Postby lukpac » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:41 am
Behind Blue Eyes continues to be a mystery. Supposedly recorded on 8-track, but it always seemed like there were 9 tracks to account for. That still seems to be the case. At the very end of the song, you've got:
- drums (L)
- drums (r)
- bass (c)
- acoustic guitar (r)
- electric guitar (l)
- Roger 1 (c)
- Roger 2 (c)
- backing vocals 1 (l)
- backing vocals 2 (c and r)
On the extraction, everything is separate and distinct, other than the fact that the acoustic guitar is mixed with one of the backing vocal tracks when it switches to the "extra" tracks when the electric guitar comes in. That seems to be a function of the gameplay, though, rather than the way the song was recorded - surely the acoustic guitar was what was recorded live? Actually, now that I'm listening again, there's stereo reverb on the backing vocals there, but not on the guitar. So it is clearly on its own track.
BTW, it sounds like there *might* have been some cymbal work from Keith in the first half of the song that got mixed out. It would be interesting to hear the actual multis to see what was there. Seems like you can hear something on the acoustic guitar track in a couple of places.
Another interesting bit - on the original mix, during "I have hours, only lonely/My love is vengeance, that's never -", there are no backing vocals. They come in for "FREE". It sounds like on the remix they are there, albeit very low in volume, and they don't come up much in volume for "FREE". They are there on the Rock Band mix.
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