"Hand Guns" - Randy California cover by 64Guitars and oldrottenhead

[Oldrottenhead]

haha not a wrestler, in fact as a teenager he was in jimmi hendrix's band. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_California


he was a guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the original members of the rock group Spirit, formed in 1967. he died a few years back in hawaii, he and his son where caught in a riptide and he threw his son to safety but drowned as a result.

he wrote hand guns about 1981, as relevant today as it was then, it was released on a british label ,  dont think it was ever released in the usa, but was released as a single over here. there is a toned down version called toy guns, i think in an effort to get airplay and not upset anyone stateside.

anyway all the kudos on this go to 64guitars, it was a joy to hear the song at it's various stages. and yes he put a hell of a lot of work and effort into this one.

take a bow 64.

cheers

[64Guitars]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

What did you use for the drums 64?

As Gnasty guessed, I used Hydrogen. It offers a good variety of drum kits. The one I used is called UltraAcousticKit.

For the rolls, I used my Yamaha keyboard which has a snare drum roll mapped to one of the keys in the percussion patches. I recorded a sample of that key into my BR-864, then exported it to a WAV file and pasted it into Audacity where needed.

I also used the Yamaha for the string sounds. All guitars are my Godin xtSA with effects from the BR-864, and the bass is my Gibson EB0.

All mixing was done in Audacity.

[Hilary]

Just perfect boys, well done.

[chunk]

Haven't heard this song before but sounds great

[AndyR]

Nice work guys! Great sounding track

I'd not heard it before either... but I did know exactly who Randy California was (and I knew of the title for some reason).

[Geir]

New song for me too, but this is just excellent.


The performance and the production of this is so good! If played on the radio NO one would expect it to be other than a professional recording.

--->piPod

[64Guitars]

Thanks folks. For those of you who aren't familiar with it (I wasn't either until oldrottenhead proposed that we cover it), here is the studio recording by Randy California:

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And here's a video of him performing the song (embedding disabled so I'm just providing the link):

http://youtu.be/jQKXLc6nN3o

[Burtog]

I'm not familier with the track but really enjoyed it, a polished job all round!!

[alfstone]

This one sounds perfect to me.

Alfredo

[SE]

Just terrific cover and recording magic listen, top stuff!!