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Two men battle against the elements to explain, examine and enjoy beloved music - and musicians - to bring underrated masterpieces to the attention of a hostile world. Oh, and 80+ previous episodes exploring the beautiful universe of 10cc.
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Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Sean and Paul feel incredibly lucky and privileged to be able to share these incredible finds, courtesy of the Strawberry Archive. We feel like archaeologists coming back with the spoils! Here’s a deep-ish dive into those two other 10cc tapes we baked for The Great Stockport Bake-off.
This is really a live ‘listening party for two’ where we drool and speculate over three multi-track recordings: Hotlegs’ You Didn’t Like It Because You Didn’t Think of It and 10cc’s Survivor and Tomorrow’s World Today. The first two songs in particular have us raving! The first… well, you’ll have to listen to us change our minds, contradict ourselves and talk nonsense in real time before we wonder out loud about what we might have found. Elementary, my dear McNulty. Not.
Could we have accidentally stumbled across the very first recording that the four members of 10cc ever made together?
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Oh, and Simon Phillips (who’s drumming I love; he does a fantastic trio with Hiromi Uehara and Anthony Jackson!) sounds like his drums are very heavily compressed; you can hear the compressor kick the initial drum hits down, and then the sound of the drum shell rising just after the drum hit. Pretty signature of medium-heavy drum compression.
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Sean said the finished master sounds dull. Could it be that the backing was done on the four track, and that was then mixed down to one track of the 2-track, with the backing vocals done on the other, then that 2-track bounced back over onto a 4-track machine, to leave 2 free tracks? The dullness is a hallmark of bouncing, and mixing down like this would mean that the bass could actually be an overdub onto one of the spare tracks, with Kevin’s vocal on the other?
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Hey chaps, re the “You Didn’t Like It” tape, here’s a theory...
Friday Apr 23, 2021
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