OFF / OTHER: misinterpretations

Jerry stayer at PI.NET
Thu May 9 04:00:31 EDT 1996


>>   >>>In decimal chains whose mimic cry
>>   >>Not "Mimicry"? Nope, "mimic cry" to rhyme with "never fly"
>>   >>Ah well, I'm the guy who used to think CCR was saying "There's the
>>   >bathroom >on the right" instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise"
>>   >when I was a kid.. .
>>   >Yes, and I thought it was "gitchin for a runnin" in "Born to be Wild"!
>>   >Chris
>>My best ever, from Zep's "How Many More Times":
>>"I'm Harvey the Hotdog, that's my name...
>>Harvey the Hotdog, that's how I got my name"

>My favorite is Hendrix's Purple Haze.. "S'cuse me while I kiss this guy.."

On most performances (including the original) it's 'kiss the sky' alright.
But on one video (Berkeley?) I think Hendrix actually says 'kiss this guy' -
Hendrix is also grinning in Mitch Mitchell's direction during this line.

Dream Theater: 'you drop a bottom line with a dollar sign'; I heard 'you dot
a dotted line with a dotted sign', but that didn't make much sense.
Then I still don't know what is correct: 'in the back of a rented Ford' or
'an ancient Ford'?

We could make quite a list from these misinterpretated lines...

Jerry



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