OUTSTSANDING Work...one foot in Beatles world, one foot in the land of Steely Dan. .Bravo!

Has a classic feel, agree with Ruby LaRue on the influences.  Masterfully performed and mixed!

Great song - looked the musical crucible up on youtube and I found this song there, it's very nice

I read your profile and I am interested to know more about you and about Sun Tower and how the collaboration between their members and soundcloud contributors work, and can I become one ?

please listen to what do to get to know me also

very nice (beatles sounding) well studied harmonies and chords. Thsi song bring up memories

What a fun listen! Thanks for sharing this!

Terrific tone and vibe! Oh and the melodies really get me.

@fingerstyle_guitar: Thanks man - out of all the collabs I've done, this is near the top of the list for sure!

@sunnidayz: We thank you! so glad you enjoyed!

This one is clearly inspired by The Beatles during their Rubber Soul/Sgt. Pepper's phase and started with the rhythm guitar parts for the verse and chorus. I forwarded those bits off to Greg and he added drums, bass and a new part that had a Strawberry Fields vibe to it. I went back and redid my rhythm guitar parts as a stereo double and Greg asked me to have a go at the bass in the verse and chorus. With those parts now in good shape, Greg added slide guitar and vocals and fired a rough mix back to me where I added the guitar harmony and solo part starting just past the 2 minute mark. From there Greg did the final tweaks on the instrumentation and did the mix and master. Greg used the Abbey Road plugin for the mastering phase which emulates the old Studer-designed reel-to-reel tape machines which George Martin used in the studio. George would bounce tracks back and forth between these tape machines to create the multi-layered songs that the Beatles were famous for during that time which broke new ground and set the standard for modern multi-tracked recordings. I highly recommend this plugin for application to digital recordings as it seems to remove the brittleness that is inherent with today's digital recording technology without losing the definition of the sound or making it sound dull.

You're You - Greg Hurley / Dave Friend

A crucible is a little ceramic pot used by chemists to mix chemicals in. The Musical Crucible is a cloud that is specifically for collaborations between members of Sun Tower and other SoundCloud contributors, maintained by Dave Friend of Sun Tower. Thanks for stopping by - here's some of the folks who we've collaborated with:

http://soundcloud.com/emma-shanley
http://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown
http://soundcloud.com/amanda-woollett
http://soundcloud.com/vladaroo
http://soundcloud.com/don-beekeeper
http://soundcloud.com/joe-harper-2
http://soundcloud.com/gregory-m-hurley
http://soundcloud.com/dunlooser
http://soundcloud.com/jaime0223
http://soundcloud.com/thomasschmid-5
http://soundcloud.com/vapmok
http://soundcloud.com/brian-sanders
http://soundcloud.com/kelsey17
http://soundcloud.com/through-the-wire

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