We heard The Bacon Brothers Cover Version of this song not long ago and, said: "Hmmm, Isn't That Nice?" Then, we did a bit of research to realize that this nugget was part of the original score for the "Hair" Rock Musical way back in the day. 

So, we had to try our hand at it. We recorded this tune on a 1950s Kamico Archtop Guitar that was picked up off Craigslist in the summer of 2014. The guitar belonged to a recently departed Westchester County, NY grandfather. His granddaughter put it out on his front porch with bags of his clothes for a Goodwill donation pickup. When we showed up, to pick up another guitar she posted, a Gibson Acoustic, she said we could take the arch top for $5...for repair...or whatever. 

We were convinced this very old guitar would make music once again. However, humble, this is that effort...recorded with no pretense as a simple acoustically-picked guitar and a solitary, sincere and impassioned voice of reason. It's a social commentary and, perhaps a protest song. When we played it back, we imagined this to be a Hair Musical audition tape from a cast member hopeful who, for whatever reason, simply didn't make the cut.

Postscript: In May of 2016, we ReMixed this nugget an eMastered it.
This track is from our slow and low, pit-cooked, nascent, debut on the Barbecue 4X 2 playlist.


Easy To Be Hard - ReMix - Michael Delgorio - eMastered

Everyone loves a good story. We've enjoyed telling them in words, pictures and music. 

Please follow MichaeldelAard here and on twitter @MichaeldelAard. We've long been moved by the rough cuts, bootlegs and demos by storied artists both past and present because they show pure emotion, high creativity unfettered by auto-tune and over-production. The elimination of anything that could remotely resemble anything but a perfect track is not part of this stream. This project is more about spontaneity. You'll find perfectly human imperfections and, spare (lean and mean)demo productions throughout. On occasion, though all tracks were recorded ultra-simply on an iPhone's voice memo app, we would pull a track into GarageBand to add a track or sound effects (as in several of the originals, herein)...but all in all these are low-fat productions that reflect our most basic love for music and storytelling. Nothing more than that. Should a track tickle your ear, we'd be most grateful to here about it. Thanks for the opportunity to share with you. Follows, comments and shares are welcome.