Skye Ladder - 26 July 2012

Session times: 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Lost Horizons

Tonight we were going to record the vocals for Lost Horizons.  The backing tracks were recorded a few months ago, so it was supposed to be a simple vocal session.

Janie did a few vocal run-throughs to get warmed up and so I could set the recording levels correctly.   She did the chorus and verse parts in a couple of takes, but there is a bridge section where the lyrics are "It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright".  If you say that quickly enough you end up with "tits alright", so we decided a lyric change was required.

Janie had been toying with the idea of a less structured approach to this section and had been riffing over the instrumental parts; some of which sounded quite good.  So, while Paul dashed off a quick lyric re-write, we played around with different vocal ideas and effects.  With the new lyrics, we ended up with just vocal and drums which added a very different feel to the song.  I also heard a similar, but more complex, multi-vocal in my head, which we recorded and added to the end of the track.

After all these changes, we agreed the song needed re-recording from scratch as several sections now needed to be altered and some of the instrument parts contained subtle mistakes we hadn't noticed before.  That will have to happen on another session as there wasn't enough time to do it tonight.