Okay, okay… I admit the Who haven’t recorded with Greta Thunberg and my favourite all-girl Belfast bluegrass/folk-Gothic band Wookalily – though I’d be the first to purchase if they had 🙂 – but I recorded a home demo observation on Thunberg at the UN a day after she appeared there, with a few Townshend-ish power chords, and thought about adding it as a fifth track to a download EP by my ‘band’, the Legends of Tomorrow (an evolving collective, really), that was ready to be made available. But my own vocal wasn’t good enough – all the grit, none of the quality – so I thought about getting a young woman involved.
I had two singers in mind whose voices I could imagine working with it – for one, the timing was wrong, for the other, she wasn’t convinced her voice was right for it. Eventually, I asked Wookalily vocalist Lyndsay Crothers. Much as I love her singing, I hadn’t thought it would work with the song, but I was delightfully incorrect on that. We recorded Lindsay’s vocal in a studio on Friday and she did a wonderful job, I think. Production wizard Cormac O’Kane wisely shunted the guitar parts up a tone. I’m just sharing it for the sake of sharing it, really. The EP is probably out late November.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4oTrf4eeFY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3h4wmwwQ9fj3G2l185hND_706S9qIcLU2yQXzJHSUKZxJeUyVXGw1g650
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4oTrf4eeFY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3h4wmwwQ9fj3G2l185hND_706S9qIcLU2yQXzJHSUKZxJeUyVXGw1g650
Colin H says
Strange – the link didn’t open. I’ll try again…
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Mmm, tasty.
ps Mods – I’ve noticed links that me and others have placed in their OP don’t always work?