Chairman Ralph wrote:Thanks for your thumbs-up, Marky: half the fun of doing these things is figuring out what elements will work with what.
On Cool Under Heat, for instance, the guitar tabs that I've seen give the changes as B-E-F# -- but I went with the A-D-E trifecta, which (IMO) is brighter and suits the overall vibe of the song better. This sets up the contrast between the B-Em and B-A sections.
For Three Card Trick, I thought it important to keep the choppy reggae vibe -- I remember hearing some ska band doing it (their name escapes me at the moment) -- and they totally eliminated it, which didn't sound quite right to these ears.
I particularly enjoyed your remixes of Life Is Wild and We Are The Clash -- they turn both of those songs inside out! And I'd say that your version of Play To Win gives that track a coherence that's not quite apparent from its original recorded incarnation...if ever an album lent itself to such treatment, CTC is it.
Yep that solid ska/choppy reggae feel works well with the track. I would love to hear a full acoustic version of the entire album.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
Okay. Not enough of the original music and/or lyrics for me, I think.
Shades of Combat Rock, too...
You wanna make a mix ....feel free.
That was the whole idea of that track "We Are The Clash". I was looking for the interview where Strummer says The Clash could exist without any of the original members because The Clash were an idea not a band. It's on that Wolfgang's site but as you have to pay to join now I gave it a miss.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
Okay. Not enough of the original music and/or lyrics for me, I think.
Shades of Combat Rock, too...
You wanna make a mix ....feel free.
That was the whole idea of that track "We Are The Clash". I was looking for the interview where Strummer says The Clash could exist without any of the original members because The Clash were an idea not a band. It's on that Wolfgang's site but as you have to pay to join now I gave it a miss.
*Idly considers finding audio of Joe, Paul, Vince, Pete, and Nick each saying "the Clash", and playing around with that..*