dennis
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Registration Date: 10-03-2004
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Favorite 77s album: "88"
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Sorry! Back on topic! 
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After endless delays due to illness and so many other things, we finally resumed work on the album yesterday, and rather than jumping back into more background or lead vocals as planned, we decided to record a song that I had on the list of hopefuls for the original basic tracking sessions nearly two years ago.
Along with the electric stuff, I really wanted to present a song or two done in the traditional format that most of these songs were originally cut in over seventy years ago. One of my favorites of these is the wonderful "Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime" done by the 'guitar evangelists' Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers. I really wanted to go for a backyard (as opposed to 'front porch') blues feel so the guys suggested that we cut totally live, which completely scared the crap outta me, but in the end it was totally the way to go.
Rather than the usual b***/drums/electric guitar configuration, Mark played an un-amplified electric guitar tuned to an open E chord while I strummed an acoustic 12-string with only 6 strings tuned to the same tuning. Bruce shocked us both by playing two tambourines with his feet while tapping on a small 8" drum head. It looked and sounded ridiculous while we were doing it, but when we heard the playback I was completely dumbfounded -- that slight tapping upon the drum head created a m***ive thump that sounded like one of John Bonham's gargantuan kick drums. It was completely scary and almost had me convinced that Bruce was secretly practicing some kind of voodoo on the side. In reality, it probably had more to do with the amazing microphones we are currently using, including the coveted Neumann U-47 -- these babies deliver so much more than we've gotten out of any other mics ever. This session proved it.
In the end, we got a complete track, vocals and all, in a few hours with only a couple of overdubs on electric slide (I forgot mine and Mark couldn't find his, so Mark's son Dylan suggested dipping into Mark's drill bits -- I had to lay the guitar on my lap but it worked! Any old port in a storm 
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This song will make a perfect album ender and we can't wait for you to hear it. The session went so well, in fact, that we're gonna leave all the mics up and maybe try a few more in this style. I LOVE recording like this -- learn the song on the fly, jump in at the deep end, and in two or three hours you're done. Just like the old days, and it sounds it. Most of my most treasured records of all time were done this way. It's my favorite way to work. |
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MarkyMark77 
Drowning with Land in Sight
Registration Date: 03-24-2005
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Favorite 77s album: 99
Location: Illinois
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So...
Perhaps a 30 second preview of a rough mix of this track could be posted?
Perhaps?
PERHAPS?!?!???????
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Registration Date: 11-17-2004
Posts: 9,890
Favorite 77s album: The one's Mike plays guitar on
Location: Springtown
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| One of my favorites of these is the wonderful "Everybody Ought To Pray Sometime" done by the 'guitar evangelists' Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers. |
So...
Perhaps a 30 second preview of a rough mix of this track could be posted?
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I would dig that too!
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Nailtatt
Rocks in your Head
Registration Date: 05-28-2004
Posts: 24,078
Favorite 77s album: Sticks and Stones
Location: The NFP
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I just wanna say that I need this album now more than ever. Can't wait for Doc and company to wrap it up! I am jonesing bigtime!
By the way, is there a title yet for this bad boy?
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Doctor Love
Doctor Love
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Location: on the moon Alice
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How's about FUN WITH STEAK 
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Nailtatt
Rocks in your Head
Registration Date: 05-28-2004
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Favorite 77s album: Sticks and Stones
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Excellent! Done!
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Gur
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Registration Date: 01-14-2008
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Location: And into this chasm God would let a million Jacob Bayers float down like sparkling dust on a dry wind.
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Marti
Radioactive Crow
Registration Date: 06-01-2004
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Favorite 77s album: Drowning with Land in Sight
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Yet another surf-flavored album. 
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Registration Date: 06-03-2004
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Well Done!
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pass the bacon
Someone New
Registration Date: 08-27-2007
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Favorite 77s album: that really, really good one
Location: Isle of Lucy
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parsimony & beans
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nick
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Registration Date: 12-02-2004
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Man! With each post from Doc it gets harder to wait!!! This is going to be great!
I believe that was how Paul McCartney recorded his Run Devil Run CD (or something like that) for the same reason; a lot of his "heros" recorded like that and he wanted it to have a Cavern feel to it. Now this will blow that away but same concept
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Unbalanced
Registration Date: 03-28-2006
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Favorite 77s album: Sticks and Stones
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Gur
Mezzo
Registration Date: 01-14-2008
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Location: And into this chasm God would let a million Jacob Bayers float down like sparkling dust on a dry wind.
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Doctor Love
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Spoke with the guys, and it's a consensus that as much as we would like to leak some of this in that way (or even a whole song), we are not gonna.
Sorry. You'll just have to wait.
And with that, I'm on my way to the studio to work on it some more. All lead vocals are done, background vocals are nearly complete, and all that's left after that are little odds and ends, fixes, and I think I have one more electric solo to play and that's about it. Mark has already started mixing on the ones that are completely finished so we're getting there.
This is gonna be good.
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peawinkel
Mezzo
Registration Date: 09-30-2004
Posts: 3,685
Favorite 77s album: Tom Tom Blues
Location: Alabaster, Alabama
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Spoke with the guys, and it's a consensus that as much as we would like to leak some of this in that way (or even a whole song), we are not gonna.
Sorry. You'll just have to wait.
And with that, I'm on my way to the studio to work on it some more. All lead vocals are done, background vocals are nearly complete, and all that's left after that are little odds and ends, fixes, and I think I have one more electric solo to play and that's about it. Mark has already started mixing on the ones that are completely finished so we're getting there.
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That's probably an understatement.
I'm reeeeaaaallly looking forward to this. I hope you have it available by C'Stone so you can sell a crapload of CDs. 
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Gur
Mezzo
Registration Date: 01-14-2008
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Location: And into this chasm God would let a million Jacob Bayers float down like sparkling dust on a dry wind.
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Can we say, "crap,' or are we going to have to go back someday soon and edit it?
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peawinkel
Mezzo
Registration Date: 09-30-2004
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Favorite 77s album: Tom Tom Blues
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Crap's permissable, but shit is not
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Gur
Mezzo
Registration Date: 01-14-2008
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Location: And into this chasm God would let a million Jacob Bayers float down like sparkling dust on a dry wind.
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I agree completely about the understatement too.
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nick
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 12-02-2004
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This is great!! It is getting closer. Good to hear that!!!!
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