Was organizing some ole band stuff, and ran across a recording of me playing at a wedding years ago.
It all started with kind of a long running promise. My friends Kim n Dave, had prodded me early on " If we get married, youre gonna play our wedding right? I want a rocknroll ceremony!".
I always kidded around, saying "ahh yea, sure, why not" thinking it would pass as just as kind of a joke. Well, theat time came, and Dave hit me up again. "Are you serious?" I asked. "I cant go blasting out all the grammas and aunts, not everyone is gonna have a taste for that."
"Nah man, you promised! Just do it all Jimi Hendrix style, tear it up brutha!" says Dave, not letting go of the issue, and making feedback sounds whilst playin air guitar..
I finally conceded "Well, tell ya what, lemme work on it. I will try to come up with something that will perhaps appeal to everyone, and still get your rock element that you want."
So I broke out the 4 track and tried to put together an arrangement. I needed to think about timing, so made big intro for when the bridesmiads and fellas would be walking down, and then ran that into my version of Here comes the bride.
I laid down some keys for background fiill, for me to solo "live" over top of at event, and then forthe bridal march I laid down an acoustic track, and then the background harmony lead of the melody, of which I would play the higher harmony part "live" along with it.
So everything that you hear, is me playing. All the guitar solo stuff is live, with the aforementioned stuff running on my 4track in the background. This is the recording of the whole thing at the wedding. I aptly named it The Edge of Forever.
I was approached afterward by several of the elders, sayin they had heard what Dave had planned and wasnt sure what to expect from a heavy metal guy, but that they were pleasantly surprised by how it turned out. It was a proud day for me.
Being as the recording was on tape, I thought I'd better go ahead and transfer it digital before something happens to it, as it is the only copy in existence. So thats what I did today. Now that I have it on the computer, I thought I might share with you all.
I hope ya enjoy. :) (h)
(I'll put in comments too in case the blog editor shreds the code)