{"id":1744,"date":"2008-10-16T11:53:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-17T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:57:36","slug":"can-bill-murray-fret-a-d-chord-or-have-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/can-bill-murray-fret-a-d-chord-or-have-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Bill Murray Fret a D Chord, or Have I Been Playing &#8220;Gloria&#8221; Wrong All These Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bill Murray<\/strong> was on <em>Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien<\/em> last night. I&#8217;m a bit disappointed that, 11 hours later, no one has yet posted a YouTube clip of his appearance, but I did find another clip that will do the job of illustrating my concern. Go to around the <strong>3:53 mark<\/strong> (or watch the excruciating if occasionally funny intro, if you want to hate white folks at Blooz festivals).<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z1GOWm-bN38?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Conan must have been hipped to this performance. He brought up the fact that Murray can only play &#8220;Gloria&#8221; on guitar and asked if he would perform it with the <strong>Max Weinberg 7<\/strong>. Murray, ever the showman, readily complied. He kicked off the song playing at least one totally wrong-sounding chord. After about two rotations through the progression, Conan&#8217;s guitarist covered for him, and they pulled down Murray&#8217;s guitar in the mix. As is the case in this Blooz fest clip the second chord in the progression seemed to be the culprit. This has raised at least two questions:<\/p>\n<p>1) Isn&#8217;t the chord progression to &#8220;Gloria&#8221; E-D-A? That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve played it for the last 30 years.<br \/>\n2) If so, does Murray have no idea where to fret a D chord? I know his guitar at the Blooz fest isn&#8217;t perfectly tuned, but it can&#8217;t be that two different guitars have intonation problems around the D chord only.<\/p>\n<p>A third question might be, <em>Does anyone in the entertainment industry break the news to Bill that he doesn&#8217;t even know this one song on guitar?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Murray was on Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien last night. I&#8217;m a bit disappointed that, 11 hours later, no one has yet posted a YouTube clip of his appearance, but I did find another clip that will do the job of illustrating my concern. Go to around the 3:53 mark (or watch the excruciating <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/can-bill-murray-fret-a-d-chord-or-have-i\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}