HEY JOE!

[toomanycats]

[tlarson58]

Tasty! Nice artwork, too. It took me a second to see it.


What gear did you use and what was the recording process like?

[toomanycats]

Tasty! Nice artwork, too. It took me a second to see it.


What gear did you use and what was the recording process like?

The guitar was a 2001 American Series Strat with Van Zandt pickups. I used the my 65 Amps London on the Marshall input, mic'd with a Shure 57. No pedals, the guitar is going straight into the amp with some mild eq, compression, and a little bit of reverb applied in Logic.

The bass was my Harley Benton JB-75 Jazz, going into A Golden Age Pre73, then an Apogee Duet, then into Logic using the 60s pick style bass amp setting.

The drums are all programmed in Logic. I tried to get as close as I could to Mitch Mitchell's fills, but those suckers are difficult to program.

The singer is in my main band and we've just started a songwriting partnership on the side. It was the first time we got together to record and I suggested we tackle a simple cover we both knew, just to break the ice, have fun, and warm up into it. I often do that when first working with a singer. That "kid" (he's 24 years old, which is a kid to me) nailed it on the first take. I had him do one pass of the first verse just to set the levels, then we started over and her sang that entire song all the way through, exactly as you hear it. I tracked his vocal through a Audio-Technic AT2020.

We also tracked an original song which is going to be pretty amazing, though I'm not quite ready to release it. It still needs some tweaking in the arrangement.

[mozz]

Wasn't hey joe a cover when Jimi did it?

[toomanycats]

Wasn't hey joe a cover when Jimi did it?

Yes, this is true. There is some dispute over who actually wrote it, though a guy named Billy Roberts registered a copyright on it in 1962. However, like a lot of old blues songs, it was being performed as a public domain song long before this, and long before Hendrix made it famous.

[tonebender]

Nice work! I always liked that song.

[mozz]

Wasn't hey joe a cover when Jimi did it?

Yes, this is true. There is some dispute over who actually wrote it, though a guy named Billy Roberts registered a copyright on it in 1962. However, like a lot of old blues songs, it was being performed as a public domain song long before this, and long before Hendrix made it famous.

For many years i thought that Jimi was the writer and original performer of that song. Forget where i read that it was a cover song. Also learned that "Cum on feel the noize" was done by a band called Slade. They never got any airplay here, only Bowie from that era.

[tonebender]

Slade was a good band.

[artandsoul]

Guitar sounds great! I get a srv vibe from your cover sound.
It seems to me almost all bigger rock bands most popular songs are a cover and most didnt know till years later.

[Partscaster]

Nice singing, too.

[RedLesPaul]

I loved it! The singer reminds me a bit of Oni Logan in some of his phrasing choices and the way he ends some of his lines. Your guitar playing as always was killer. Hope you're well.

[jhull54]

Love it. Raw and right to the point. Really enjoy straight ahead stuff like this.