This reminds me of a road trip I took years ago with my best friend. Dude is an awesome guitarist but a little musically uncultured. He likes what he likes and other stuff might as well not exist. Well I have a much wider palate for music than he does and most of the time when we are hanging out, he discovers new music.
We were driving down route 66 and crossing into Texas on our road trip and the song “Free Fallin’” comes on. Immediately he pipes up and says “ah, man this is the worst cover of this song I’ve ever heard. The quality makes it sound like it was recorded in the 70’s or 80’s and you really just can’t replace John’s voice.” I pulled over the car and began interrogating for clarity.
“John who?”
“Mayor? The original is so much better than this.”
“You think John Mayor wrote Free Fallin’?”
“What do you mean?”
“I really really need you to think about why this song sounds ‘older’ than John Mayor’s Free Fallin’.”
“Oh…”
I haven’t let him live it down. Every road trip we have been on since, I make sure the original is on the playlist somewhere. It was out of character for him to be so confidently incorrect.
In the pre-internet-as-weʻve-come-to-know-it days, there were actual YEARS of on/off debate between my best friend and I over who first sang “I Shot the Sheriff.” He was convinced that Bob Marley was covering Clapton. I told him repeatedly that this was nonsense. I happened to be in a record store, looking at vinyl (this was in the days of CDs; I owned no turntable but I like flipping through the bins) and I came across the Clapton album that had his cover of “I Shot the Sheriff” on it. Sure enough, in plain English, underneath the song title were the words “written by R. Marley.” So I bought the record for the sole purpose of laying it in front of him to prove to him that Clapton was covering Marley.
“Whatever bro, Iʻve seen the Cream album where it says Clapton wrote it.”
This reminds me of a road trip I took years ago with my best friend. Dude is an awesome guitarist but a little musically uncultured. He likes what he likes and other stuff might as well not exist. Well I have a much wider palate for music than he does and most of the time when we are hanging out, he discovers new music.
We were driving down route 66 and crossing into Texas on our road trip and the song “Free Fallin’” comes on. Immediately he pipes up and says “ah, man this is the worst cover of this song I’ve ever heard. The quality makes it sound like it was recorded in the 70’s or 80’s and you really just can’t replace John’s voice.” I pulled over the car and began interrogating for clarity.
“John who?”
“Mayor? The original is so much better than this.”
“You think John Mayor wrote Free Fallin’?”
“What do you mean?”
“I really really need you to think about why this song sounds ‘older’ than John Mayor’s Free Fallin’.”
“Oh…”
I haven’t let him live it down. Every road trip we have been on since, I make sure the original is on the playlist somewhere. It was out of character for him to be so confidently incorrect.
Sounds like your friend handled being wrong with a lot more grace than you handled being right
You and your friends don’t make fun of each other? It’s all in good fun.
In the pre-internet-as-weʻve-come-to-know-it days, there were actual YEARS of on/off debate between my best friend and I over who first sang “I Shot the Sheriff.” He was convinced that Bob Marley was covering Clapton. I told him repeatedly that this was nonsense. I happened to be in a record store, looking at vinyl (this was in the days of CDs; I owned no turntable but I like flipping through the bins) and I came across the Clapton album that had his cover of “I Shot the Sheriff” on it. Sure enough, in plain English, underneath the song title were the words “written by R. Marley.” So I bought the record for the sole purpose of laying it in front of him to prove to him that Clapton was covering Marley.
“Whatever bro, Iʻve seen the Cream album where it says Clapton wrote it.”
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