And we're still going at it from yesterday about the bridge in the 2003 live version of Grief Architecture. You know the one - where the reverb just... drops out? Right before the last chorus? For like two seconds the whole room goes dry and you can hear the fret noise?
[sis says it's a deliberate grief architecture thing - the drop-out IS the bridge, the silence is the structural point, it's him saying "the foundation just disappeared" and I'm like... that's just him forgetting to turn the reverb pedal back on. Or the sound guy sneezed. Occam's pedal, sis.]
((he's been saying "Occam's pedal" since yesterday and it's not funny the first time and it's even less funny the 47th time. the reverb drop-out is the ONLY intentional production choice in that whole live recording. the rest of the mix is garbage. that one moment is him CHOOSING vulnerability. but bro doesn't know what a verb is let alone a subject.))
[SUBJECT IS NOT A GRAMMAR THING IN THIS CONTEXT AND YOU KNOW IT - also she called the rest of the mix "garbage" which is rich coming from someone who owns THREE copies of the Snellville bootleg where Gabriel literally sings over a lawnmower for two minutes. the lawnmower has more compression than his voice. garbage???
]((THE LAWNNOWER IS AMBIENT TEXTURE AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL))
Anyway. She got on the bus. I stood there in the rain for another minute feeling like I lost the argument but also feeling like maybe I didn't? 'cause the bridge thing is real - the drop-out IS structural - but also maybe he DID just forget the pedal and it's beautiful because of the accident? can it be both?
[no. it's one or the other. pick a lane, twin.]
((it's both. it's always both with Gabriel. you know this.))
...I don't know. I need the forum to settle this. Is the 2003 live bridge reverb drop-out intentional grief architecture OR a happy accident? Or both? Does it matter?
- the twin who walked in the rain for this argument