Pete Townshend - How Can You Do It Alone скачать видео бесплатно

From Pete Townshend's 2001 compilation Scoop 3.

Pete: "This was put together in a variety of locations while I was gathering songs for the first Warner Brothers Who album, recorded after Keith Moon's death. That turned out to be Face Dances. It began with a Yamaha E70 organ backing track which I recorded through eight separate outputs and then re-routed through various echo delays, dubbing in Reggae style. It is that process that creates the bubbling sound, but also all the interesting percussion 'scattering' sounds over the real drums which were added by Kenney Jones at AIR studios in London one night. The strange bass lilt was created by using the organ's internal drum-box on some quite conventional latin setting, but starting the bar halfway through. The organ track was made at my largest studio, Oceanic in Twickenham. In my studio in Soho I did a real bass guitar part, some handclaps and backing vocals then took the master reel to Burbank where Mo Ostin (chairman of WB) had arranged for me to use a small room in Amigo studios in North Hollywood. Them I added a jazzy guitar or two and mixed it. My 'secret' handclap sound can be heard here. Take a figure of eight microphone and place it with one side of the capsule facing a window or mirror. The other side must face a relatively empty room, it doesn't have to be an echoey room though. Place yourself between the mike and the mirror, turn the mike up until it distorts a little and clap. Depending on how far away from the glass is the mike, and how distorted it is, you will sound like a small, tight group of very funky handclappers.

I quite liked The Who's rendering of this song. Roger sang it really well. But it is probably one of those songs that needed my acidic tone to work without awkwardness. Whichever version is your favourite (and you may hate both of them) it's good to be able to compare. "

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