“Any Major Dude” cover production rundown

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Sooo I’m covering this lil oddity of a tune from Steely Dan.

I’m about half-way through the tracking phase. I’m playing all instruments, apart from the drums which my friend will handle. As it stands, this is the lineup:

Lead vocals (no backing) -- AKG D125
Wurli -- keyboard, direct
Piano -- keyboard, direct
Congas (unconfirmed due to unavailability of said instrument)
Bass -- direct, amp sim
Drums -- pending. My usual OH mics (SM81s) are unavailable at the moment... going for a bit of a dirty drum sound anyways so I will experiment a bit with miking.

This will be the first time I produce a full-band recording without any MIDI. As usual, the arrangement takes the original for a spin -- for once though, the chord structure is unchanged apart from a coupla twists in the bridge/solo. For the doubters... I got a more than half-decent keyboard during Christmas. Extremely realistic, particularly the acoustic piano sounds.

Production is in Harrison Mixbus, with IK Multimedia plugins.

Hope to have some clips sometime shortly. Keep an eye and an ear out ;)
 
Ambitious aren't you (y) Great song and nice Rhodes track. Looking forward to hearing what you come up with...Rock on!

I got to see em live in 74 in Glendale, CA at the Sopwith Camel. Michael Mcdonald on piano (not rhodes) I don't remember noticing it but it is said it is not Fagan but the drummer ( Royce Jones) singing any dude in this version ( which is damn cool) Killer bootleg recording of the set
 
TAE said:
Ambitious aren't you (y) Great song and nice Rhodes track. Looking forward to hearing what you come up with...Rock on!

I got to see em live in 74 in Glendale, CA at the Sopwith Camel. Michael Mcdonald on piano (not rhodes) I don't remember noticing it but it is said it is not Fagan but the drummer ( Royce Jones) singing any dude in this version ( which is damn cool) Killer bootleg recording of the set
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Dude.... thanks for sharing that. Hadn't heard it. That is some good stuff! :thumbs up:
 
TAE said:
Ambitious aren't you (y) Great song and nice Rhodes track. Looking forward to hearing what you come up with...Rock on!

I got to see em live in 74 in Glendale, CA at the Sopwith Camel. Michael Mcdonald on piano (not rhodes) I don't remember noticing it but it is said it is not Fagan but the drummer ( Royce Jones) singing any dude in this version ( which is damn cool) Killer bootleg recording of the set
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That’s not Any Major Dude - it’s Boshivtta - and on this version it’s Fagan mixed with Jones - Fagan is on top.
 
Papanate said:
Duh! I thought it was just the one song - and your right it’s Jones singing it - I wonder why?
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Fagen disliked singing lead and was not technically THE lead vocalist until later that year. As I understand, it came down to Fagen or Michael McDonald as permanent lead vocalist (Fagen’s preferrence -- imagine that!!), but Michael opted to join the Doobies instead.

@TAE I’m extremely jealous. Also an insane version of Rikki on that bootleg. Pretzel Logic is the Dan’s first definitive discography album in my opinion -- maybe controversial, but hey. They were beginning to push boundaries, and I have a preference for their later albums anyways.

Also “Any Major Dude” is in F instead of D in this bootleg. Interesting.
 
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