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A really good remix for the 2009 MacJams Reunion Festival. I think we're finally getting the hang of this mastering stuff after four years of informal self-education. Jack's new left-channel guitar noodling is a perfect counterpoint to Mike's right-channel guitar licks. We dropped Rich's original Travis picking and parts of Jack's original "even strumming" rhythm guitar in favor of two "dueling" guitars -- the result is a cleaner soundbed. You can still hear Jack's original strumming in the "Love's not Time's fool" reprise refrain after the instrumental break.
Note from Jack Miller: "I was never into Shakespeare, nor am I now. Yet for some reason in the summer of 2004 I wanted to put a sonnet of his to music. The original demo was submitted on the "Dadai" song page, song #3877. I then asked Richard Schletty, who I didn't know, if he would sing it. I had been impressed with his vocal on his song Lovestruck Man and thought "here is a voice that is worthy of singing Shakespeare." We invited Michael Lavoie (Ei Oval) to add his beautiful lead acoustic guitar. Postludes Trio was born, even though we didn't take that name until a month or two later. The first collab version was uploaded under Richard's name. And then a remix under Postludes Trio. On this version I add a new acoustic guitar accompaniment that Richard has integrated with the original rhythm guitar."
Note from Richard Schletty: “This was my first online collaboration at MacJams. My voice track is unaltered from the 2004 original because I feel I hit on all cylinders on this. I remember practicing this sonnet by the sidelines as I watched my daughter play fall soccer. However, in our next Shakespeare remix (Thou Art More Lovely...to be posted next week), I decided to re-record all voice parts. Mike Lavoie subsequently joined Jack and I for a couple other Shakespeare sonnet settings but sadly slipped away from the MJ scene to do just live gigs. Jack and I have continued to collaborate and grow our songwriting, performance and recording skills. Not sure if I'll ever meet Jack in person but he is definitely a musical soulmate. To date, he has me greatly outnumbered in grandkids. We both like to sing about family treasures and elusive dreams."
Lyrics: William Shakespeare (Sonnet 116)
Music/arrangement: Jack Miller
Vocals/arrangement: Richard Schletty
Acoustic guitar: Mike Lavoie
Rhythm guitar/tin flute: Jack Miller
Mixing: Richard Schletty (2009 remix done with Logic Express 7.1)
Photoshopped song art by Richard Schletty (wedding of Elías and Bridget at St. John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, MN).
Note from Jack Miller: "I was never into Shakespeare, nor am I now. Yet for some reason in the summer of 2004 I wanted to put a sonnet of his to music. The original demo was submitted on the "Dadai" song page, song #3877. I then asked Richard Schletty, who I didn't know, if he would sing it. I had been impressed with his vocal on his song Lovestruck Man and thought "here is a voice that is worthy of singing Shakespeare." We invited Michael Lavoie (Ei Oval) to add his beautiful lead acoustic guitar. Postludes Trio was born, even though we didn't take that name until a month or two later. The first collab version was uploaded under Richard's name. And then a remix under Postludes Trio. On this version I add a new acoustic guitar accompaniment that Richard has integrated with the original rhythm guitar."
Note from Richard Schletty: “This was my first online collaboration at MacJams. My voice track is unaltered from the 2004 original because I feel I hit on all cylinders on this. I remember practicing this sonnet by the sidelines as I watched my daughter play fall soccer. However, in our next Shakespeare remix (Thou Art More Lovely...to be posted next week), I decided to re-record all voice parts. Mike Lavoie subsequently joined Jack and I for a couple other Shakespeare sonnet settings but sadly slipped away from the MJ scene to do just live gigs. Jack and I have continued to collaborate and grow our songwriting, performance and recording skills. Not sure if I'll ever meet Jack in person but he is definitely a musical soulmate. To date, he has me greatly outnumbered in grandkids. We both like to sing about family treasures and elusive dreams."
Lyrics: William Shakespeare (Sonnet 116)
Music/arrangement: Jack Miller
Vocals/arrangement: Richard Schletty
Acoustic guitar: Mike Lavoie
Rhythm guitar/tin flute: Jack Miller
Mixing: Richard Schletty (2009 remix done with Logic Express 7.1)
Photoshopped song art by Richard Schletty (wedding of Elías and Bridget at St. John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, MN).
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Lyrics
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Char
You all did a nice re-take on a very soothing and sweet piece. Thanks.