Week Seven: La retorune de la GUITARE

We moved on to a new song this week, the first of an older batch of songs called ‘Tom Tune’. The first thing we did was remove all toms from the equation, so henceforth the song shall be known simply as ‘Tune’ (if we do say so ourselves).

We had already cast this song in to the mental reject pile, but a new drum line and arrangement has sparked some life back in to the beast. Did a live take of drums, warbled vocals (drumming and singing: Levon Helm I aint), bass synth and key board.

During the week I played lots of guitar, which made for a nice change. I recorded all the guitars for ‘Abbatoir’, using my Kramer, Blues Junior and an Ibanez analogue delay. The chopped up Rhodes stuff I did last week didn’t make the cut as it kind of became too big for the song. Might use it for something else. I also managed to get guitar done for ‘Pianodrum’, which was a tad more rawkus – only used an electro harmonix booster pedal and the Blues Junior.

In between takes we’ve been listening to:

Sleep Thieves – 5am, November 6th (Tune. Super mix from Ciarán too)
Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX – We’re new here (BASS)
Jeans Wilder - Sparkler (Great band name, great song)