Badge: featuring the arpeggiated guitar stylings of L'Angelo Misterioso

Yesterday, we listened to Breakfast with The Beatles on the radio, on the way home from Malibu. This is a show that many have mentioned to me about but never heard it till the drive home on Sunday. It reminded me of Richard Turner's Sunday Morning Beatles show on KSYM in San Antonio. That was the radio show that I listened to during my teens and through my early thirties before I moved away from Tejas.

There's nothing like driving through L.A. and hearing The Beatles blasting through yr car radio. I was impressed by the depth and selection by Dennis Mitchell on his Beatles show. He played a block of songs featuring the collaboration between Eric Clapton and George Harrison.

One of the tracks he played was "Badge" by Cream. This song features the arpeggiated guitar stylings of L'Angelo Misterioso a.k.a. George Harrison. Apparently, back in the sixties Harrison couldn't appear on anyone's album with the express written consent by EMI. But Harrison played with his buddy Clapton anyway and even accidentally named this song.

As legend has it, Clapton misread Harrison's handwriting and thought the song was called Badge. But in reality George had written the word Bridge on the top of the lyric and chord sheet.

My favorite part of the song which I pointed out to Michelle yesterday was what I dubbed the quintessential seventies style solo after the lyrics "now he's married to Mable."

Killer song, crank it up. I just wish I knew what Clapton was singing about. Why is the song called Badge? Regardless, I still love Badge.