Testing the waters...

Here's an old Friday favorite of mine, The Stones' Happy... well, actually it was a Keith Richards song. According to legend he went into the studio and tracked guitars, bass and vocals in an afternoon. Taylor and Jagger then came in to add some fills and backing vocals. Not sure when the wind section was done. It's an amazingly uplifting song and so much fun to play, particularly if you do the whole "let go of the guitar on the open B" thing.. ahum. I'm not sure if I did it like the man himself, there's quite a bit going on but I ended up tuning the E string on the bass down to get the bottom D#. I feel that's probably how Keef would have tackled the situation. The guitar tracks are pretty much what I hear on the record, give or take, not going for absolute note by note accuracy. As we don't have a wind section, I replaced the little trumpet fills in the chorus with a digital one from an old Roland Sound Canvas. Not the most convincing trumpet I've ever heard, but I think it works alright in the mix. It was a lot of fun to sing, too... but I'll spare you and let the singer do her thing!

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Oldie but goldie... well, I liked it, a nice little tune with a catchy chorus. We did this about three years ago, I think. In the original album version there's no piano but I added one after we did the rest of the tracks to give it a little swing. Smokie's Oh Carol...

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Here's a little something we did a while back, not long ago. @Valves probably remembers it, but I thought I'd share it here anyway. This wasn't exactly on 'my' list but then the singer came with the idea we all agreed to it. Most people know the song and probably a lot of youngsters think it's a Junkie XL track... well, I can't fix that. Listening to the original on the record, it felt rushed. Even old Elvis himself seemed to struggle a little with the tempo late in the track, plus it's a very short number as it is. I decided to pace it a little differently, giving it some more room to breath. Still somehow unsatisfied with the length [yes, insert a joke there] we decided to simply do the little breakdown/interlude twice, building up a little more energy along the way. Here's A Little Less Conversation...

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