Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John

[ItsjustMe]

[underpants]

1. They recorded the whole album pretty much in one take per song

They’d wanted to record in Jamaica because the Stoneshad just recorded there. They found it to be too violent so they moved the recording to an English farm.

Everyday the musicians would gather for breakfast and warm up, tinker around. A piece of paper would be brought to Elton with Bernie’s lyrics on it. Sight unseen Elton would compose the song. Every track was recorded in one take maybe two - basically live.
Fascinating documentary. Bennie and the Hets went to #1 on the Pop and R&B charts.

Side note - not on this album - there is no rhyming pattern on “Rocketman”. Nothing rhymes in the whole song.




Great AXS documentary on it.
This is part 1 but the other parts are available on the link.

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[SergeStorms]

4. Everyone followed the Stones around.

First it was France, then Jamaica, then Montserrat (until the volcano blew it away).
Jimmy Buffet was the last to record at the Montserrat studios. The Album he recorded? "Volcano". He kept eying the Volcano while they were recording. He came up with the song, "Volcano" in about a half hour. Then the volcano actually blew.

Good times. 👍

[underpants]

5. Goats Head Soup

In reading “Old God’s Almost Dead” there was a constant with where the Stones recorded albums. Due to the entourage that orbited around them, the local officials made it very clear that they didn’t ever want them back there again.

[SergeStorms]

6. I can believe that.

"Keef" alone could piss-off an entire continent, let alone a single country.
That they're still alive is a testament to better living through chemistry. Still touring? Amazing.

[underpants]

7. They got really lucky

It’s a great book. From before they were all in the same room (March 17th 1961 or 62 I think) into the 90’s at least.

The first night Mick took LSD they weee at a party. One of the ladies thought she saw someone lurking outside. Every said she was just paranoid. It was Scotland Yard. They came in. Both Mick and Keith got arrested. Mick had a small bit of weed in the pocket of his jacket that he honestly had probably forgotten about. While in the house the cops started opening a briefcase that was on a table. Another party attendee said he was a photographer and if they opened it up his film would be destroyed and he’d sue Scotland Yard. They didn’t open it. What it really had in it was more LSD, weed, and maybe Coke. Due to laws there, everyone there would have been arrested for being in the same room and gone away for a good bit of time.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. "Funeral" Was So Much Work!

Done by David Hentschel on an ARP 2500.
That is a monophonic instrument, or only one note at a time. So all those layers & chords had to be recorded one track at a time! Whew, David was busy!
I hear at least 6 different sounds, with 3 being played in chords. A dozen separate tracks? Maybe more.

[SergeStorms]

3. Always one of my favorites.

It's queued up at #67 on the "soundtrack of my life" iPod list.
Yeah, I still use my iPod. Old habits are hard to break.