I know I'm in the minority but I don't buy that the change in Brian's voice in 76 was due entirely to cigarette or coke- induced vocal cord damage. I believe Brian truly felt his younger falsetto voice no longer was appropriate for a 300+ pound 34 year old man. Just look at the pictures of him from the Love You era - an angelic falsetto emanating from this bear of man would sound a tad incongruous. To me the best evidence arguing against a physical cause for the voice change is MIU. To me Brian's vocals on Matchpoint or Come out Tonight sound very much like his late 60s-early 70s vocals. I don't think this sudden return to form was due to quitting cigarettes or drugs for a few months. Much more likely is that Brian wanted to (or was forced to) sing in his old (younger) voice.
Saw the concert twice and it was fabulous. And contrary to what one of the rviews said, there was at least one grown man with tears rolling down his cheeks on opening night (from the snippet of Can't Wait to Long right through MAD. Various of the TLOS melodies have been popping in and out of my head since. This morning it was Southern california and I wonder whether anyone else hears Passing By in it? I'm just relying on my memory of it so I could be off-base or on the other hand maybe it's so obvious everyone else has already been commenting on it. Let me know.
I think it is one of the more interesting songs in Brian's solo career. Many changes, several hooks, catchy. But I also think Van Dyke may have contributed more than lyrics. Some of the music sounds as if it could be Van Dyke's and not Brian's.
Very interesting thread - in fact it prompted me to register and post after lurking for awhile. For whatever it is worth (see AGD's earlier post above) in my Katrina charity call from Brian I asked him which parts of the 2d movement were newly written (I was thinking of the melody lines in SFC and CIFOTM). He immediately answered that oh no, the 2d movement was all written back in the 60s. I then asked specifically about the melody in the verse of CIFOTM and he said that it was written in the 60s. Before I could ask anything more the conversation was over. Now who knows, maybe Brian was thinking of the chorus to Child or the basic track or whatever, but I like to think that the melody in fact was original and would have been sung by Dennis. Also, what Darian said about uncovering Child vocals was that he could hear in the headphone bleed a whole additional layer of background vocals, not a melody line. I also remember reading about him finding the clarinet line in SFC, but I can't remember where I read it. Love this thread, keep it going.
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