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- Malta/Day 10 -
---Bitte in Deutsch----
08/07/2001
"Jerk like me" was almost finished and then Bob decided he could
do a better vocal, Marcus rolled his eyes and said something like
"Why didn't you say this yesterday?" but he pushed the record
button and away we went. The whole thing was worth it though,
the vocal is better and fits in to the new "gospel" sound of the
track. It's funny how songs develop during the recording of an
album, "Jerk like me" is a great example of a good idea, that
gets turned into a good song when the whole band tries to interpret
what the songwriter is trying to say.
That only left one song to mix "Sally and Johnny", but before
we did that we burned a CD of the other songs and listened to
them in David's office on a cheap stereo system. This was the
ultimate test, would it stand up to a crap system? We were pretty
satisfied at the end, although we decided that two songs were
in need of a little adjustment. "Cold outside", the first song,
lacked a little power that was evident on the other songs, maybe
because it was the first song we mixed and our ears were not used
to the studio set-up. "Family song", we thought that the solo
was too quiet on the system, it sounded good in the control room,
but when you got it out on the normal stereo system it sounded
a little indecisive. We're gonna do them again tomorrow.
We had a beach break and then started "Sally and Johnny" before
going to dinner. It was Tom and Deko's last night in Malta and
Tom wanted to take us to a place he remembers going to when he
was recording the famous Instant Karma "lost album". The restaurant
should have been owned by a Scotswomen with a hunchback, but we
never found it, so we ended up eating Pasta for about 5 Maltese
Pounds (!) which is expensive in any currency. Tom owes each of
us at least two keyboard credits for this debacle.
Back to the studio and Marcus worked on "Sally and Johnny". Deko
and Bob discussed the rights and wrongs of this song "Too country,
not enough country, can't hear the lyrics etc." while Marcus tried
to make something of the mix. Then Deko and Bob started drinking
wine and the mix was sounding better all the time! We left it
to ferment and went home to a warm bed and hot dreams.
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