"Imagine the Swan"

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Last night, I looked into "Imagine the Swan" some more.  I think I've got the guitar parts from the second stereo version.  I had to split the track to hear them more clearly (in the left channel), and I don't think I'd ever really noticed them before.  And they're great!  It's a good example of my appreciating a song more once I've learned to play it (because otherwise I probably would have continued on in ignorance of those parts).

I think I had a chord wrong, but now that I've changed it, it still doesn't sound right.  I played the bass part a little differently too, but I’m still not convinced that it’s super accurate.

Also, I must amend what I wrote yester-day.  "Imagine the Swan" isn't a Rod Argent song; it's a Chris White song.  It shares that descending bass starting with a 7th chord and the Bach influence, and it's sung by Rod Argent, so naturally, I thought it was written by him too.  I looked it up in the Zombie Heaven liner notes whereby I discovered my error.

The liner notes also say that "it featured the personnel of the soon-to-be named Argent: Russ Ballard on guitar, Jim Rodford on bass and Bob Henrit on drums."  The Zombie Heaven version doesn't include those extra guitar overdubs, so because Ballard is credited there, I'm wondering if there are other guitar parts that I'm still unaware of.