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NOTHING WITHOUT YOU

1st Oct

I uploaded the Nothing Without You video to my various channels, here it is:

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I decided not to give it it’s own blog post, I’ll be putting it in the forthcoming Music Video’s Part 4 as one of the last 3 videos. That’s because I’m doing the Late In The Summertime video to Carnival Of Souls and have done a NEW dreamy version of the song with strings. Here it is:

Late In The Summertime (Dreamy)

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I realized with hindsight that the vocals didn’t fit with the uptempo version I made with the Wrecking Crew. The vocals were recorded to a quiet acoustic version and don’t really work over the Spector thing so I’ll be keeping that as an instrumental and the one above will be the official version of the track.

Hopefully this next video won’t take too long.

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22nd Sept

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20th Sept

SIREN SONG

I’ve finished the Nothing Without You video in HD but want to give it it’s own blog post so need to archive this Latest News page first before uploading it. It’s 9.10 minutes long and the file size is 3.5GB’s!

I’m using an early mix of the song with strings (see previous post) for the video. The strings are a bit rough around edges and incomplete for the last 3 minutes but somehow sound better when mixed than the completed one’s.

These are the completed strings, you can hear them playing “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” at one point but the famous melody gets drowned out under the song:

NOTHING WITHOUT YOU (ISOLATED STRINGS)

Here’s the poster, I’ll upload th video in the next few days:

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11th Sept

MAGNUM OPUS ALERT!

I’ve completed a rough edit of the Nothing Without You music video and It’s NINE MINUTES LONG!! Now I’ve got to re-edit it all again in HD quality.

The movie I’ve used for the video is Night Tide starring 60’s counter-culture legend Dennis Hopper in his first leading role from 1961. It’s about a sailor on shore leave who falls in love with a girl who performs as a mermaid at a fairground by the sea with strange and tragic consequences. The girl is under mind control by a witch woman played by Jack Parson’s wife. It’s got great visuals, occult themes and the Hop playing a nice guy for once.

Here’s the mix of the song I’m using for the music video:

NOTHING WITHOUT YOU (WITH STRINGS)

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14th Aug

STRINGS AND THINGS

For the last month I’ve been working on the strings for Nothing Without You and editing the music video. The video is over 9 minutes long due to the intro (from Night Tide) being over a minute long. First I need to complete the song which is taking shape quite well with strings which are sampled from 4 different versions of the track “He Ain’t Heavy… He’s My Brother”.

Here’s the latest mix of the track which I’m adding the strings too. It has some minor tweaks to vocal and piano:

NOTHING WITHOUT YOU (NEW MIX)

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and here is a rough mix of the instrumental with partially completed strings:

NOTHING WITHOUT YOU (ROUGH STRINGS / INST.)

They’re far from finished, the strings from about 5 minutes onwards are just rough guides or not done at all. These are the tracks I’m sampling the strings from (below), it’s mainly The Hollies and Neil Diamond with the second half featuring Kelly Gordon (loud parts) with Bobby Scott’s version (who wrote the song) featuring here and there.

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