* RADIO RANT: Conservative Bumper Tunes

[2nd subtitle: Conservative Contradictions III]

It first struck me years ago, when I heard Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" as a lead-in or lead-out bumper to the The Rush Limbaugh Show. How incongruous, I thought, to play such "hip" hard-rock tunes—and to give the show a greater "hip" feel for a wider, younger audience?—VERSUS Rush's own moral-majority message, against we Lefties' supposed drug abuse, profligacy, etc. (common subjects in the very bumper tunes the conservative talk show hosts often play, BTW). Glenn Beck's custom theme song sounds like some knock-off of the Friends TV song: so 90's pop-rock (and now so dated) in its sound. Michael Savage goes them all one better with some thrash-speed-metal theme à la Metallica; this can't be what he listens to in his spare time?! Of course, cultural critics have long pointed out the rather fascist elements of heavy metal; and I can imagine the Savage Nation (as he dubs his acolytes) stomping their jackboots—er, banging their heads—to the ideological beat right now. . . .

On a more pleasant note, I actually enjoy many of the Coast to Coast AM bumpers. There are the expected "ooh-OOh" standbyes, like BÖC's "The Reaper," Fleetwood Mac's "Hypnotized," and Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone." But besides the fact that I love the techno theme song (Moroder's "The Chase"), I occasional get turned onto "new" songs (e.g., Alannah Miles' "Black Velvet" and Métisse's "Boom Boom Ba"); and I often rediscover some tune I haven't heard in years. Thus I was recently inspired to figure out the guitar to old 1970 Santana song "Samba Pa Ti"—rather a jazz-solo, bossa-fingerstyle version. Here's the tab to the first section (I'll send anyone the entire tablature upon request, plus the full key to my more esoteric symbols below):

 |------------------pickup notes::::------------------------------------3--|
 |------------------------------------------------------------3------/5----|
 |--------------------------------------------------2-4-/5-----------------|
 |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
                                           1  &  2  &    3    &   4   &  
::A1::
   GM7                                  Bm7
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||(1h)3=======---3====-----------3----|--/7========---7====-----7h8p7------|
||---------------4====-------0h4==----|---------------7==========-----7----|
||---------------4====----------------|---------------7================----|
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-------------------3----------------|-------------------7============----|
      1   &  2   &   3   &   4   &        1   &   2   &   3  &  4     &

   Em7                                  Am7
 |------------------------------------|---------------------------------3--|
 |----------/8-----8==---8-------5====|====-------------------3------/5----|
 |----------/7-----7==---7-------5====|====----------2-4-/5----------------|
 |----------/9-----9==---9-------5====|====--------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |---0========-------0====------------|---5=======-------------------------|
     1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &        1   &  2   &    3   &   4   &

   GM7                                  Bm7
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |(1h)3=======---3====-----------3----|--/7---7====---7====-----7h8p7------|
 |---------------4====-------0h4==----|---------------7====----------------|
 |---------------4====----------------|---------------7====-----------9----|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |-------------------3====------------|-------------------7----------------|
      1   &  2   &   3   &   4   &        1   &   2   &   3  &  4     &

    Em7                                  Am7     v
 |------------------------------------|---------------5h7p5-5---3h5p3------|
 |----------/8-----8==---8-------5====|====----*5---------------------5----|
 |----------/7-----7==---7-------5====|====----*5--------------------------|
 |----------/9-----9==---9-------5====|====----*5--------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |---0========-------0====------------|---5--------------------------------|
     1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &        1  &  2  &  3     &   4     &
     
   D9                  [harm.]          Am7
 |--*5-------7------------------------|---------------5h7p5-5---3h5p3------|
 |--*5----------/12===--!12!==--------|--------*5---------------------5----|
 |--*5--------------------------------|--------*5--------------------------|
 |--*4--------------------------------|--------*5--------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|---5--------------------------------|
     1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &        1  &  2  &  3     &   4     &

  D9 v                                 D7 v          [single attack:]
 |--*5--------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |--*5-----5---5---5h7p5\3====--------|---3--------------------------------|
 |--*5--------------------------------|---5-------------------5p3/1p0h1/3--|
 |--*4--------------------------------|---4--------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|---5--------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
     1  &  2   &   3     &   4   &        1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &

   Am7                                  Bm7                       v
 |------------------------------------|--------------------------*2--------|
 |---------------5========---5--------|-------3-------5b(7)---3--*3--------|
 |---2-----------5========---5--------|--/4----------------------*2--------|
 |---------------5========---5--------|------------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |-----------------------5====--------|------------------------------------|
     1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &        1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &

   Am7(9)                               D9
     v   v   v   v   v   v   v
 |--*7---5---5---3---3-------3--*5====|============================--------|
 |--*5-------------------5------*5====|============================--------|
 |--*5--------------------------*5====|============================--------|
 |------------------------------*4====|============================--------|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
     1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &        1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &

  D7 v
 |---------------------------------3--|| [to the top . . .]
 |---3-------------------3------/5----||
 |---5----------2-4-/5----------------||
 |---4--------------------------------||
 |---5--------------------------------||
 |------------------------------------||
     1   &  2   &    3   &   4   &