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Night Circus pt. 2

G.S.: guitars, drums, vocals. Recording info as above. Lyrics written 8/12/80. Music written early 1981.

This is the only song we did where we recorded the drums last. We learned our lesson fast. After five complete takes (and many incomplete ones) we got this one. A friend of mine who had been watching the recording urged me to do one more after #4 just for the hell of it and go really crazy on it, not hold back at all- that ended up being the final version.

The guitar sound used here got to be a trademark for me. It was a combination of effects and tone I hadn't tried before and that first time I dialed it in, it put me right back into a dream I'd had many months before. This sound had been in it. I'd forgotten it and the dream until these tones brought it to mind again. The sound seemed very personal and charged and I've been using it ever since.

The lyrics were some of my earliest; if I recall, Night Circus was my third poem. At the time I couldn't play a melodic instrument at all. But it was only a few months later that I got my first guitar.

When it came time to mix this down, I discovered that one of the vocal tracks had somehow faded very badly and the only way to salvage the song was to re-record that- while mixing down! I had no help and so had to do both at once. The first time I attempted this, my microphone cut out on me during a take. I spent the next hour trying to fix an intermittent short. I got it working again and recorded the existing version. Despite being 100% pleased with the performance, that's not something I would ever want to do again.

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from Always Look On The Dark Side Of Life, released September 18, 2015

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