It was beautiful, and that’s the way it stands to this day. “We turned up the volume so that it sounded as if the Pope just entered Vatican Square.
“Loud laughter can make a bad joke sound funny, loud applause can make a mediocre performance sound positively virtuosic, so halfway through Sweet Jane, when the band is still playing the overture, and Lou begins his entry onstage, we beefed up the applause. “Like laugh tracks in sitcoms, you could play with the volume,” Katz wrote. Between the Les Paul heroics and the rapturous response of the audience to Reed and his band, nothing about Intro/Sweet Jane was an accident. It had no name, but after I got together with Lou, he liked it, and we turned it into the intro for what became Sweet Jane.”Īs the intro draws to its conclusion, Reed emerges to an ovation as majestic as the intro he was given. “It was just this thing that I put together with an old acoustic guitar, and later, I was out on tour with the Chambers Brothers – I'd play that same intro with them. “I still remember writing the intro to Sweet Jane while sitting on a couch in my living room,” Hunter recalled to Guitar World in an August 2023 interview. We turned up the volume so that it sounded as if the Pope just entered Vatican Square Steve Katz 197 until the late 50s, then they were a. The magnets in the early Duo Sonics and Musicmaster are. 014s, so it can produce fatter, meatier tone without sacrificing playability.
The slinkier tension facilitates string bends even when using. Hunter and Wagner lead Reed onto the stage with the pomp and circumstance of a marching band, weaving their arcing phrases around one another into a glorious, spellbinding tapestry. The Duo Sonic (has two single coils) and Musicmaster (one single coil pickup) guitars always had flatwork (Vulcanized Fibre) similar to the Stratocaster. What I like best about the Duo-Sonic is how the shorter scale allows players to use much heavier gauge strings than they’d normally use.
Prefacing a tough version of the Velvet Underground classic – and leading off what would become Reed's first Gold-selling album – Intro is nothing less than one of the most underrated two-guitar solos of the '70s, if not of all time. Nowhere is the duo's brilliance more evident than the album's opening salvo – Intro/Sweet Jane.
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