The latest dose of my Tom Petty obsession.

This one goes out to my girl , my beautiful Jenny Catherine Harris on our 10 year wedding anniversary  ... that thing we never seem to remember ;)


Big love and thanks to Phil Doublet for all his magic

Face In The Crowd_Cover

Vocals - Anton Harris and Melissa Partridge.
Guitars , Keys and Bass - Phil Doublet.
Drums - Anton Harris.



Tracked and recorded remotely - 2022 ( All hail the internet ;)

Good Clean Fun - Cover

Going back to when the world was on edge in Lockdown #1 ...  Phil Doublet, Andy Gilmour , Nick Jones and myself dipped our toes into a new world of remote multi-tracking / file sharing stuff , after all , we couldn't do much else and the collective musical beast needed to be satisfied !! 
Somehow the mixing / engineering got put on my plate (?), I mean ... I'm an okay-(ish) live sound engineer but studio stuff is a whole different beast. Was I up to it ? Didn't matter at the time so I did it all the while thinking ' yeah ... piece of piss .... easy! '
Recently I was going through old sessions on my audio drive and came across this song, loaded it, played it and then basically I hung my head ...  WTAF was I thinking back then ???

After thinking about it, I probably wasn't 'thinking' that well.  A good friend had just taken his life and with the ongoing Covid shit going on things were (more than just) a bit of a blur.

Anyway ........ moving onto happier times. Here we all are, still alive and doing okay.
I've studied long and hard about studio stuff and I'm more than happy with this effort.
What's the song about ? Here's the word from Joe Bonamassa and co that wrote it and cut it.

 **The song is inspired by Wallace Hartley (the violinist and band leader on the Titanic).
Says Joe Bonamassa, “The fact that he played everyone off the ship to the detriment of himself brings you back to a more selfless time in our history. I don’t believe the conditions are around in 2017 for something or someone like that to step forward and be recognized.”**

Musicians -
Phil Doublet - Guitar and vocals
Andy Gilmour - Bass, Mandolin and Guitar 2
Nick Jones - Violin, Piano and Flute
Me - kit and noise.

Last Song For My Resting Place - Cover

Under Cover - Live at the Australasian Hotel, Greymouth.

Blammers - Bass, Vocals
Jordy - Guitar , Vocals
Antz - Drums , Vocals

Under Cover   Live At The Aussie 2023

Originally tracked, mixed and mastered by Nigel Jenkins in 2002. Thankfully Nigel is an avid archivist as without him I could not have achieved this re-birth.
With hindsight, and many more years of drumming now behind me, I just couldn't listen to my playing , and more specifically my tuning ) from back then and manage a smile while listening to the old mix but with the beauty of technology and Nigels habit of backing up I had an idea to put fresh kit down and rebuild ..... So here it is.
Apart from the new drums I also added extra BV stuff as I heard the original on the radio t'other day and heard some ''Ahhhhhhhs '' in the pre chorus so I slapped those down here as well (for authenticities sake of course).
Nigel contributed to the arrangement by adding his wayyyyyyy cool synth stuff in the middle 8. It was during the recording of this that I got hooked on the recording process. Pro Tools was still shiny and (relatively) new back then BUT also way beyond my financial capabilities so I headed out and bought an old PC tower, secondary dedicated audio drive, a sound blaster audigy and Cool Edit Pro then it was off to the races !!!
Nigel patiently put up with endless phone calls and texts from me asking " How Do I ... ?" , " What happens if ... ?" and, last but not least , "Waddya frikkin mean the snare can't be F-----G LOUDER !!! ????" to which he always patiently replied " Well you can't just keep turning things up".
I've forgotten what our band was called at that time but we were one of many hitting the busy Dn Pub scene at that time. For my musical mates down there I hope it all comes roaring back again with haste !!
I had the idea of putting this track down after working at Nigels Place on an originals project with 'James Whylie And The Nomads' so he was first port of call, and also the ONLY person I knew that could do this recording thing.
Personnel - Guitar - Gary Mark
Bass - Lindsay Jenkins
Me - Drums , Vocals
Nije - Tracking, mixing, mastering and synths.

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