My Recorded Cover Songs – My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
May 1st, 2010 . by Alexander Fisher
One of the benefits of not working and being unable to do so, is that I have had plenty of time to go through some of my old recordings. If you have been reading my blog posts (or Facebook notes), you know that I am trying to rescue some of my analog recordings from the late 80’s and early 90’s. I have many tracks that I can spend many hours working on in a self-induced digital audio bliss. Unfortunately others are cast in stone and not much can be done to them. Usually the reason was that I was low on tape and instead of keeping things that I could have had fun with later, I erased them.
One of those recordings was a mix of me tearing through Neil Young’s My My, Hey Hey. I remember I got the sheet music in a magazine and turned on the recorder and my drum machine and started to play the song. It sounds like I added a bass and maybe there are two guitars, but the rhythm is from the drum machine. I added a mid-tom and crash cymbal over top of the drum’s from Session Drummer 3, just to break up the monotony of them. Other than that, It is what is was then, as it is now.
Regardless, I think it’s pretty cool so I thought I’d post it.
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
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I hear a few things I wished I had done to this song, but I think this took about an hour to put together back then. Spending that much time on someone else’s song was my limit that day, I guess.
The analog tracks were originally recorded in about twenty years ago on a Yamaha MT-100 II 4 track cassette recorder using high speed (3.75 IPS) and dbx noise reduction.
I played electric guitar on a Fender Stratocaster and/or an Ibanez Les Paul. The bass was a Rickenbacker 4001. The drums were originally played on a Boss Dr. Rhythm drum machine.
I played the analog tracks directly into my computer using a stereo JVC audio cassette deck hooked to a dbx noise reduction unit. I processed the audio with Cakewalk Sonar v8.5 Producer and Sony Sound Forge v9.
