Just got home from rehearsal to find more great responses, thank you all very much.
Tom, amen, I dig the hell out of Lt. Bob's tracks.
Those were some great times, when we were all learning about bouncing, sound-on-sound, etc... who could have imagined the digital revolution? I hear you loud and clear about the late nights, too. I sure hope we can produce a cd by year's end, but we're notoriously slow about stuff. I got a chuckle from your line about "75,000 guitar tracks."
Flash2ace, man, I'd love to hear some of your old tapes... hope you can get some posted. Very cool what you were doing, I'd especially like to hear you original material.
Theron, why I oughta... You are your own worse critic, you know that? Your stuff is excellent. If I could play you some of the things I recorded on quarter inch reel-to-reel... I felt the same way. But you know I'll always give you a hard time when I think you're being too humble.
Emeric, thanks very much... you're the first to make the Stevie Wonder connection. We almost felt like we were ripping him off with Fortuneteller when we cut it.
Bob Blackford (co-writer) played the guitars and keys on the cut, he's been the ace around these parts for a long time.
Drums would be cut differently nowadays, I hear what you're saying about variations...would add some life to the cut.
I liked your observation about stylistic changes, very interesting.
Chad, thank you sir. Wouldn't bother me a bit to have this on a soundtrack! I've always dug the tom intro to the song. It was originally cut using a drum machine, then we scrapped that track and a real drummer played it... pretty tricky, but he did a great job.
Boydrj, cool, another mention of soundtrack... let 'er rip! Your son is the second person to mention Sting, that's a great compliment to our singer. Thanks, man.
Mark
