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Post by dirtyfaz on Jan 21, 2019 23:52:42 GMT
I just saw this post on the Steve Hoffman forum
and it got me wondering if The Hollies and Ron Richards were doing the same thing, remembering that they were using Abbey
Road at the same period of time.
Anyone aware of any?
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Post by cameron on Jan 22, 2019 17:50:49 GMT
Gasoline Alley Bred is massively slowed down, almost by a whole tone. It completely changes the song and the Hollies were allegedly very unhappy with this at the time. All live performances of it at the time were at the correct key and speed, apart from a 'live' performance on Top of the Pops, where they look quite visibly fed up I always thought.
The Air That I Breathe is also slightly out of key (too slow) and needs a slight nudge on the pitch corrector to bring it back in tune, which I always have to do on my record player if I want to play my guitar along with it.
Would You Believe has all sorts of tape trickery going on. The backing track is slowed down, then sped up and more acoustic guitar added at a higher pitch, then slowed down again for the orchestra to be added, then the vocals added and the final mix sped up again. Very confusing! But this was 1967...
Postcard is sped up too, and the American LP version is slowed down massively.
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Post by moorlock2003 on Jan 24, 2019 11:40:12 GMT
American record companies often would speed up a song when it was released as a single. The "Hot" mix was geared towards radio play.
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