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2ControversialIGo t1_j6lgdlc wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Best guitar solo? by Similar_Joke_5500

DONT COME BACK TO SAC. What we knew is dead and gone.

Downtown looks like the worst parts of Oakland, the BA trash moved up here. We now have scams at gas stations, open air drug dealing, homeless camps blocks long, lunatics in the streets and murder galore.

I'm trying to get the hell out and up to Eureka

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Minecraftman1782 OP t1_j6lfmu9 wrote

Reply to Anyone willing to make a hit? by Minecraftman1782

Well thank you all for everything and the information given, I mainly write a mix of hip hop and rap music. If anyone is willing to write (and rap) the lyrics let me know! Sorry for not mentioning that I can't sing or rap at all.

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Tobias_flenderz t1_j6lfg89 wrote

Reply to Best guitar solo? by Similar_Joke_5500

Stevie Ray Vaughn's cover of Jimi Hendrix - "Little Wing" is up there for me. Smooth, takes a theme and just keeps lifting it up to new levels as the song goes. Very pretty.

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justaBB6 t1_j6lfdlt wrote

Reply to Songs that give a subtle shot out to other artists? by ZK686

Sorry for the Reddit essay, I’ve just always wanted to make this connection.

I like to read the Boys of Summer example a little deeper than that. Beyond being a just Dead shoutout, it depicts the passage of time by putting the idea of youthful counterculture onto the image of someone that’s gotten older and successful enough to afford an expensive car.

It’s framing the Dead as almost post-countercultural; much like the relationship with the girl in the song, it’s an example of something Don enjoyed in his youth that he looks back on fondly but has since slipped through his fingers with time. The Dead were still around, of course, but they meant something different now. A certain Steely Dan lyric comes to mind, but I digress.

I say all this to say, when the Ataris did their cover of the Don Henley song in ‘03, a time where old Cadillacs are mostly either collector cars hoarded by old money or complete rat traps that reek of dying exceptionalism, and pop-punk was fully mainstream and far removed from the hardcore ‘80s punk scene, their decision to instead shout out the foundational SoCal hardcore outfit with “Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac” is just perfectly fitting to me.

Being a pop-punk band they almost certainly just wanted to do a Black Flag shout-out for the clout but all of the external circumstance coming together so beautifully is what makes it my favorite example.

TL;DR the Ataris changed “Deadhead” to “Black Flag” in their “Boys of Summer” cover and seemingly by complete accident it’s the most thematically perfect reference they could’ve made

Completely unrelated, but Soulwax’s cover of Daft Punk’s “Teachers” is also like 4D chess levels of referencing

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