Edge of Seventeen

Michelle can you handle this?

I asked my musician friend and he said it's an electric guitar that's run through an effects box.

She got the idea from Tom Petty's wife who said she met her husband "at the age of 17" which Stevie misheard as "the edge of of 17" and then she fucked her husband

There are two: a guitar and a cymbal.

You're welcome.

The song is about the death of an uncle she was very close to.

It's a great song.

r3 Tom wasn't disgusting enough for Stevie to fuck. She was fucking Jimmy Iovine!

the sea changes color but the sea does not change.

In this youtube video, you can watch a guitarist perform a cover version of Waddy Wachtel's guitar work on "The Edge of Seventeen."

In the video description he notes:

[quote] This is a cover I've wanted to do for years, but the tone eluded me. After many hours on my Axe-Fx III, I finally discovered the live tone. This is not as simple as it looks. Playing 16th notes for over five minutes is an arduous task. Stevie's guitarist, Waddy Wachtel, doesn't use effects. There is no echo used here. It's all in the picking and amp tone. Waddy is an incredibly talented studio and concert musician.

So it was just a guitar. I feel so dumb.

There are no dumb questions, OP, remember that.

The whole song really is just pure poetry set to music. The upbeat rock melody hides the fact that it's a very sad, deep song. I don't really know anyone who doesn't like this song.

Well, then suddenly there was no one Left standing in the hall In a flood of tears That no one really ever heard fall at all

Thanks for the link R9! I've assumed since the song was released that it was some kind of "synthesizer" effect.

That's the accordion you hear in the beginning.

@r11, "There are no dumb questions, OP, remember that. "

Are you new here? 🙄

[quote] There are no dumb questions, OP, remember that.

Oh for God's sake, Rose.

We would have been spared so much misery had your parents never told you that lie.

A shitty video for a shitty cover.

My bad @ R17.

I don't know any Lindsays or Lindseys.

The 1981 live version has a harder vocal edge to it

And the days go by like a strand in the wind......

Haven’t heard that in years-thx OP

in the web that is my own I begin again.

I remember when I was a kid the live version was a hit too.

I went home to Phoenix... and went to visit my uncle (who was very sick), not knowing that no one but his son, John, was there... and I sat on his bedside, while John sat on the floor beside him, and we stayed there. My father did not come, nor my mother... nor my aunt... so I sat there and held his hand, and sometime right about sunset, he turned his head slightly to John, and then to me, and his hand slowly let go of mine. I did run out into the hallway, but no one was there... and the white winged dove took flight...

[quote]She got the idea from Tom Petty's wife who said she met her husband "at the age of 17" which Stevie misheard as "the edge of of 17" and then she fucked her husband

Hope that was before he picked up that scorching case of herpes.

Stevie wrote the most intriguing lyrics. They sometimes make no sense but sound very good.

I said ooooo