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Working on Woodstock

10/24/2013

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Got the bass line down to a single mistake now, after 1 1/2 week working on it. It's a rocker too. I'll be ready when my engineer is. I still have to lay down the lead vocal first, but Frank is so busy working on car engines to make his car payments, I've got the bass ready too!

This version is the one I did of the song, originally by Joni Mitchell, and then done so nicely by Crosby Stills Nash & Young. It means a lot to me this song does because it embodies the spirit of 1960's, rock and roll, flower power and paradigm change.

In 1994, I did a version that included my crow, spike. I miss that boy, lemme tell ya. He was such a pain in the ass that I finally stopped trying to record around him and instead stuck a mic in front of him. You should have seen his face the first time he heard himself caw through a PA system!! Then he loved it and you could NOT shut him up. So hell, I just went with it- he, perched atop a door, and the mic stand up as high as it could go, and I just went through the rhythm guitar track. It cam out great! Now, that analog 8 track has been digitally re-mastered (the '5th Street Alley' CD), and I expect to lift spikes voice, resurrect him from the dead, and put it on this new track. Native Americans call crows 'messengers from the other side' or across the void. This will be an excellent example. Frank, where the F are you man?? Oh well, back in for more rehearsal!  Miss you Spike!


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SOS

10/15/2013

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Jammed at the Avila Community Center with the Troublemakers for Surfrider Foundation and had some fun. The '59 reissue strat sounded great thru the Peavey Stereo Chorus 212. Someday I hope Greg will learn the bass line to Rainbow.

photo: Sandra Brazil

Meanwhile, back in the studio...

Frank came in and we layed down the rhythm guitar line to 'Woodstock', a version once I did analog back in Huntington Beach, 1994. That version is on my '5th Street Alley' CD, features my crow 'spike' but lacked drums. So I'm doing it in digital 16 track this time around. I'm rehearsing the bass line today and the ball of my right thumb is crying!

I tuned down 1/2 step, as I always did for this song, for vocal purposes. It's worth it, or I just would opt out of doing this song. It really rocks. So did the last tune, a cool dance version of Jumpin' Jack Flash. This one will make 4, so the new CD is almost halfway done. Can't believe it really, seems like I just finished the last CD, 'Bluebird' (aka 'Blue Ray Castaway'). Let the record companies figure it out. :)

OK, stay frosty- we ain't gonna stop 'till we reach the top!

-joey racano
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    Hey. I'm joey racano, a musician with a blog and really, isn't that fun? :) I love dogs. I love good food and beautiful people and I adore all things nature. And I really really like guitars and guitar people!

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