This is a story about 2 weeks in my little demo studio/house a few years ago, I explain the song at the end of this post.It was chaos as they took over the place but I met,and played with, some amazing people and remet some at the wake/jam after the funeral of Gary Pickford Hopkins and recently at 2 more. SO I thought I'd post it as my tribute to Gary, Alb and Stroudie.
HEY YOU well Tank was waiting for me he was sitting so cool at the bus stop
and Dai was there but he said he and his girl would rather be in bed
we started rocking and things soon started moving in the hallway
and there she was holding some cakes in the doorway
no need to turn the history pages
the kings of rock, the rock of all ages
"hey you" say what you're gonna do
i said "hey you" you gotta stop you cant play all day and all the night too
Ian was there leaning on the chair doing the mixing and fixing
said i just been with Zappa to the chick and the rapper they just smiled so sweet
a 12 string fender with strings a resonating to ascreaming and the pleading from the steel guitar wailing
a violin played in the background so sweet
it was time for sleep
SOLO
an angel brought us the food of love
"hey you" say what you're gonna do
"hey you" say what you're gonna play
"hey you" what you're gonna do right
i said "hey you" you gotta stop you cant play all day and all the night too
SHUT UP
***** Song Summary *************
Style is POP60_SW.STY (Pop 60's Swing 8ths - 60's Brit)
Style MIDI Instruments are : Emu Proteus piano, Real guitar', Plex strings, Fl Studio 10 Cubase sx 1
Title: hey you
melody track has 44 notes,
Style is POP60_SW.STY (Pop 60's Swing 8ths - 60's Brit)
Style MIDI Instruments are : Emu Proteus piano, Real guitar', Plex strings, Fl Studio 10 Cubase sx 1
Soloist is saved with the song : Fats Waller (108)
Style is also DADGAD1.STY (DADGAD - alternate guitar tuning)
Style MIDI Instruments are : Acoustic String Bass (33), Nylon String Guitar (25), Acoustic Guitar (26),
RealTracks in song: ~~372:Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Hank Sw 120
MIDI Drums :1 Standard Drum Kit (1)
I wrote the words and song over the following year and did a rough BIAB version which sat lonely and forgotten until a month or so ago! I used a VS1680 and Cubase SX1 with many guest musos as mentioned above. We recorded 10 songs somehow!
Tank was a session drummer who got lost and I had to lead him to the house from the the bar across the road from the local bus station' it took 15 mins to walk there but 4 hours to get home after a beer or 12!, We rang home for a sober driver for his car full of his drums!
Dai was Steve Williams drummer of
Budgie whose wife Angels (real name) was a Californian in the mould of Mama Cass, hell of a voice and a mean cook! Angels also cooked some cakes *licks lips*. The name Dai says we were ALL Welsh and in Wales.
Ian, forgotten surname' worked with Zappa in the 70's and entertained us with stories about that great man. He was the Boss recordist and I was the gopher.
The
chick was Billy Thompson's girlfriend and the rapper didn't exist it just rhymed.
The
12 string Fender was a purple pearlesque stratocaster owned by Rob that I had my eyes on, and so his on me!. He was the leader of this concept album.
Can't remember the name of the
Pedal steel guitarist but boy could he make you laugh and cry with his playing. I fell in love with pedal steel guitar thanks to him
Violin was
Billy Thompson who played violin with John Hinesman and Barbara Thompson and does Gypsy Jazz now.
Jams occurred every night and into the morning and would only stop when the ones trying to sleep, or my neighbours!, got angry.
hence the shut up.
We took breaks and often stories were told as we sat around and one day one of my cats strolled in and went to sleep on the cushion in the Steve's open kick drum. I noticed and didn't think of telling him as we listened to the story.He had a chain linked double bass drum pedal and to emphasise a point his feet went berserk with a bass drum roll. Cartoons ARE true 'cos the skeleton of the cat left the room first followed seconds later by the skin, swerving and jinking the legs, guitars, beers and leads like a professional. laugh! HAHAHAHA the cat has never fully recovered and never goes in that room to this day! It didn't come back in the house for weeks and is now a total neurotic wreck. Poor lickle pussy but HAHAHAHAHAHA
Alyn
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