She Was Dead When I Put Her In The Ground - AndyR Original (Remastered)

[chapperz66]

Wow. Blimey.  Words fail me.  Brilliant stuff.  I will try to be more erudite next time I listen to this - which will be soon.

Paul

[thetworegs]

Back for some more ... i forgot to applaud last time bravo!

[maxit]

Perfect song, catches you from the first line, tom waits will steal it from you if you let him hear it ?

[AndyR]

Hehehe... It's not the first time I've stolen the "vibe" from Tom Waits (there's a thing called Somedays on here somewhere that was a direct attempt at writing a Tom Waits song - maybe even nicking the chords/structure - it's a blues after all - from a song on Mule Variations)

... I've been quiet for the last week or two because I'm struggling with the next song (nearly solved ) ... I very nearly gave up for a bit and recorded another "death" acoustic song. Slightly different to this. It's from 1994 (in fact, there's still 4 or 5 songs from that year that I want to do, and it's already produced several on here, Sleeping With The Ghost, Warriors, Elizabeth's Room).

BUT ... the reason for commenting here... I just took delivery of a matched pair of compact cardioid condenser mics... (Rode M5s) ... OH. MY. GOODNESS.

I've been threatening to buy something like it for YEARS and YEARS... but it seemed a little excessive.

What I've been doing on these "live" acoustic jobbies is stick the vocal through a large Condensor (Rode NT1000), then use a pair of SM57s for the guitar. One on the soundboard, one on the fingerboard. I've done this on many things, it's what I did here for She Was Dead. It results in... well, ok... but it's often a mixing nightmare, and I'm never ever happy...

I've been blaming the room... and just putting up with what I can do...

Yesterday, when the M5s arrived, I set up in the "live singer-songwriter" position with the M5s instead of the 57s... and just slapped down one of the next songs, unrehearsed, to test it out ... it might be a fluke, and I'll never be able to repeat it... but HOLY F...!!! (Flip)

When Mrs R got home, I played it to her... she was "oh my goodness... I can't usually hear a difference when you buy new stuff, but this... wow"

I got some rehearsing to do, and the band thing to complete first, but watch this space!!