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Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:21 pm
by 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?????'
+
'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?
-B-

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:22 pm
by 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
if you need guidance
or maybe providence
chemical highness
secular silence

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:12 pm
by lucasdavidsamuels
could somebody post a really killer early version of solomon from 96 or 97

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:14 pm
by 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.

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:47 pm
by 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.

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:24 pm
by 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

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:49 pm
by Big Bob
cool. nice find.

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:06 pm
by capomatrice
booher wrote: It's the sax solo transcribed (loosely).
what exactly do you mean by loosely?

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:32 pm
by 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.

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:03 pm
by joeyoudon't!
I think his point about the rhythm was that Timo's off on the recording. The notes all look right to me.

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:12 pm
by 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).

- josh

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:16 am
by 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.

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:34 pm
by Cleantone
maybe this - "You're wrapped up and taught like a little cadenza that didn't get home"

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:50 am
by johnhk4
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...

Re: Weight of Solomon, any ideas

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:43 pm
by 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...