| "I hate Pachelbel's Canon in D, with a passion. I hate it so much because the cello part is the worst cello part ever written in the history of cello parts. It's eight quarter-notes that we repeated over and over again they are as follows: d a b f# g d g a. And that's all we got to play. We repeated those eight notes 54 times. I counted. Because I had nothing else to do. I would sit back and listen to the violins get lovely melodies, the violas would get lovely melodies, the second violins would get lovely melodies which should just never happen. And the cello, we got stuck with eight crappy lousy stinkin' notes. I began to wonder why, why would pachelbel do that to us, such a beautiful instrument? And my theory was he once dated a cellist. And she dissed him really bad so for the rest of his life, he came up with the worst cello parts he could ever think of." -Rob Paravonian |
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