The Last Waltz....Home Rec Style

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gtrman_66 said:
Hey, since the theme here is The Last Waltz, I thought I'd post these here. The recording is absoulte crap because I was just using my little video camera as a field recorder set off to one side of the stage. This is from our first "practice gig" (ie. cheap craphole dive where we are woodshedding) so there are a couple trainwrecks I caused here and there :eek:

Anyway, I'm singing lead on "The Weight" and backups on Ophelia and Cripple Creek. Just thought these might help the producer get an idea or two...

Ophelia



Cripple Creek



The Weight

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Nice! Great voice! Whoever is in charge of assigning vocalists, make this guy a prominent vocal contributor. You've got my vote for getting gtrman_66 to sing lead on The Weight.

Also, whoever sang on Ophelia has a great voice, too.
 
HeyHeyMyMy said:
Nice! Great voice! Whoever is in charge of assigning vocalists, make this guy a prominent vocal contributor. You've got my vote for getting gtrman_66 to sing lead on The Weight.

Also, whoever sang on Ophelia has a great voice, too.
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thanks. As I remember, The Weight actually had a different singer singing each verse, so there should be a lot of room for different vocalists to sing if we did it that way.

The guy that sang Ophelia and Cripple Creek is our keyboard/sax player. He is an incredible talent around town I have been wanting to work with for years and finally have the opportunity. I looked over at one point during the evening, I think we were doing "Into The Mystic", which he was doing lead vocals on, and during his solo he had his foot on the sustain pedal and was reaching out and hitting chords on the B3 patch and holding them while he was barking out a killer solo on the sax.....:)
 
BushmasterM4 said:
Make one voice into many. Queen style. If anyone has Waves Doubler they can make one voice into five different voices easily moved any where in the stereo field.
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sounds great..................BUT!!!!!!!!!!! in the face of so many vocalists appearing (in particular B/voices) I strongly object & would opt for real voices 100% of the way. As with the rest of the instruments that end up on here, obviously synths etc etc have to be used for whatever reason. But on a vocal note Steely Dan didn't have a waves doubler.............

Leviathon has some seriously low notes in his throat for choir work. I'll get him to contribute now & then. He be seriously enthusiastic about it as well

would it be an idea to have 3 lead vocalists??? one for each track & the weight with a different verse lead vocal each time.......
 
TelePaul said:
Drums - Greg L
Vocals - Gtrman
Backing Vox - andyhix Snakeyes nakatira Anfontan Slidey
Acoustic x 2 - TelePaul anyone else?
Electric x 2 - slidey
Mandolin - Anfontan
Bass - mshilarious
Synths/Organ -
Keys -
Strings/fidlle - castlerocks
Wind/Harmonica - andyhix
Percussion/hand instruments - mshilarious, andyhix
Mixing - zed32
''Mastering'' -
Lapsteel - TelePaul.
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hmmmmm MORE VOCALISTS huh......

BOING is there scope (preparing to be shot down!!!!) for 2 drummers a la the dead, the allmans etc etc. If so I nominate RAMI wheteher he's aware of it or not yet. Man freakin rocks
 
slidey said:
would it be an idea to have 3 lead vocalists??? one for each track & the weight with a different verse lead vocal each time.......
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Actually, the weight has 5 verses so there's plenty of room there. I agree with you about the real voices thing, this is vintage music we're talking about, and while we may not follow thw album note for note, if we have the real stuff, we ought to use it as much as possible.
 
For what its worth, I'd be willing to chip in lead vocals for a verse or something. What the hell. I sing lead for my real band, and that's where people know who I am. I guess if I suck in the face of a bunch of internet robots, who cares. ;)
 
I have been a fan of the Band since I saw them while on acid in Montreal in 1969 when the Brown album was being played and I have been playing their music ever since. I would be glad to contribute a genuine vintage voice to the sessions along with anything else that coud be wanted like fiddle, mandolin harp etc.


Elder Boing!!!!!
 
Leviathon said:
I have been a fan of the Band since I saw them while on acid in Montreal in 1969 when the Brown album was being played and I have been playing their music ever since. I would be glad to contribute a genuine vintage voice to the sessions along with anything else that coud be wanted like fiddle, mandolin harp etc.


Elder Boing!!!!!
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I don't think we can have enough vocalists, so that's great to hear!

A fiddle would be cool, there's already been an offer but if I recall it was admittedly ropey playing.

Remember if this goes well, we'll probably try the medley so there'll be time for everyone to play!
 
TelePaul said:
Drums - Greg L
Vocals - Gtrman MsHilarious AndyHix
Backing Vox - andyhix Snakeyes nakatira Anfontan Slidey leviathan
Acoustic x 2 - TelePaul anfontan
Electric x 2 - slidey
Mandolin - Anfontan
Bass - mshilarious
Synths/Organ -
Keys -
Strings/fidlle - castlerocks leviathan
Wind/Harmonica - andyhix
Percussion/hand instruments - mshilarious, andyhix
Mixing - zed32
''Mastering'' -
Lapsteel - TelePaul

We've enough to get a rough backing track together. I'd like to get another rhythm player, Anfontan may volunteer for acoustic duties.

Then we need vocalists - alot of them.
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Just updating that list. As for me, I'm eating some chicken then I'm throwing down some rough acoustic to send to Mshilarious who'll add bass and send to GregL. We still need piano!
 
TelePaul said:
Think that was a different band mate!

Cool cool, maybe MsH could sing the first verse and you could do the second?
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I think it will probably be best to fold in my vocal about 9dB behind the lead, just for some extra character.
 
ok wait so just so i'm 100% sure, what exactly should i be listening to for reference material?
 
I can probably do some of the B3 work. I'm no Chester Thompson, but I can lay a good simple line in on some stuff. I have a B3 sim module and a small single rotor leslie that I hope still works.
 
zed32 said:
so are we doing one song or an entire freakin' album? :eek:
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the whole freakin' album:eek:

not realy, I think I saw earlier in the thread where it was suggested a medley of 3 songs from the album
 
zed32 said:
so are we doing one song or an entire freakin' album? :eek:
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We're starting off with Helpless and we're gonna see how it goes. As for what you should listen to as a refernce, yeah The Last Waltz would be a good start. The thing is, our ensemble is going to be pretty weird in that it has some very experienced contributors and some inexperienced ones (like me).

Some people will have high-end gear and nice rooms, others wont. This could be very 'live' sounding. Which I'm all in favour of. The trick will be getting the finished article to sound polished but at the same time keeping that collaborative feel.
 
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