Peak of the Week, V. 114
Track: A Change Is Gonna Come
Artist: The Band
Record: Moondog Matinee
Year: 1973
Comment: Tears of Peak. This song makes me weep, instantly. Tough to go away from Sam Cooke’s original version, but had to go with this one.
Marty DiBergi: It’s pretty.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, I like it. I’ve been fooling around with it for a few months now. Very delicate.
Marty DiBergi: It’s a bit of a departure from what you normally play.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, well, it’s part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy that I’m doing in D… minor, which I always find is really the saddest of all keys, really, I don’t know why. It makes people weep instantly to play [plays and sings]
Nigel Tufnel: It’s a horn part.
Marty DiBergi: It’s very pretty.
Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like — I’m really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it’s sort of in between those, really. It’s like a Mach piece, really. It’s sort of…
Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called “Lick My Love Pump.”
