VLVL2 (12): Minor Chords

[Dave Monroe]

Jee-zuss ...

--- joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> My alt-country band played on a double bill with a
> Zappaesque, Oingo-Boingo influenced funk band. Their
> big cover was the theme from Inspector Gadget.  It
> was a local radio station's weekly "Latina Night".
> I'm not kidding. I can't make this shit up.

Reminds me of the first tour by The Jam on these
shores, opening for Blue Oyster Cult ...
 
> That aside. Dominant seventh chords can sound quite
> pretty in context despite the embedded "Devil's
> interval" tritone. Major sevenths contain the
> equally dissonant embedded minor second. They can be
> really gorgeous. George Benson made a career on
> them. The diminished seventh contains STACKED
> tritones. The effect can be sweetly unresolved
> (really jazzy) or jarringly evil. The intro
> to "Purple Haze" is a diminished seventh played as
> alternating partials. Major sixth- also dissonant-
> think "Star Trek". Very spacey. Stacked tritones-
> the aliens are unfriendly and in your face with
> their bad attitude.

See here also, e.g. ...

Walser, Robert.  Running with the Devil:
   Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music.
   Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1993.
   
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/0-8195-5252-6.html

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/walser-cp.php

> Personally, I suspend everything.

That Pete Townshend baroque thing, my received shtick
as well ...

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