Sunday, April 17, 2016

An Update on Recording the Annual O&O

Backdated, archival post


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I have only a few keyboard parts left (piano for "Brief Candles," "Hung up on a Dream," and "This Will Be Our Year"); I have to re-do the guitar part for "Friends of Mine" because I discovered that what I thought was an F major is actually a G7 (which - oddly enough - is the same mistake I made with the end of "Care of Cell 44" when I did the 2014 O&O); and I'm undecided about whether I'm going to try the trombone parts for "This Will Be Our Year."  Then, there's all the mixing and editing, but that shouldn't take too long.

After recording the mellotron part for "Changes" yester-day, I figured out the bottom vocal harmony for the chorus (the part that Hugh and Paul sang), and I plan on writing and posting something about that, but it won't be until after I've posted the annual O&O.

Really, the main purpose of this update is to say that (after only two days), I quit my job because it was horrendous.  So flute acquisition will have to wait a long time, although I probably earned enough money to buy the first Manfred Mann album, which - like Begin Here - also features "I Got My Mojo Working."  I have Muddy Waters' version, but I still haven't gotten around to listening to it.