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A mostly acoustic version of Strawberry Fields Forever played live outdoors.
A couple of weeks ago, we did a little jam set on Neil’s back patio. It was nice relaxing scene with a little chiminea burning and some tiki torches as our only sources of light in the darkening summer evening. I played Neil’s dreadnaught acoustic guitar and sang, Neil was playing an assortment of percussion instruments and Jeremy was playing through a little Fender bass practice amp I bought years ago. The recordings were done through a single omnidirectional microphone on the picnic table into my Macbook Pro.
Surprisingly, this setup yielded quite a few songs that sounded pretty solid on the recordings and we’ll be releasing those in the coming weeks.
One of these recordings was a version of Strawberry Fields Forever, by the Beatles.
During the recording of Cover Band, we actively worked to take songs that we enjoyed but play them in a way that we thought significantly differed from the original versions. It was fun to take lyrical ideas from songs we liked and set them in a different environment, perhaps even relaying some different ideas from what the original versions represented.
However, during the last couple of weeks, we’ve worked more on playing some covers in a more recognizable method, utilizing the original artists’ intended melodies and structures. However, we still want to play the songs as ourselves, in our own way, rather than simply mimicking the work of the originals.
This version of Strawberry Fields Forever is one of the results of these attempts.
Original song written by Lennon/McCartney.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 pm
This is a pretty sweet cover
June 30th, 2009 at 6:07 am
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