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Hi All,

This is a small piece of advice which was given to me 20 years ago, and I still use it now every time I go on stage or do recording a session.

I was asked to put some guitars on a couple of tracks by a (quite famous at that time) Manchester band ,so it was important for me to get this right, I was given rough demo's and a week to learn them, I diligently rehearsed the two tracks till I new them inside out.

The day of the session I had a few practice runs with the other guys, and then the singer arrived, we began to do red light takes, 1st take perfect, (in my view), but half way thru the keyboard player stopped it and said no man, its all wrong, OK I said lets take it again, 2nd take the same thing happened, 3rd take ditto, 4th take "no man you got it wrong, by this time I had had enough, I knew I had made any mistakes on any of the takes, I shouted at him, "listen I just played 5 takes and I can tell you there was nothing wrong with any of them, the chords were right and the timing was spot on every time".

The guy came over to me he was a big West Indian called Leroy and he stuck a rather large fag in my mouth, looked me in the eye and said: "listen man I never said you played the wrong chords, nor did I say you played it out of time, but what I am saying is: he put his hand on top of his head and said: "I want a little less o dis", he then moved his hand to his heart and said: "an a little more a dat".

I suddenly understood, I took his advice and we put both tracks down in straight off!

If yer don't feel it yer cant heal it, its called SOUL!, take care all.

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