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GW: "Houses" is so bright-sounding. Did you vari-speed the tape up a notch to get everything to sparkle more??
Page: No, the only song I can think of that we vari-speeded up were a couple of overdubs on "Achilles Last Stand". However, I applied the vari-speed to the overall track of "No Quarter". I dropped the whole song a quarter
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I have long suspected the use of varispeed on the vocals on that album. It's rumoured that RP had vocal chord surgery - which personally I think accounts for the ragged quality his voice had on many Physical Graffiti cuts like Custard Pie and Sick Again, and the tonal change and pitching problems he had for about a decade after Houses.
And if that's true, and JP is keeping mum, what else isn't he telling? Pick up what you can by all means, but take it all with a pinch of salt too.