The original idea was to play a slow blues to allow Charles to play what he wanted . Charles has quite abroad influence but is a massive Hendrix fan . The track wasn’t worked out but it was gonna be a 12 bar blues slow heavy and I was going to include the lyrics.
'It was on a Wednesday evening. I thought I heard you call. I thought I heard you crying but it wasn’t you at all.'
We played through the first take completely live, but there wasn’t an opportunity to sing the lyrics and I didn’t want to break the flow.
We went for a second take and exactly the same thing happened 😵💫
I asked to go for a third so I could try and get lyrics into make it a complete song and Charles said he couldn’t play again at that level of intensity .
Okay, no worries.
The following session we pretty much started with it and I got the lyrics in, but it was more like mannish boy . It was on a Wednesday evening, da da da da.
It’s steamed along completely live and Damon (long standing Predatür recording engineer/producer) came rushing in when we finished it going fucking hell that was fucking awesome ❤. Wednesday evening was sorted and it would follow 'She Said, She Said'.
However, this song is really about Charles and his blues playing
So I said to him you’ve got three versions there you pick the one you want and we’ll put that on the album .
His actual choice was for for the first take.
Which I’d made quite a pig off of playing 😵💫 I think I’d hit a compressor and couldn’t shut my guitar down quick enough.
But this track is about him, so we went with that
And a few weeks later, when you listen back to the tracks, it was the the right version to put on the album. It has something qualities that can never be repeated. I remember Jack dropping completely off dead and it almost stopped and I couldn’t quite see him because he had his head down and wasn’t paying attention and I almost lost it, it was pulled so much when it shut down and nobody knew it was gonna happen apart from Charles was in clear sight of Jack and I wasn’t. 😂😵💫
It occurs to me. I’ve got the other two versions and if I can, I will try and put them up so you can give them a listen.
Anyway, this is Wednesday evening without the lyrics
And subsequently we had to tag the lyrics on the back of 'She Said, She Said'
But because we’d actually finished that song 1 bar too early to get all the lyrics in so I ended up singing the first two lines and then blasting a little tiny bit of lead over the end with my white telecaster.
You sometimes have to live right in the moment and have faith in it
Anyway, enjoy
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