Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> <g...@freephile.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I can use Meld, but like the song says: <lyrics artist="ZZ Top">I
> > want my MTV</lyrics>
>
> I believe the song you are thinking of is "Money For Nothing", by
> the band Dire Straits. :)
And I believe the phrase in question was actually voiced by Sting :)
But maybe Greg can be forgiven for thinking that it was ZZ Top--
that was presumably due to the ZZ-Top-esque guitar part;
Wikipedia's `Money for Nothing' article says:
Production
Knopfler modelled his guitar sound for the recorded track after ZZ
Top guitarist Billy Gibbons' trademark guitar tone, as ZZ Top's
music videos were already a staple of early MTV. Gibbons later
told a Musician magazine interviewer in 1986 that Knopfler had
solicited Gibbons on how to replicate the tone....
--
Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))).
_______________________________________________
gnhlug-discuss mailing list
gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
