Tamara sings and I am on board for accompaniment with this cover of the Waitresses’ 1982 Christmas ode to singletons written decades before Bridget Jones ever encountered a reindeer jumper at the turkey curry buffet.


This song is pretty much Christmas time’s version of R.E.M.’s  “It’s the end of the world as we know it (I feel fine)”.  I had the best time on Sunday collaborating with Tamara on this one.  She has always LOVED this song and it was a lot of fun to put together with her.  We laughed so hard trying to get all the nuances of this almost spoken word piece to work lyrically because while we are both fast talkers, the waitresses blow through this number.

 

It was really wonderful to not be in charge of the vocal push of the song.  I got to try out the Auto Funk pedal on my second rhythm guitar and I made an homage to the bridge which I cut out in the intro guitar riff.  I love the bridge but it just made sense to simplify.  I think this is also the first time I have EVER whistled on a song.  It sounded a lot better than keyboard horns and I didn’t want to add funky synths so whistle it is. This song took three hours to pull together.  I was amazed that even though I was not being picky or perfectionist I couldn’t lay down the tracks very swiftly.  The vocal tracks took a long time too because of all the phrasing.  T did a really nice job getting it all to work, and I learned quite a bit about how to process a vocal delivery that is so rapid fire.

Christmas Wrapping 3


COMMENTS / 2 COMMENTS

Loving these! Sounds like you guys are having a good time with it.

hannah added these pithy words on Dec 12 11 at 9:45 am

We are having SOOO much fun. It has been really nice to just enjoy making stuff together and not worrying about perfection or approval. For me that is really liberating.

Bradley added these pithy words on Dec 12 11 at 10:10 am