slower - live - plean country park - take 09 - january 22, 2012 (stafford)
duration: 1:19
type: active solo over ambient backing
two of the sequences used in the original studio version of slower were set up in a special session, intended for an outdoor performance at plean country park one beautiful scottish winter’s morning. sitting on a bench in the park, I simply started the sequence playing, and recorded a live overdub right there on the spot.
I did ten takes, and after discarding takes 1 through 8 (most were incomplete, not that they were particularly bad) I ended up with the last two, takes 09 and 10, as the final representation of these brief but enjoyable "live overdub" recordings.
both take 09 and take 10 use the same modified “slower” backing track, the only difference being the content of the live solo played each time. I think take 09 is my favourite – the solo just flows in a lovely way, and it’s a nice contrast, to have an active, bouncy, joyful solo, on top of the sombre and serious backing track that is “slower” – a great contrast, and the solo is surprisingly competent, given that I am playing on a tiny screen, outdoors…"not bad for live", as we say in the business…
you can see the live video of this performance on the applicationHD you tube channel here:
tinyurl.com/npcbjg6