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Mellow Doubt

from Leftovers by Michael Shelley

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I was working at my desk recently, with my computer's music library in shuffle mode and a song came on & I thought "this sounds good, what it is?" - it was my own version of the Teenage Fanclub song "Mellow Doubt" - I know it sounds impossible to not recognize your own recording & voice - but I swear it was true (for about 12 seconds) - I thought it was The Foo Fighters or something... I guess it had been a few years since I'd heard the recording!

It was recorded for a Teenage Fanclub tribute album called "What A Concept" that was released on the Not Lame label.
Here are some semi interesting things about the recording:

It was started at Peter Katis' Tarquin Studio, where I did the a scratch guitar & scratch vocal & then overdubbed the drums. Then I quickly did two tracks of vocals - both 1st takes & both one continuous take - thinking these would be a guide during the rest of the recording - but I ended up keeping them both - except for the humming in the bridge. It's really odd how well they turned out - considering I'd never practiced singing the harmony part.

Then I took the drum & vocal tracks home & added the bass (through my guitar amp), keyboards (Casio through Boss tremolo & compression pedals through an amp), Stylophone (the solo at the fade out, that sounds like a guitar), shaker & electric guitars. All recorded onto ADAT, but through my 4 Track cassette, because it was the only mixer I had.
Then I went to Ron Zabroki’s studio (way the hell out on Long Island) & re-sang the humming part on the bridge (from “doot doot” to “mmmm” “mmmm”) maybe added more electric guitars (the tremolo parts), the acoustic guitars & mixed it.
I was amazed how different (in a good way) it sounded on the finished CD, due to the heavy mastering.
I like the way it came out & posted a bunch of MP3 versions here:
www.michaelshelley.net/doubt

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from Leftovers, released March 15, 2015

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The Onion: "Shelley finds common ground between teen angst and grown-up heartbreak." No Depression: "Proving wisdom and whimsy can coexist in the same two-and-a-half-minute-roots-pop excursion, Shelley's writing strikes the correct balance between conversational and clever. His adventures feel like your adventures presuming that you've survived first loves, sunburns and faulty relationships." ... more

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