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from Light Side Of The Dark by Wanman & Floyd

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Words & music by Wanman Shau.

Joe – ‘This is nearly a straight-forward 12 bar but, I used sorta jazzy chords , here and there around each bar change. I wasn’t consciously sure of where I was going with this at first (nothing new there) . I told Tony though, that I was after something slightly sinister/slightly daft so,there was something going on in the back of my head.Throw in some random walking bass but, not everywhere I thought. In my mind this bass would be an important feature. Tony obliged – perfect (one take).Oh! and I forgot to mention that the guitar I used initially to lay down the chords , was about half a semitone flat,which meant turning that track off and Tony had to remember the (not so straight-forward 12 bar) , I went home then – good mornings work!

I wrote the words and recorded vocals -changing lyrics as I went along. Sang an octave lower than I would normally sing( this had as much to do with trying to not annoy the neighbours as it had to do with my artistic vision ) . I resisted the urge to use one of the many FX on the BR 900.

I went for an accoustic effect to keep it jazzy sounding and played in (dare I say ) a less brash than usual manner.

The lyrics: A snap – shot of these Hollywood , American / Italian gangster films where , the people of the neighbourhood , look to the top-dog criminal to “fixes things ” for them. However, the day always comes when he is no longer ‘The Man’.This guy knows that that day has now come.

Back to the music – I had been messing about with my new guitar-synth earlier, I had intended to remove the ‘mess’ but, was then inspired to leave bits and pieces of what I had recorded very low in the mix, it seemed to work ,seemed to add to the underlying tension that’s in the song. (sort of organ-grinder sounding ice-cream van outside) I felt this was working .

Mixed it and that’s that.

Tony – ‘Joe had a good idea of where this song was going to go, he played me a little snippet and revealed his vision! When I put down the bass there was nothing, just a drum beat for timing. So I just played along for five minutes, prayed to God, and passed it over to Joe, it worked !’

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

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