another (fan) cover!

[Allan Sharpe]

Ok, not technically perfect, but very enjoyable.

Great stuff Carl

Allan Sharpe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: HW: another (fan) cover!


> Inspired by Jade Man's ritualising and Tom Byrne's cover things, I
> sat down with Apple's GarageBand for 24 hours (well, not counting
> sleep, food, slackness, etc.) and bashed up a cover of Hawkwind's
> "Hassan I Sabha" (aka "Assassins of Allah"):
>
> http://www.carlaz.com/music/Hassan_I_Sabha.mp3
>
> 192kbps, so might be a bit slow on the downloading side .....
> It's rough, but good fun :)  I wasn't attempting to capture any
> authentic vibe; rather I was just seeing how it came out with the
> tools at hand.  I guess it kind of follows the original, with a bit
> of influence from HW's contemporary versions, and a desperate attempt
> to make up for the lack of violin which I really would have
> wanted :)  I used free drum and synth loops, reused any bits of
> guitar and bass that I didn't screw up, and cut'n'pasted OK bits to
> try and gloss over the *many* places I did screw up ... at least,
> until I got tired of doing so :)
>
> I haven't actually linked this from my web site because, besides it
> being a cover of copyrighted material (though obviously I'm not
> selling anything), I, uh, used a few samples I scrounged from various
> places totally without permission :)  But hey, theft, so it goes :)
>
> Rock on,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>