{"id":2242,"date":"2009-07-14T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-14T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T12:44:39","slug":"fadeouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fadeouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fadeouts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78Mc9kg2kU8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I love a good fade out! I was unable to locate an old <em>Musician<\/em> magazine interview with <strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong> on producer <strong>Richard Perry<\/strong> (or was it Perry himself, who would have talked about producing Ringo), but it had a great story about Perry, sitting among a cloud of pot smoke, riding the faders like a mad genius during the long fadeout of <strong>Carly Simon<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain.&#8221; Perry had a thing for fadeouts, thinking they were the key to a hit single. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s still the case, but it got me thinking about a couple of my favorite fadeouts. Maybe you&#8217;ll start thinking about your favorite fadeouts as well.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a3gp_IqtHTo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Mott the Hoople<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;All the Way from Memphis&#8221; contains one of the most exciting, slow-building fadeouts that I can&#8217;t hear often enough. The fadeout builds out of the song&#8217;s stomping rhythm, about <strong>3:15<\/strong> into it, with that squawking sax and a lead guitar that threatens to join in on the soloing and then finally does at the <strong>4:10<\/strong> mark. For the next 40 seconds, as the guitar takes over, the horns start chugging away in the background. In nearly 2 minutes of fadeout time, no one ever goes over the top; the chugging rhythm plays out as if for, well, a mighty long time after we can no longer hear what was being recorded.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIv72OWuPEQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI also like fadeouts that reference some other piece of music, the obvious one being <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;All You Need Is Love.&#8221; My favorite fadeout with a subtle reference, however, might be <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Dolly Dagger,&#8221; which couples the intertwining aural equivalent of the optical illusion of a wheel spinning both forward and in reverse with the bass playing a nod to &#8220;Gimme Some Lovin'&#8221; on the final seconds of the fade.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your favorite fadeouts? And what makes a great fadeout for you?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a good fade out! I was unable to locate an old Musician magazine interview with Ringo Starr on producer Richard Perry (or was it Perry himself, who would have talked about producing Ringo), but it had a great story about Perry, sitting among a cloud of pot smoke, riding the faders like a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fadeouts\/' 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\/2242"}],"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=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}