Are You Done? - AndyR Original

[Blooby]

This is bloody fantastic. Has your voice recovered? Should I send flowers?

Blooby

[Blooby]

Listening again and just blown away. great production and the last part of that slide solo is killer.

Blooby

[Redler]

Wow! Top class guitar playing and your voice is just perfect on this kind of Rockn' roll! Brilliant!

[Jarle]

This is really good. I love the solo.

[Tangled Wires]

Yet another belter and whilst I love everything here, I have to single out the vocal which is just beyond good and loving that rasp and attitude in the delivery...did you smoke a load of fags before recording this??? 

Picked up one them wonderful harmonies on the second listen, and I do like the occasional placing of the "ooo's" and "ahh's", they give a the song a wonderful lift whether backing the lead vocal or lead guitar.

Bounces along beautifully, and the new guitar sounds very happy in your capable hands!

Nice one!

[Flash Harry]

This makes me want to buy a LP. I have never wanted an LP. Ever. Not even Slash made me want to have a Les Paul.

[AndyR]

Cheers folks

Panic not about the throat - this sort of stuff comes real easy to me, especially as I've got older, and it's not sung that loud really. I did guides for the Billy part (low, slightly left) then sang the Dusty part (high, slightly right). The Dusty part took just enough out of the throat to add "more authenticity" to the Billy part when I redid it.

I've been impersonating these guys in private for years - I just don't tend to record it very often!

I love how the Gibbons and Hill vocals interact, especially on their earlier stuff. I can do both voices, but I always thought it would be really difficult to recreate the interaction, being just one guy on his own - but it was surprisingly easy, in fact it probably helped in the writing of the lyrics. I just thought "duet" - Billy starts with a few choice statements then Dusty kicks in belting out something that adds to the picture, then they meet up towards the end of a verse.

I was going all out for ZZ Top, I could probably have made it sound even closer, most of their earlier recordings have strats and teles all over them, as well as Pearly Gates the Les Paul, to create different textures (eg. the famous La Grange riff is actually a strat - I have a strat that makes that very sound). If I'd used different guitars for different parts it probably would have sounded less "thick" and possibly even better... but I was digging Lucy the Les Paul too much

Flash Harry - yeah, Slash would never have got me wanting a Les Paul!

I originally wanted one because of Jimmy Page - but the studio sounds I was associating with that fantastic look were made with a telecaster! Then it was Paul Kossoff and Billy Gibbons... and Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson of Thin Lizzy. I've owned various copies over the years, but this is the first real one I've owned. It actually feels more strat-like in sound when you're playing it, but it has that Les Paul "chunk" that lovers of Les Pauls seem to like so much.

Mine's loaded with quite low-power pickups now, and the amp model I was using hasn't got a load of gain. These are quite "sweet" sounding pickups, but I found setting the amp for quite "hairy" and then using pick attack to vary the vibes gets from mellow to snarly in the same performance (it's actually exactly the same settings as I used on Dancing Girl, I just hit the guitar differently).

It does kinda have that "hey THAT'S what a Les Paul sounds like" vibe, doesn't it? And playing it, I don't really feel like I can go wrong once I'm on the right fret!

[Gnasty]

Almost missed this! Love this song! Very full recording. The Les Paul sure has fatness and well the vocals are just top notch professional!
You are sure multi-talented Andy. I always love and enjoy your tunes.

[Groundy]

Ok this time, must need a new Laptop....
Well worth the wait Andy,
This is Tremendous.......
Take a Bow..........


Alex

[Bluesberry]

OnThisDay Bump....This is what I like right here...fantastic bit of Texas roadhouse blues swagger ..... Fantastic