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Last Updated: 12/17/2009

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City: Santa Ynez
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 7/7/2006

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Saturday, October 11, 2008 
Originally recorded on an Ampex 300 ½" 4 track in 1969 (I was 16 years old). The mp3 was made from a mix that was done on an ATR 102 dated 1985. 
Drums (Slingerland), bass (Vox Cougar), Wurlitzer (140B), acoustic guitar (Alvarez still have it) were recorded on the Ampex 300-4 (still have it) and reduced to one track of an Ampex 350 2 track (still have it) on Scotch 206. That track was transfered back to one track of the 300. Then, added vocal/pitch pipe, two electric guitar tracks (strat wish I still had it) tracks and the weird sounding harmony parts on the lines "he is a friend of mine" to fill up the 4 tracks. Those weird harmony parts were done by jamming the mic on my Adam's apple. I had a few different mixers back then, but I think this was mixed on an 8 channel Gately . I know what ever it was had pan pots and more than 4 inputs. These 4 tracks were mixed back to the Ampex 350 2 track. I had a Fisher Space Expander for reverb and an Echochord tape echo. My monitors were Electro Voice Sentry II (still have them). Vocal mic was a Norelco D-24 dynamic (still have it). The guitar distortion was achieved by going into a Hi Z -> Lo Z matching transformer into an Altec 1567A and driving the heck out of it.

I believe that working with limited tracks in those days made us better arrangers. Having to do reductions made us better mixers. Having limited equipment made us better engineers.
Thursday, July 26, 2007 
This song was submitted for the film "Shaggy Dog".  I kept "hounding" my music connection to the film almost every day.  I was told that the CD had made it to Matt Aberle (music supervisor) and was waiting approval.  This went on for months.  The bottom line is, it got rejected.  I still think there were a couple of scenes where it would have fit beautifully.  What do I know?

If you've seen the movie and have heard the song... tell me what you think.