Hi,
This is one of my earliest songs and over the years there have been a couple of cringey recording attempts with crappy canned drums and other instruments and I kind of forgot about it… One recent afternoon my son brought it up and we took a swing at a fresh take and this is what we have so far… He’s on drums and I did the rest… I’m sitting on 3 full projects that are all 90% done and I have to admit the recent realities of AI and the music business have really taken the wind out of my sails and motivation but this is pretty much done as ‘guitars-only’ mix so I thought I’d post it…
If anyone is interested in the story:
When my daughter was about 4 years old we took a trip to Ottawa (our capital city) and we toured the Parliament buildings and grounds and we stopped to rest in a picnic pavilion. There was a large bus tour of Sikhs sitting on the benches that lined the pavilion and she found the men in their turbans and beards and the women in their colorful salwar kameez garments to be fascinating and she was uncharacteristically not shy about going up to them saying hello and they found her blue eyes and tiny sprig of a white-blonde ponytail on the top of her head to be very amusing. This was long before our current times of large scale immigration so for us being from a small rural area this was simply not a common sight. While I watched them interacting it struck me how they were actually observing each other with wonder and after we came home I couldn’t escape the thought of how if we just could recapture some of that child-like curious wonder about each other what a different world it would be so I wrote this song. Of course that doesn’t automatically make a good song but for me at least there is a clear line between the inspiration and the writing so in that way I take some satisfaction in it.
Guitars are a Fender Baritone telecaster through a Fender Vibrolux amp and our studio Precision Bass through an ancient Traynor monoblock bass amp with an 18" cabinet. Drums are the real ‘Black Pearl’ kit which is pretty much a Studio fixture now. Ardour 8.12 was used and a variety of ACMT, U-he, Fabfilter and ACE Plugins…
Very catchy tune and, as stated by sunrat, quite Tom Petty (meant in a good way, of course…!). Was this mixed in Mixbus or did you stay in Ardour for the whole ride?