[1]This is a chord, this is another by :
"I just learned 'Imagine' on the piano," tweeted [2]@acupoftea
yesterday, "and I would like to officially rescind any energy I've
spent being impressed with people who can play 'Imagine' on the
piano." I chuckled, and then she [3]followed up with, "If you want
to demystify pop music, learn, like, four chords and just play them
in a different order & rhythm each time."
That immediately made me think of the famous zine graphic above,
included in the book [4]Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-1980_. Toby
Mott [5]explains:
> [It's] an illustration from a fanzine called _Sideburn #1, which
was a drawing made by Tony Moon just to fill the space. It's a
drawing of three guitar chords and it says, 'now form a band'. That
fanzine is extremely rare, but the drawing is often quoted by lots
of musicians as the impetus to do something, and it's seen as a key
message of punk," says Toby. "You didn't need to have been to music
school or be particularly proficient or skilled. It was much more
about the energy and drive to do something. It's a rallying call to
the troops.
Nice to know the story behind a drawing that always puzzled me. Why
are the markings on the frets and not in between them? And why
A-E-G? What songs can you even play with those chords? (Answer:
[6]AC/DC's "TNT" and [7]T-Rex's "Bang A Gong.")
By the way, the lyrics to 'Imagine' aren't world beaters either. I
believe that if anyone other than a former Beatle put that song out, it
would have sunk under the sea of much better stuff that itself never
surfaced.
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