"Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles
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Topic: "Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles
Date Posted: 29 June 2009 at 1:37pm
Does anyone know if a promo 45 was ever issued for Eagles' "Life in the Fast Lane" that edits out the use of God's name in vain in the following passage:
She said, "Listen baby.
You can hear the engine ring.
We've been up and down that highway;
Haven't seen a ___________ thing."
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Posted By: Bill Cahill
Date Posted: 29 June 2009 at 2:10pm
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I never heard of one. Both the stereo and mono sides on my DJ 45 feature the line unedited. The mono side sounds like a simple fold down.
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 29 June 2009 at 2:35pm
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Thanks, Bill. It's interesting that Top 40 stations were evidently willing to let the offending word air uncensored in 1977 (unless stations opted to perform their own custom edit), yet a few years later the very same word was edited out on some DJ 45 copies of the Rolling Stones' "She's So Cold" and even as recently as 2007 on Fall Out Boy's "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" (which, granted, uses the word far more frequently in the song's chorus).
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Posted By: boynamedfoo
Date Posted: 29 June 2009 at 6:03pm
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I was wonder this myself. Because just two weeks ago on the local oldies station (Majic 105.7)they played a rebroadcast of AT40 circa 1977, and it had an edited version. The station doesn't edit it any other time they play that song. I figured Casey just wasn't comfortable with that back then and his team made the edit.
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 23 March 2014 at 11:16am
Just heard the "...Haven't seen a ___________ thing"
portion of the song on the CC Premium Choice Classic Hits
stream. The god in god damn was muted. Custom edit is my
guess.
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Posted By: Bill Cahill
Date Posted: 23 March 2014 at 1:14pm
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Yes, that is a custom edit.
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Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 23 March 2014 at 1:36pm
Bill, I figured you'd know :). It was actually a nice
crossfade edit.
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Posted By: Robert
Date Posted: 24 March 2014 at 2:44pm
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I did an edit a few years ago. Not sure how to share it with the "masses," but can send a link to anyone interested.
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Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 24 March 2014 at 7:22pm
I don't hear it as taking God's name in vain, if you look
up the definition of the work "vain". In that way, I also
have no problem with Steppenwolf'd "The Pusher".
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Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 29 March 2016 at 6:11pm
Anybody know where the fade starts to simulate the 45?
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Doug
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All of the good signatures have been taken.
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Posted By: sriv94
Date Posted: 30 March 2016 at 4:23pm
Well, silly me. The 45 and the LP are the same. It's "New Kid In Town" that has a length designation.
Never mind.
(And thanks to Jim for the dub.)
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Doug
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All of the good signatures have been taken.
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