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Oct. 18th, 2002 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transmothragot a buncha cassettes out of storage yesterday, along with my old trusty four-track. i'm gonna take it to Indiana next week for repairs, as a sort of present to myself. i hope it won't cost too much, but god dammit, i have GOT to lay some of this shit down on tape before i go insane!
in related news, i taped "Let It Be" on my crappy dictaphone, to see how well i'm actually pulling it off (outside my bloated head). it sounds noisy and hissy, but i think i pulled it off alright. i kinda started doing a little Nick Cave thing a bit. for those who don't know, i was working on a sort of imitation of Nick Cave doing "Let It Be" about two years ago, long before that spooky bastard went and actually recorded it hisself for the I Am Sam soundtrack. weird as fuck, huh? (i haven't even heard it, although i'm dying to, especially considering it was my goddamned idea in the first place!) anyway, i damn near hit that high note at the end, and my timing wasn't too bad, so i guess it worked out ok. i play the piano part in a sort of pseudo-gospel way for it, too, so it's gonna sound kinda neat when i get around to putting it in stereo with overdubs. i'm not sure if i'll lay down that beautiful guitar solo (from the dirty version) or not. and for once, my vibrato was actually good. too bad you can barely hear it over the noise on the tape.
of course, this stuff will NEVER be released, since the royalties for recording a Beatles cover and selling it are far too great for the likes of me! but i've got a few cool covers in the can (from back in the day), and it's always really fun to do those. someday i'll be the next Todd Rundgren and record really super spot-on covers, with just a little twist.
in related news, i taped "Let It Be" on my crappy dictaphone, to see how well i'm actually pulling it off (outside my bloated head). it sounds noisy and hissy, but i think i pulled it off alright. i kinda started doing a little Nick Cave thing a bit. for those who don't know, i was working on a sort of imitation of Nick Cave doing "Let It Be" about two years ago, long before that spooky bastard went and actually recorded it hisself for the I Am Sam soundtrack. weird as fuck, huh? (i haven't even heard it, although i'm dying to, especially considering it was my goddamned idea in the first place!) anyway, i damn near hit that high note at the end, and my timing wasn't too bad, so i guess it worked out ok. i play the piano part in a sort of pseudo-gospel way for it, too, so it's gonna sound kinda neat when i get around to putting it in stereo with overdubs. i'm not sure if i'll lay down that beautiful guitar solo (from the dirty version) or not. and for once, my vibrato was actually good. too bad you can barely hear it over the noise on the tape.
of course, this stuff will NEVER be released, since the royalties for recording a Beatles cover and selling it are far too great for the likes of me! but i've got a few cool covers in the can (from back in the day), and it's always really fun to do those. someday i'll be the next Todd Rundgren and record really super spot-on covers, with just a little twist.
