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This cat deliberately left blank
“We’ll decide the exact photo and quote later, right now we just need an idea of the layout…”
…well okay then.… Read more
Month: October 2015
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Something else left to lose
The Alan Parsons Project’s 1980 album The Turn Of A Friendly Card is about to be reissued for a second time, this time with even more bonus tracks of rehearsals and songwriting sessions. I really dug the existing reissue from a few years back, which included a fascinating dissection of the seemingly simple song “Nothing Left To Lose”, which is positively folksy next to the usual productions numbers (including the tracks that bracket it on the album in question). Three of the bonus tracks let you hear, in order, the unadorned backing track, an early “guide vocal” sung by Eric Woolfson (who sang the finished version), and some isolated sections of Chris Rainbow’s amazing one-man-multitracked backing vocals. I spliced the three together (which took a bit more surgery than one might expect) to get a more-or-less fully mixed version of these elements, just for giggles.
Listen here:
[audio:https://www.thelogbook.com/earl/podcast/nothing.mp3]
You can hear the (much more polished) original here (Alan Parsons, I ain’t):
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I believe it’s pronounced “throatwarbler mangrove”
Apparently in Chinese I am:
Whether that actually translates to “Earl Green” or perhaps “an earl who is green” or “fat American wanker who keeps sending packaging revisions“, I have no idea. 😆… Read more
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Plan A: switch to Plan B immediately
Business-y thought from an unnecessarily chaotic week at work:
General Patton was absolutely right when he said no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
But that doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility of having a battle plan in the first place.… Read more
