rdiakun

a long, strange trip down the road not taken.

That’s pretty cool that your son is developing his own pereferences and taste at 5!

I like them both, but my preference is still the original on the Night On The Town album.

This song is typical of a lot of Bruce’s songs – it is possible to hear soooo many different ways of performing the song. At times, I thought that it would be a great song to do as a slow old-timey acoustic blues song, maybe with a slide guitar thrown in. Think of the version of The Way It Is that Cruize Henderson did on the Shadow Hands project, and you’ll get kind of what I was thinking, except maybe with a little more chunky acoustic guitar at times.

– Rich

Now, I’m perplexed. When I meet Dave face to face, should I be so brazen as to start the conversation with “Hi”?

– Rich

Thanks to my wife remembering my birthday, I added a couple of new CDs to the rotation. If you haven’t heard the new Coldplay CD, Viva La Vida, yet… do. I love Coldplay’s sound anyhow, but the added touch of Brian Eno doing his thing as producer makes it all the better. The other newbie in the rotation is James Taylor’s Covers CD. I’m really digging his versions of “Summertime Blues” and Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away”, but I think the gem on this one is his rendition of “Wichita Lineman“. That song is perfect for his voice.

Rich

Personally, I think having music start playing at a musician’s site is pretty appropriate. What REALLY bugs me is the sites that have video clips that automatically play when you get to the site’s main page. If I want to immediately go to another page, it slows the whole flippin’ thing down. For example, ESPN’s web site. I go there because I play in a fantasy football league through ESPN. The page that I have to sign in through is their fantasy football main page. When the page loads, the stupid streaming video with their “insider tips” automatically plays, and it slows down the whole sign-in process. Then, after I sign in, the page refreshes and the stupid video starts all over again. Egads, man! What’s with that? I guess if I had a faster computer, it wouldn’t be such a pain in the butt, but I don’t, so it is.

OK… rant du jour is done

Rich

and look how he turned out 😆

daverich wrote:

There are a few bruce hornsby groups on facebook,- you should invite them too

Kind regards

Dave Rich

And then we can invite them over here, too!

Rich

I cheated on the strings. The cheap little Yamaha keyboard that I got for $50 about 10 years ago had the exact string sounds I was looking for, so I used that.

I did, however, play the oboe at the end of the string passage, and I yanked out my old trumpet from school marching band days for the horn parts and used the recording software to drop a couple of octaves on the part that sounds like a tuba line. I also played what sound like clarinet lines on a little plastic recorder, and buried it in effects to make it melt in with the rest. The flute line was a pain. I desperately hacked away at part for a couple of days until I got it right once, and then copied and pasted like a crazy man. The drums were strange. I used that same Yamaha keyboard for that, but had to play around with the mixing software to try to make it sound like a whole line of drums.

I wish that part had come out the way I originally envisioned it. I had this goofy idea of having a marching band come through the middle of the song, going from left to right in the stereo mix – just to be strange and not what you’d expect. I think the idea hit me when I was listening to the Quadrophenia album and heard the little snippet of a marching band between songs. My thought was, “hey, that’s cool, but would anyone expect a marching band to sneak it’s way through during of the song??”

The morse code and the ending bit with the footsteps were last-minute afterthoughts. The morse code spells out “here comes the chill”, and the end part is from an old VHS tape I took when I visited Montreal back in the early 90s and was getting on the subway.

I’m glad you liked it. It didn’t come out as crisp sounding as I had hoped it would. Maybe one of these days I’ll pony up for some really good audio software.

molomolomolo wrote:

If indeed Bruce is paying tribute to the “gloved one”, I nominate “Smooth Criminal” for the record. While I’m at it, I’d like to request “PYT” at Bruce’s next gig. Thanks Bruce!

I’m just glad that at least one person fell for my little “splink” about the MJ tribute CD 😆

– Rich

[quote quote=Sir David of Day (Night, too, from what I hear)]I may or may not know that there are other “birdies” that may or may not know something about whatever we’re talking about! 😆 Maybe they will “check in” and let us know whether they may or may not know something about whatever it is! 😆

Whatever it is, I may or may not know whether they might may or may not know! 😆 😆 😆 [/quote]

OK, I can’t stand the suspense, so I’ll let the cat out of the bag. David is quite silly using the little birdie reference…

The word out is that Bruce is involved in a new tribute CD of Michael Jackson songs, tentatively called “Beat This”, and he’s chosen to do a version of “Rockin’ Robin” . It should be out by Christmas. The most intriguing track, based on the previews, is Ben Folds performing the most beautiful love song ever written about a rat, “Ben”.

– Rich

From what I hear…. tweet!