Beatles Cover Thread!

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8-Track Flashback! 1983!

This is one of my earliest 8-track productions on the Tascam 38.
This Boy!
 
It's another new day,...

and another old post! :eek: :eek: :eek: ;)
Don't Let Me Down!
Recorded on 10/20/91 live-to-stereo onto standard cassette.
The Electric Dogs!
 
Timothy Lawler said:
Very nice. I like the way you sing "eyes" in "...and in her eyes you see nothing...", and the way the bass sounds when it comes in on the 2nd verse (I think that would be its strongest entrance and if it were me I'd leave it out of the chorus preceding it, but just my own taste, the arrangement's very good).

Hey this has the same descending bass line at the opening as Kafer's Beatle-like "The Ledge" if anybody remembers that tune.

Tim
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I can't believe this thread is still being dredged up; how awesome!

Don, this is very sweet. You're lucky to have a voice good enough to sit up front like that and be perfectly appropriate... :) I confess to never having heard that song before, it's lovely....
 
DonF said:
scouse said:
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There are two camps either we strive to get as close to the original (a sort of musical nirvana) complete with mimicing mistakes on the original or we attack it with a different arrangement. Whilst there is some merit in the former from a musicianship point of view I prefer to do the latter. At least there is some creativity on the musicans part.
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I agree with you. However, I believe that there is value in this sort of mimicry if one approaches it like an art student copying one of the Old Masters' paintings. I learned an awful lot about this recording in the process of remaking it. In particular, avoiding a mechanical feel, and preserving the looseness and spontaneity of the original, was quite a challenge.

Don
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We took the latter path with In My Life, (see firt post in the thread dfor those reading this for the first time) but I too see the merits in a faithful copy; it is an outstanding educational tool for both arranging and playing!
 
danny.guitar said:
Recorded this just now after I saw this thread. :)

Just woke up not too long ago, and my guitar is buzzing like crazy for some reason, but oh well.

Beatles Medley (Mostly Yesterday):

Hi-Fi · Lo-Fi
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Somehow, might the two be related? (Recording sleepy) :) :)

Yesterday is lovely, a tender and delicate arrangement... Especially love the ascending line where "love was such an easy game to play" is...
 
The Beatles thread lives!

Man, you chose some damn hard songs to cover there!

Good work though, must be pretty good memories from back in the 80's when you did these.
 
Yeah, the 80's were all that!

Perhaps if I produced these numbers new today, I'd bring it to a whole other level of quality all around, but for the 80's it was the best I could muster! :eek:

Thanx!...................... ;)
 
Gosh, thanx!

(I think) What makes it even more interesting, is that the first two were done entirely on the Tascam 244 (4-track cassette), and (I Want You) was done with the bulk of the song on the 244, then dubbed over to the Tascam 38 for overdubbed drums.

To say I used "track-bouncing" to produce these numbers is a huge understatement. I was all about "bouncing" at this stage (84-87), otherwise I'd never have been able to yield that many instrument parts and thickly layered vocal parts. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, All good children go to heaven! Amen!

Thanx again! Carry on!
 
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Pretty cool Don. I was just listening to "For No One".
 
DonF said:
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Don
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Excellent!! Nice ac gtr sound and vocals. Really good vocal intonation. Any autotune on it? If there is it's skilfully applied.

I think an edit maybe lost a beat on the gtr 8th note lead-in to the phrase at 2:00. Who cares though. Great feel to the performance.
 
Tim,

I don't have any auto-tune devices. I'd almost always rather hear an out-of tune vocal than a robotic one. The lost 8th note was a mistake, and I just left it in. My excuse is that I'm avoiding foolish consistency. (There are a few edits, but not at that spot.)

(edit) I think you may have been hearing some mp3 compression artifacts, which can sound similar to auto-tune artifacts. I uploaded a new file at a higher rate.

Tim, Track Rat, and ARP, Thanks very much for the listen!

Don
 
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variaxman said:
Thought I would get in on this...
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Very nice, variaxman. Are those binaural recordings? There's a kind of "you are there" quality to them.

Don
 
DonF said:
I don't have any auto-tune...
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That's kind of what I thought but was just curious. So my second question is how many takes did it take to get the vox parts that well in tune - or does that just come easy for you?

The lost 8th note was...
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Well, like I said, who cares? We all edit way too much.
 
Timothy Lawler said:
That's kind of what I thought but was just curious. So my second question is how many takes did it take to get the vox parts that well in tune - or does that just come easy for you?

Well, like I said, who cares? We all edit way too much.
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Some of us have to to survive, we don't all have your chops, hoss. :) :)
 
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