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from STRANGE SONGS TO LISTEN TO (2024 Remaster) by The Santairs

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Lead guitarist, Jerry O’Neill started this particular riff and wanted to do a long jam to it. I picked up the bass and my friend, Sean Crain, played the bongos. We were all about 16 years old at the time and felt it was a great jam. I recorded it on my two track recorder, but like an amateur, (which I was of course) I didn’t set any levels. I just put two microphones around the room and pressed record. What I got was a mess of a recording, with bass massively heavy and bongos out of whack. Jerry played some rockin’ stuff, but it’s pretty much buried in the mix. I used the Audacity music editor to clean it up a bit, but with what I had, it really couldn’t save the recording. I got rid of some the bass rumble and gave it a better EQ, but it was pretty much like the saying of “polishing a turd.” I added some drums to the recording and mixed it down. It was amazingly tight as far as a steady beat was concerned. I did some fade outs for a couple reasons. One, I always wanted to do a Helter Skelter kind fade out like The Beatles did, where it fades 100% out for a bit, then at the end, it seems to do it again before coming back and stopping for good. Also, it helped hide some really, really rough spots in the recording. The song was edited down to 6:29 where it originally topped over 8 minutes. The stuff that didn’t make it in was way too rough to pretend to show anyone. The way it is now is still extremely rough, but it’s acceptable enough to honor my friend, Jerry and his screaming guitar licks. It’s worthy of a listen, but it’s a song I’d love to record for real, but not without my old friend Jerry who I haven’t seen in over 2 decades.
This is song #139. This song was originally written on 7-1-86 during the “Bongos Blues Delight” session.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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from STRANGE SONGS TO LISTEN TO (2024 Remaster), released December 27, 2015
Wayde K. Brown-Jerry O'Neil-Sean B. Crain

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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