TriviaNYC Podcast #39: Leprechauns With Vuvuzelas Edition
In which we dwell slightly on the musical talents of one Shaquille Diesel O’Neal, namecheck Mythbusters, Big Daddy Don Garlits and the dissident Andrei Sakharov, and I lose the ability to talk about anything but skorts for a moment, which I’ll totally pretend was intentional on my part.
The Queen song that ends the podcast, “‘39,” was one of the very first songs I ever learned to play on the guitar. It’s pretty much straight up Em-G-Am-C-D, which is a great exercise if you’ve been playing for about a week and a half. Also, as much as I think Freddie Mercury is pound for pound the best rock frontman of his era, the fact that Brian May assembled this one himself, super-high harmonies and all, with almost no help from Mercury, is kinda neat. (The lyrics are fairly standard seventies nerdwank, but whaddyawant, Brian May was doing what he did best.)
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