Talk:Rock & Roll (The Velvet Underground song)

Name that chord

The second of the three chords, the B-flat major, is actually composed of the following degrees: 2(C3), 5(F3), 8(B♭3), 10(D4), and an optional 13(G4). On a guitar, this makes it simpler to play, you bar the first 5 strings at the 3rd fret and you're done. But it makes for a complicated chord to describe. Added tone chord perhaps?
--Jerome Potts (talk) 08:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Cover Versions Changing the Lyrics to Refer to Their Own City

The 'Notable covers and pop culture uses' section of the article has some problems with the substituted city lyrics.

This section begins with details of the cover version by Mitch Ryder's band, Detroit. It then adds:

Other artists to cover the song include The Runaways, Jane's Addiction, both of whom changed the lyrics to refer to their own city instead of Reed's New York, and Phish.

I'm not sure that changing the city name in the lyrics is noteworthy but, if it is, it should mention that the Detroit version does this as well. More importantly, the Jane's Addiction version does not do this. Jane's Addiction is from Los Angeles but their most famous recording of this song, as far as I know, is from the 1987 Jane's Addiction album where they keep "New York" as the city.

(FWIW, The Runaways do change the city to "L.A.". And, from what I've seen, Phish keeps "New York" (as one might expect).)

If the city name change is to be kept, the Detroit version should have this comment as well and the Jane's Addiction version should be corrected.

I'm on the fence as to the noteworthiness of this information. But, to keep the changes to the article to a minimum but fix the errors, I will reword the article to keep the city details. Fellow Wikipedians may wish to change this.

Wantnot (talk) 11:01, 18 August 2019 (UTC)