Anticipation , Hofner Bass, and the Egg

I re-discovered an old Mandy Moore cassette and played it - the covers album with some very tasteful Todd Lundgren and Elton John songs. I was particularly drawn to her version of Carly Simon's Anticipation, and decided that's going to be my test song for some new gear I'm trying out. The first, of course, are the cassette tapes I got from the bowels of Sulit.com.

The second is a ninety-peso egg shaker, which is the percussion of choice for this number :

scrambled please!

Fab!

The third is a Hofner violin-bass! This is the cheap version of the original German made bass of choice by a certain left handed bassist. I really haven't explored it a bit, but it's very light, sounds good, and makes me want to play bass!

So here it is : Anticipation 4 track cover
Very very quick recording, no edits! How can you edit with tape???
Track 1 - vocals / piano
Track 2 - vocals/ egg shaker
Track 3 - vocals / bass
Track 4 - vocals/ guitar

The guitar I used is the Epiphone Casino (of course!)

Pretend Orchestra and Sore Throat

So I worked on this for a good part of the morning.
Just the Instruments
And I found out I sound like Oscar the Grouch (even more so than on other days).

The "cheat" here is that everything was played live into the Korg Kross' sequencer. What's unusual here is I recorded the drums last, finger drumming on the keyboard. I did not want it to sound like a "pop/rock drummer"; but as pseudo-orchestral, contributing more to tone color than rhythm. The rhythm is propelled more by the bass track.

Kristopher's Kross!

The Kross' cello sounds like a nasal clarinet (ugh!). But the neat thing is there's a switch that changes the sound to pizzicato, and I'm able to use that to record the cello track straight through.

There are two guitar sounds buried in the mix - the Casino and the Telecaster Thinline.