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RECORDING RINGO: DAVID GILMOUR

Recording Ringo: David Gilmour So, when last we left, Mark Hudson had successfully pitched our tune “I Think Therefore I Rock N Roll” to the Beatle. We arrived in London to begin our second round(heads) of recording. We tracked this song, like all of them, live. It’s pretty surreal, as you could imagine…..like mushroom tripping surreal…..to be tracking live in a room, hearing an amazingly and intimately familiar drum fill, and look behind you to see it’s Ringo Starr playing drums. The guy who invented those fills. On your song. Wait, it gets funnier. I played the rhythm guitar and led the band through the tune. We get a great take, put it away and I go back to being Engineer Boy as the other guys finish tracking some other songs. Eventually, we finish recording all the basics and move on to overdubs in a week or two. We have a guest coming to play guitar on a couple of songs…actually a few guests. Mark Hudson comes up to me one day, his countenance unusually stoic, however Skittle-like. “Paul, uh, would you mind giving up the guitar solo on our tune to, uh…David Gilmour?”. You really can’t calculate how brief the time was from the words leaving his mouth, reaching my brain via my ears and me replying something to the effect of: “You’re kidding….abso-f’ing-lutely….c’mon, of course….are you serious?!!” Needless to say it was an inspired decision on all counts. I mean, the first guitar solo I ever taught myself was “Money” from DSOTM. I still shut off the lights and listen to DSOTM in my studio. This is some sort of cosmic occurrence, as far as I was concerned. And needless to say, it was some beautiful playing from the most sublime player on the planet. So, as I mentioned before, he tracked a bunch of solos, after he worked out what he wanted, and then asked for ALL of them to be up in the mix. We knew this would happen, for, as Ringo explains in the video below, he did the same thing on the first song he played on. You can see me in the video, talking with Dave…actually probably listening as he instructed me to bring up all 5 takes of the solo. Mind-blowing. And they call this “work”. As referenced in previous posts, there was a distinct difference is what David Gilmour brought to Ringo’s studio as opposed to what Eric Clapton brought: Eric came by himself lugging a small boutique version of a 50’s Fender Tweed Twin amp, and one guitar. Conversely, David Gilmour came with his trusty tech and advisor Phil Taylor. Phil rolled in a guitar road rack containing many of Dave’s most notable and recognizable instruments- the one eventually chosen for the job was his 1983 red Fender Stratocaster ’57 Reissue, featured on many records, tours and guest appearances since A Momentary Lapse of Reason, through The Division Bell. He plugged this into a few amazingly industrial looking Pete Cornish pedalboards, connected with nuclear-proof cabling and connectors, then into a REAL 50’s tweed Fender Twin: volume only set to “3”. When he stopped playing it sounded like bacon frying in a stereo diner, from the old pedals engaged, but, boy, it sure sounded like him when he played. As an addendum…after the record came out, Mark ran into Little Steven, Stevie Van Zandt, who raved about what a great song it was and how it really should have been the single. It matters not, as it was not a single, but that was a compliment of the highest order from a guy who therefore knows rock and roll! I think. www.paulsanto.com www.facebook.com/paulsantomusic www.instagram.com/thatguypaulsanto www.twitter.com/paulsantomusic #davidgilmour #ringostarr #pinkfloyd #beatles #abbeyroad #ericclapton