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lyle_from_minneapolis wrote: Now watch the next one suck wind.

-Mark

Nah, not likely. That suckin' wind noise you hear will be me when I can manage to get my home recording gear up and running.
JimK

admin wrote:Quite simply put Mark, you are a genius. I like this better than the original. The acoustic guitar work is superlative and the sterling vocals do not hurt either. Thanks for sharing this. Wow.

+1! Great job!

BTW, what acoustic were you playing on that? Was it capoed?

I'll add my vote...2 thumbs up Mark! Very faithful to the original with your own "mark" thrown in. I have been wearing out the RRF 2 CD lately - your 2 tracks show your diversity - Eldorado is one of my faves!

Thanks for sharing - keep 'em coming!

Thanks again guys, and thanks Windchimp!

Gary, I play an Alvarez Yairi. There are four acoustic guitar parts here in my recording. The main riff is capoed to the 2nd fret so you can play F# in the E position (I capoed the '72 Rickenbacker 4001 in stunning Burgundyglo with full-width MOP inlays and checkerboard binding, too. ). The second guitar is also capoed and strums the basic chords in kind of a drone. A third un-capoed guitar comes in just before "And here's to you", hitting the real open E while the capo guitars play it in a D figure. And the fourth guitar plays the occasional accents and flourishes. My guess is the studio version was a live take with three acoustics, and the droning guitar also took the little leads.

Cheers!

-Mark

Thanks, Mark!