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Love If I Could

from Light Side Of The Dark by Wanman & Floyd

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Words & music by Tony Floyd Kenna.

Tony – ‘I read a headline in the Sunday Times magazine ‘Love In A Cold Climate’. It was late in the evening and I was heading for bed. Taking it to refer to an emotionally cold situation I quickly wrote the songs chorus followed by the first verse and half the second. Never actually read the article, so whether it was about emotional coolness, love at the North Pole or Innuit courting customs I still don’t know. The words of the chorus suggested how the tune had to go, bit like Cream I thought. So this meant there would have to be a good riff and some interesting drums, as well as awesome guitar of course. By the time I got up on Monday I pretty much had it all worked out in my head. By noon I had the basic arrangement down, Bass, Rhythm, Riff guitar, drum pattern. As the second verse was only half written I simply recorded it with some lines from the first. Once I played back the basic track the rest of the second verse came to me so I popped that in. I thought it was beginning to sound good but needed a lift in the chorus. Double tracking the vocal did it. This is where the gift of rarely singing the same thing the same way twice paid off. I was able to get close to the lead vocal but not exactly the same. I think this gives it a bigger sound and adds to the dynamic. No lead guitar on it yet but I could hear it in my head. Sent an mp3 off to Joe to have a listen and work up a few ideas. We would meet on Friday and finish it. Fine tuned a few bits during the week and bought the chocolate biscuits for Friday. When Joe arrived we set up and had a quick run thru’. Ready to record, but I was really mean to Joe and wouldn’t let him hear the count in ! I had this vision of the lead guitar sort of swooping in like an eagle and grabbing the song by the neck. The song starts and Joe nails it in one take, time for some backing vocals. Bit of experimenting on these but it quickly came together. All that was needed now was to mix it. This was actually quite easy as I usually try to record things the way I want them to sound and basically mix as I go. The ending was the only tricky bit, bit of unwanted sustain here and there.

Joe – ‘ Yes , Tony had everything worked out on this one, more or less. I just added some mad guitar and backing vocals but, we were both happy enough with it. Then more work for Tony as he enginerred it as only he can!

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from Light Side Of The Dark, released September 25, 2011

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