really cool post
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Today
Butch Vig on recording the intro: "Billy is a GREAT guitarist....some of the parts came really fast, others were a struggle: the intro for Today took a LOT of takes to get the perfect sound and feel. Remember, this is before Pro Tools, and that guitar is naked at the start of the song...I think we worked on that 4 bar intro for about 12 hours!!!!"
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this surprised me. 12 hours to record that into bit seems insane. i don't understand what nuances could they possibly be obsessing over for it to require 12 hours
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Originally Posted by he/she/it
Mayonaise
Jeff T:
The feedback guitar the you hear in the pauses in the song was a Kimberely. The pickups were so microphonic and we had Billy play in front of the cab. As a side note, it is also the guitar we used as a drum room mic on the song "Pissant" from Pieces Escariot.
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that is fascinating, i never knew the used a guitar as a drum room mic on pissant.