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| From | garypig@aol.com |
| Subject | Was It Live, or Was it..... |
| Date | Wed, 09 May 2007 03:26:41 -0400 |
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<< I was watching The Who on Smothers Brothers at the beginning of
'The Kids
Are Alright' - and it seemed like they were playing to a tape - but it
was
obviously not the studio version of the song. Did they used to record
the
audio before the show and then lip-synch to their own performance - or
was I
just seeing incorrectly? >>
Alot of bands
(Who on Smothers,
you betcha you bet, Lee)
would either supply the show
with a specially pre-recorded quarter-inch tape
they'd sing and/or play along to for broadcast,
or, in the case of the Mamas & Papas (et al)
on Ed Sullivision in particular,
they'd simply sing along with, or should I say atop,
the actual records themselves
.......resulting in double, triple, quadruple-tracked vocals !!
(FOW on LLS ?)
Now the Sixties Stones, perhaps uniquely,
would often supply Ed, Shindig etc.
with instrumental mixes of their hits,
which they'd then sing Live to during broadcast:
I know,
coz I still have safely stored in my mother's Canadian basement
vinyl bootlegs of a buncha instrumental Stones tracks
("Paint It Black," "Ruby Tuesday"......)
which vary only slightly from the finished masters.
I'm assuming these were rough vocal-less versions
mixed at the sessions themselves strictly for TV purposes.
Whatever the case may be,
they make for Fascinating headphone listening
(eg: you can hear Keith whispering off the breaks
for the Ruby cello),
Gary "Loog" Gold
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