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of Work: |
Around the Universe in 80 Days
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Words
By:
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Dee Long
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Music
By:
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Dee Long |
Lead
Vocal:
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Dee Long |
Backup
Vocals:
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Dee Long |
Instrumentation:
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Dee:
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Piano, synthesizer, organ,
electric guitar
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John:
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Bass guitar (fuzz)
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Terry:
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Drums, tambourine, triangle
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Recorded
At:
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Toronto Sound Studios
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Recording
Period:
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September 1976 - February 1977
(mixed in May 1977)
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Initial
Release Date:
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September 1977 ("Hope" album)
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Remarks:
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On July 6, 1976 a demo version
of this track was recorded at Toronto Sound Studios during the group's
rehearsals of new material for the "Hope" album. The basic tracks of
this demo recording consisted of two separate takes of Dee playing
grand piano.
In September 1976 production on the master version of this track
commenced with producer Terry Brown engineering. After recording
several takes of new piano it was decided that the piano performance on
the previously recorded demo was in fact better and consequently the
"demo" piano was transferred onto the new master recording.
The "space choir" heard at the beginning of this track was created
using a separate piece of 24-track tape. Each of several different
vocal parts was recorded individually onto separate tracks, and in some
cases enhanced with various echoes and delays. The resulting multitude
of voices was then mixed down to stereo and transferred ("flown in
wild") onto two tracks of the 24-track master recording.
The Rickenbacker 4001 bass was patched directly into a "Neve" console.
To achieve the "fuzz tone" effect, producer Terry Brown boosted the
console's input gain control to above-normal level thereby adding
distortion to the incoming signal.
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