"Pure Love"

Backdated, archival post

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Back in January I listened to Andrew Bird's Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs for my Collection Audit project, and I thought the guitar part at the beginning of "Banking on a Myth" sounded like a phrase in Argent's "Pure Love" - the organ phrase at the beginning of II. Prelude.

I finally got around to checking that, and - while I still think it's just coincidental - they're very similar.  The phrases are different lengths, but the first halves of each are pretty much the same, except for the keys and some note values.

In any case, in re-learning that organ phrase (I learnt it [or sort of learnt it] back in 2014), I also learnt the bass and guitar parts that go under most of it.  But I won't get to recording and posting that for a few days because I still have these historical recordings to get through and then the riff from "Play It for Real."  But, coming soon: rhythm parts for "Pure Love: II. Prelude."