Once I get going, I just can’t stop… still in my feverish froth of musical inspiration, I did another quick recording this afternoon. It’s another piece for the Recording Collective mentioned in the previous entry.
The task was to reinvent one of the other Collective members’ songs in a different style. I decided to use Rick Booth’s song 18 And Over, which created an unexpectedly elegant circle of references… the song is about me setting one of the previous Collective tasks. Rick’s original is in a heavy-ish rock style, but I decided to vandalise his creative effort with some fake gypsy swing…
’18 Champs Elysées’ (3.7MB mp3)
It’s a fairly rough, first-take sort of job (the lead guitar is actually far far from the first take, but it’s improvised, and I did most of it in one pass) and not something I’d try and earn a living from, but I do like to get those ideas down while they’re hot.