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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.
After we finished recording this song circa 1990, I kept the original one inch master tape. In 2006, I gave the tape to Ken Fordyce, engineer of Mirror Sound Studio located near Seattle. He was able to transfer the song onto a digital format so we could continue adding overdubs of various percussive instruments. (Ken contacted Kearney on how to "bake" the tape at the proper temperature and time.) After that, I took a copy of that song and put it in the Audacity program and mixed it into final form. This song has seen more studios than any other song I've dealt with, and technically, I didn't write it, only helped arrange it. I performed the guitar on a '63 Fender Jazzmaster. I forget the amplifier I used, but it was my father's and it was the one he wanted me to use to record with since it had an authentic early 60's sound; and I believe the amp was made back then as well. It has been, however, long since gone for it caught on fire a couple years later and was discarded.
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 maracas and guitars, Sean Crain on tambourine and bass, Bill Fletcher on drums, Nick Wilcox on all other percussion.
My father wrote this song. He wrote it for my mother. I came up with the title, so for that, I can be given credit. I probably had 5% to do with this, besides the performance, and my father wrote the rest. This is song #8 that was written, originally title "Theme for the East and West." It's been around since as far back as 1984 and the original recording was done around 1990. I remember writing the entire bass part to this song and suggesting to the drummer to play the entire set, using everything, from all the toms to the cymbals.

Recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle, WA. and Mirror Sound Studio in Shoreline, WA.

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from The Santairs Presents: FIRST OFFENSE​-​-​REIMAGINED (2024 Remaster), released May 18, 2014
Wayde K. Brown-Clinton L. 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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