Knocking On Heaven's Door

THis is the first video where I use a new gizmo my sweet wife bought me, something called a Wazinator and that is a rounded triangle of wood with an output jack. It's just a hunk of Electric Floor to be stomped on to provide some foot percussion. No miking needed for the wazinator, just a quarter-inch input to the old mixer. You may behold it in a couple of places in this video.

Hey, I have no right to tell my fellow musicians what the “right” way to play anything is. I think everyone has a “right” to make music any old way they want. Of course, I don’t necessarily have any obligation to listen to them, nor they to me. So then.

So then…so then it drives me BONKERS when so many musicians, some of them dear friends whose artistry I otherwise admire and envy—when so many of ‘em forget that this song, as written by its Nobel Prize Laureate author, has FOUR CHORDS in it: first G-D-Am, always followed by G-D-C. What I keep hearing is only the first half of that, over and over and over. Long time no C. Like, ever. Just G-D-Am, and if you do both verses and choruses plus the hums at the start and end, you hear that same three chord earwig a bare minimum of 22 times with no relief, and that’s not including breaks and interludes and repeats. Zzzzzzz….

So to keep things precisely twice as, um, not boring, that C chord should alternate with every Am chord so that the basic “arch” of structure is now twice as long, thus we only hear the thing like 11 times. And anyway it has a li’l spice to it the small one doesn’t, you know what I mean? The C chord has never sounded so luscious.
So am I saying there IS one right to play it? Hell yeah! C’mon now people, smile on your brother, everybody get (your act) together and play G,D, Am—, G, D, C— right now. Keep playing it! Now you got a song, children.