes it sounds more like "wrapped up tucked" than snug.

?? could be "medical" something or "metal" something, or "little" something. I am not really sure.

That line used to be different in 1996 and the 1st half of 1997
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Post: # 21422Post lucasdavidsamuels »

could somebody post a really killer early version of solomon from 96 or 97
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Post: # 21467Post booher »

To the best of my knowledge the line goes something along the lines of "you're wrapped up tight like a little cadenza that didn't get home."

here's what a cadenza is according to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadenza

but maybe it's not "get home," if that's the case.
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Post: # 21671Post booher »

Anyone have the chords/tab for the new version of this song they've been playing live? Any guesses? I feel like it's pretty simple but I can't quite get it.
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Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Post: # 23653Post booher »

So I found this online while searching for Solomon tabs and whatnot. It's the sax solo transcribed (loosely). It's written in F, so it's ready for any C instrument you got.

http://ogbak.blogspot.com/2009/09/slip- ... -solo.html
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Post: # 23654Post Big Bob »

cool. nice find.
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Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Post: # 23670Post capomatrice »

booher wrote: It's the sax solo transcribed (loosely).
what exactly do you mean by loosely?
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Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Post: # 23671Post booher »

On the page, he said it was his best guess at transcribing it. So I can imagine the rhythm, if played straight, might be a little off.
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I think his point about the rhythm was that Timo's off on the recording. The notes all look right to me.
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Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Post: # 23720Post capomatrice »

oh alright. i was just asking since that's my transcription. i don't know if you guys saw or not but we have a youtube channel with some slip solos and stuff if you're interested (http://www.youtube.com/user/debobak#p/u/30/SEuUoq-Cinc for example).

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Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Post: # 23849Post booher »

Well, I'm giddy like a child. And a bit shameful. What can I say? Brad, if you're reading this, I meant what I said, as in "I'm your harshest critic (haha), and your biggest fan." Even if the biggest fan part might not be true, it's true to me. Thanks so much for doing this for me, and the rest of The Slip/BBros community :)

Here's the turn around from the song, where they've been playing it in D:

D - F#7 - Bmin7 - D7/A - G - G#dmin - F#min11 - B7 - Emin7 - C7

That starts from the lyric "and your sorrows...."

So, as the fateful napkin reads:

I - III7 - vi - I7/V - IV - #IVdmin - iii(min11) - V7 - iimin7 - VII7 (these last three chords are filling out the rest from theory nerdery).

Brad said it was a common "Gospel" type progression. I'll have to look into this, as I'm not quite as familiar.

Hopefully this enlightens us all.
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Post: # 24142Post Cleantone »

maybe this - "You're wrapped up and taught like a little cadenza that didn't get home"
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on the Emin7, they have been doing kind of a chromatic run upwards. you can keep the Emin shape loosely and hit the F#, G, then switch to that G# chord, and so on...
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Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Post: # 24556Post booher »

johnhk4 wrote:on the Emin7, they have been doing kind of a chromatic run upwards. you can keep the Emin shape loosely and hit the F#, G, then switch to that G# chord, and so on...
You mean the D triad? Like this? xx978x?

I like to call that the third inversion...it's really just a fragment of the open C chord. But yeah, they hit that at E minor for a G, then down a whole step to F, then down to the D position, then back up to F, to G, back to D. It's basically a blues type major progression of I IIIb IV.

Unless you mean something else...
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