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Song: Ed Is Dead
Artist: Pixies
Bassist: Kim Deal
Album: Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim
Main Riff
G|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
D|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------4-4-4-4-||
A|-----------------|-----------3-3-3-|-----------------|-----------------||
E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-3-3-3-3-3-------|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-1-1-1-1---------||
Variation
G|---------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
D|---------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------4-4-4-4-||
A|---------------|-----------3-3-3-|-----------------|-----------------||
E|-3-3--3-3-3--3-|-3-3-3-3-3-------|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-1-1-1-1---------||
At the start of the song, rest for the first half of the riff, coming in
on the A
thomaspotts801@netscapeonline.co.uk
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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#1 by at Aug 10, 1990 at 2:38 PM EST |
| Heh, the way he says no is hilarious. Nouh nouh nouh nouh. Lol. No srsly this song rocks my socks..like most of the Pixies' stuff. | |
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Sic TransiT Wanna Be |
#2 by Sic TransiT at Sep 2, 1990 at 4:11 PM EST |
| great song. it's a true story about a girl in l.a. named edith who would ride her bike in the road while listening to her headphones. she got hit, and died. ed is dead. | |
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Ben Wanna Be |
#3 by Ben Porter at Sep 13, 1995 at 12:03 PM EST |
| Here's some more details. The song is taken from 2 Samuel, Chapter 11. After Bathsheba tells King David that he has impregnated her, David sends for her husband Uriah the Hittite who is fighting in David's army. David tells Uriah to "Go down to your house and wash your feet". But Uriah, being the faithful servant refuses and sleeps outside the entrance to the King's palace. The reason David was telling Uriah to go wash his feet is so that he would go home, sleep with his wife, and cover up the pregnancy. That's where the "hit the crapper" part comes from... it's King David telling Uriah to go home to his bathroom and wash his feet. I believe that the whole reference to "Dead" is the fact that starting with these evil deeds, King David's life starts to go downhill, leading to his death. P.S. Frank Black confirms that this song is indeed about David and Bathsheba in a recent SPIN article, (Summer 2004). | |
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Alex Lead Player |
#4 by Alex at May 19, 2000 at 9:22 AM EST |
| Suitably filthy song for the unsuitable and filthy deeds of King David. As an epilogue to Bathsheba getting pregnant and Uriah getting sent to the front line and topped by the opposing army, David & Bathsheba's baby dies. Never say the Bible's light reading. | |
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Josh Average |
#5 by Josh Riemersma at Aug 4, 2003 at 10:26 PM EST |
| 9ign, I think "Uriah hit the crapper" is just a rude way of saying that he died. Frank Black said in some interview that the word "dead" in the song is a metaphor for lustful sex. The song has depressing lyrics, but it makes me bob my head everytime I hear it. (Sorry if this is a triple post, hope it's not) | |
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troy Average |
#6 by troy worden at Sep 15, 2006 at 10:23 PM EST |
| what an excellent song this is. I hear the distorted guitar as a clear inspiration for Nirvana's Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, among others. and the change of the funk riff from a major interval to a minor interval the second time it is played is absolutely genious! | |
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