This is my cover of Magazine's song "The Light Pours out of Me" (1978) when they had guitarist John McGeoch, who later played with Siouxsie and the Banshees.
I played it on my Fender Violet Deliriums ESM Signature Model Blacktop HH Jaguar, which has Seymour Duncan SH-1 pickups (I have it in the middle position for this one), a killswitch, and some neat-o stickers on the pickguard. (ESM = Explosive Space Modulator.) I select the bridge humbucker and that goes through my Fender Supersonic 22W amp's "Vintage" (clean) channel. I use a combination of fuzz and chorus that is not very common for me -- I don't usually put chorus and fuzz together (I do it in Nirvana "In Bloom" with a Little Big Muff & Neo-Clone, but its very different there). Here, I add fuzz with a red/germanium Mini Fuzz Face and a Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble (first two knobs at 12 o'clock and last two all the way up). In the chorus and bridges I add a TC Electronic Flashback for a string echo ("Lofi" delay patch). For the bent notes in the bridge, I also turn on an MXR Phase 90 with the speed at the lowest setting. To record it, I played along with the mp3 with my computer speakers and amp huddled around a Samson CO1U microphone into my Mac's Photo Booth program, which reverses the image and I don't know how to fix it.
Time flies, time crawls
Like an insect up and down the walls
The light pours out of me
The light pours out of me
The conspiracy of silence ought
To revolutionize my thought
The light pours out of me ...
The cold light of day pours out of me
Leaving me black and so healthy
The light pours out of me ...
It jerks out of me like blood
In this still life heart beats up love
The light pours out of me ...
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