Busking Righteous Brothers
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:18 pm
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
PLEASE READ THE ADVISORY FIRST!
I know that this is completely out of line. Please feel free to turn away now and ignore this one and don’t think too badly of me. I hope I don’t piss too many folks off.
This is hardly one step away from a karaoke version of the most played song ever on the American airways. That was not my intention, it just happened this way. I used the backing track as my baseline as I often do when recording a song laying down the guitar part and the vocals. I am actually playing the 12 string to this but I just ended up blending most of it out to the extent that this doesn’t qualify as a genuine TG busking effort so it probably shouldn’t be here. But you can hear the guitar if you listen. I still consider my self a would-be singer holding a guitar. And I was practising using new recording/editing software and a new mic.
I wouldn’t blame anyone for calling this song Kitsch. It was Phil Specter’s first big hit and in his inimical style he throws the kitchen sink into the mix. And that was my problem. I so thoroughly enjoyed playing and singing along with all the glorious backing and vocals (it gave me goose bumps!), I didn’t have the heart to delete the backing track as I usually would. And it sounded so empty without. But I’ve haven’t been having a good week and just didn’t have the heart to pick up my guitar for days and when I did everything sounded crap. But doing this just blew me away and thoroughly lifted my spirits and I realised that this is just one more option we have of playing along and really getting something out of all the possibilities that You Tube and TG offer us lonesome, budding bedroom guitar heroes. There is no video to it as I’m not into hamming dramatic singing, its just audio. So I hope you’ll let this one by and accept it in the sense it was intended, sharing some form of inspiration with friends.
PLEASE READ THE ADVISORY FIRST!
I know that this is completely out of line. Please feel free to turn away now and ignore this one and don’t think too badly of me. I hope I don’t piss too many folks off.
This is hardly one step away from a karaoke version of the most played song ever on the American airways. That was not my intention, it just happened this way. I used the backing track as my baseline as I often do when recording a song laying down the guitar part and the vocals. I am actually playing the 12 string to this but I just ended up blending most of it out to the extent that this doesn’t qualify as a genuine TG busking effort so it probably shouldn’t be here. But you can hear the guitar if you listen. I still consider my self a would-be singer holding a guitar. And I was practising using new recording/editing software and a new mic.
I wouldn’t blame anyone for calling this song Kitsch. It was Phil Specter’s first big hit and in his inimical style he throws the kitchen sink into the mix. And that was my problem. I so thoroughly enjoyed playing and singing along with all the glorious backing and vocals (it gave me goose bumps!), I didn’t have the heart to delete the backing track as I usually would. And it sounded so empty without. But I’ve haven’t been having a good week and just didn’t have the heart to pick up my guitar for days and when I did everything sounded crap. But doing this just blew me away and thoroughly lifted my spirits and I realised that this is just one more option we have of playing along and really getting something out of all the possibilities that You Tube and TG offer us lonesome, budding bedroom guitar heroes. There is no video to it as I’m not into hamming dramatic singing, its just audio. So I hope you’ll let this one by and accept it in the sense it was intended, sharing some form of inspiration with friends.
