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Picture This – the history

Picture this was written in the mid-nineties (post Modern Logic) for/about my best friend, who died of congestive heart failure – at 21. The age difference mattered, but it didn’t. The art mattered. The photographs, the paintings, the music: Life.

The melancholy, ethereal nature of PT is accentuated by the sharp chordal chorus – at once dreamy and angry at the same time. Asking questions that will never be answered.

First performed with Cowgomoo, PT has changed little over time.

Picture This – recording

Recorded originally live acoustic for the “album that never happened” with me and JR set up in the main room of Studio 607. PT received the most overdubs, and experimentation, including having feedback throughout the course of the entire song, that may or may not have had a positive influence on the final version. The “album that never happened” does exist, but was put on infinite hold to make way for the much louder, raucous electric “small” recording by the full band.

Acoustic Picture This will be made available soon (TBA) as a direct download for members of TobeFare.com.  

All of the “small” sessions featured the one room paradigm. After a few passes, we had the basics done (drums and bass) Even though we record to a click, our natural rhythms weave in and around the beat, yet is brought into sync by a loop of JR on the triangle (an attempt at a nod to Peter Gabriel).

Guitar day was super fun during this song, using the phenomenal selection of amplifiers supplied by Studio 607, set up in the main room, and my PRS. It was truly a wall of guitar.  Picture This required a little layering in the chorus, to get the desired punch, but not much else to muddy up the mix.

Mac also got additional passes to add to the bass melody.

All vocals were also done in the main room, with no background or doubling vocals, because of the intimacy of the song.