A straight-ahead ‘give me one last chance’ pop song. When finished, it reminded me of the ‘70s bands Blood Sweat and Tears and The Faces; maybe it’s the brass and electric piano parts.  I didn’t intend it that way, but I confess I was trying to get a big brass section sound.  I was also trying to get a ‘live in the studio sound’.

Laurie, my song writing partner, came up with the lyrics back in 2002 but after a few sessions on it we shelved the song because we couldn’t find the right feel, arrangement and sounds we wanted so it lacked punch.  I went back to it in late 2010, tried some different things, and it started to come together.

Technical notes:

Recorded and mixed in Sonar Producer X1.  Drums sounds from Addictive Drums with conga sounds from EZDrummer.  The brass section was a combination of two tracks using sounds from Steinberg’s HALion Sonic (software sound module), layered with three tracks (trumpet, trombone, sax) using samples from an old Computer Music magazine cover disk.  (I used samples from this source on ‘Autumn Blues’ also.)  I used Band In A Box and Jammer Pro to come up with keyboard (piano and electric piano) and bass parts from my chords, and the sounds for these came from my trusty Roland Fantom X6 synth.  The final mix was mastered using TRacks3 software on a preset called‘Master #1’ but with the brickwall limiter switched off.  For limiting I used Fabfilter’s ProL limiter, plugged in next to TRacks3, to maximise loudness but without damaging things!