Re: Gaffa

[chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (Chris Williams)]

>chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (Chris Williams) writes:
>
>> Agreed, people do use it this way, but Kate's recording studio
>> is a tiny, low-ceiling thing, and has nothing suspended that I
>> have been able to see. It would be relevant if Kate toured, and
>> dealt with things being rigged over her head. But, sadly, she has not.

>Ummmm, Chris, *The Dreaming*, and her previous albums were not
>recorded in Kate's home studio, which at the time was only "half of a
>heaven".  I think you must know this.  

   My mistake (or gaffe) on the recording of _The Dreaming_. She demoed 
and wrote the songs there, but finished them in a larger studio. But you 
are being purposefully obtuse in your insistence that "gaffer's tape" is 
any sort of vital tool of Kate's trade. Recording tape, splicing tape, 
masking tape; yes. Gaffer's tape? I don't think so. Certainly not to the 
point of invalidating the *much* more rational connection to "gaffe".

   If Kate was a constant stage performer, I might buy the "gaffer's
tape" explanation. As it is, it sounds like something one of her friends
said upon hearing the song. I can imagine someone saying "Gaffa? What's
gaffa? Is that like gaffer's tape?" (possibly the same friends who kept
commenting to Kate how "Spanish" _Sat In Your Lap_ sounded.) I can
imagine Kate getting tickled at the misinterpretation, and using it
on the next interviewer.

                          Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
                               chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his)
                                 vickie@njin.rutgers.edu      (hers)