A cover of Judgement Hymn by Theatre of Hate that I recorded using GarageBand many years ago.  It's all recorded using a keyboard, with the exception of the guitar during the final portion of the song.  The drums were a bit of a beast to program and they do no justice to the original, but I'm happy enough with them because I have no drumming background.  The originally obviously doesn't have a piano, but I thought it was kind of cool and gives a Spear of Destiny 1984 touch to it.

SoD Cover Songs

Judgement Hymn

A cover of Don't Turn Away by Spear of Destiny recorded using GarageBand.  It's mostly keyboard with a guitar.

The recording is mostly based around 1984 live versions, and you'll notice some organ bits from the live version featured as a Prisoner of Love b-side.  I went a bit overboard for the solo section of the song, which starts at around 1:32.  The guitar line is playing the sax solo from The Preacher live.  The piano is playing the sax solo from the One Eyed Jacks album.  If you listen hard enough you'll hear an organ, and I want to say that it's playing the sax solo from the Prisoner of Love live version.  Anyway, three different sax solos played at the same time using different instruments.  A bit chaotic but I still love listening to it.

Don't Turn Away

A cover of Aria by Theatre of Hate / Spear of Destiny that I recorded around 2009.  It's all done with keyboards, and I probably should have thrown some guitar on it, but oh well.  I thought it would be cool to do a piano centric version of the song, imagining that's how Neil Pyzer would have played it if Spear had ever done the track live in 1984.

There's this great guitar solo from 3:37-4:08 in the original Grapes of Wrath album version, and I've never heard it any of the live versions, which is a shame.  The sole reason I recorded this cover was that I wanted to capture that bit, although I couldn't figure out how to play it.  Luckily my friend Jacob is a talented musician and he sent me a midi with him playing that section, and I messed around with it.  You can hear the result at about 3:00 into this song.  None of my friends (including Jacob) think that particular guitar solo is any good, which is crazy to me.

Other than that, I don't really recall how I structured the song.  I'm guessing I listened to a bunch of different versions (Ten Years After, Preacher Live) and took some little bits that I liked from them.

Aria

A cover of I Remember by Spear of Destiny that I recorded around 2008.  I always felt that I Remember was a super underrated song, and I think the only time it got played live was during one of the West World Weekends some time around 2013.

I'm pretty sure that I got the chord progression wrong going into the refrain, so apologies for that.  It still sounds correct to my ear when I listen to this recording, but I recall realizing it was wrong after I finished recording.

This would sound good if I put some guitar on it, but as it was I was trying to highlight the piano/organ parts.  One part I always liked about the song was that little piano run toward the very end.  You can hear it here at 4:30 and 4:40.

I Remember

A cover of The Flying Scotsman by Spear of Destiny that I recorded around 2010.  This is one of the few songs that I did that was guitar centric.  The guitar doesn't sound that great because it was just a direct cable from my guitar into my computer - no amp.

I always loved the galloping drum/bass combination in this song and I'm surprised that I halfway did it justice given that I have no drum knowledge and horrible rhythm.  I'm also a fan of the end of the song, which is based on The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lommond.

Astute Spear of Destiny fans will notice that both the intro and outro of this recording are based on the 1983 live version, most widely available on The Preacher Live.  I threw piano on here because I always wondered what the song would have sounded like if the 1984-85 lineup of Spear had played it.

Flying Scotsman

The most amateur of anybody to ever post to SoundCloud likely.  I'm simply sharing some recordings of some favorite songs that I recorded back around 2007-2009 using GarageBand.  Amateur stuff for sure, but maybe someone will enjoy hearing a different take on a favorite song.

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