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This song was recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle by legendary engineer, Kearney Barton (who recorded The Kingsmen "Jolly Green Giant" of "Louie, Louie" fame, The Sonics "Psycho", The Frantics "Werewolf", and many others.) It was an 8 track analog studio, recorded onto 1 inch reel tape.
This song was completed in a few takes. This particular take had one bass mistake that I was able to minimize digitally. It was recorded live with the lead guitar, bass, and drums. The cowbell and rhythm guitar was overdubbed later that session. I especially liked the sound I was able to achieve when it came to the lead guitar, a kind of mix between the 60's spaghetti western and the surfing guitar sounds.
To finish off this particular mix, I had to convert it from a cassette format onto the Audacity program on my computer with a JVC TD-W254 Double Cassette Deck 3 motor Silent Mechanism.
The players: Wayde Brown (me) on guitars, Sean Crain on bass, and Dan Penland on drums and cowbell.
This, the 185th song that I wrote, was inspired by the spaghetti western movies of the 60's. Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone were a big influence in the sound of this recording. I picked the year 1879 since I felt it was one of the last years that America had the "old West" feel; the kind of stuff movies are now made of when they make westerns. The first gas driven automobile came out and a new era began. With every 10 songs I wrote, it seems I wrote 2 avant-garde and one instrumental song soon afterwards. I like the purity and simplicity of the guitar work in this song, driven heavily by the bass riff.

Recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle, WA.

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from MINE​-​-​ALL HAIL THE CHIEF (2024 Remaster), released May 4, 2014
Wayde K. Brown

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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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