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| Gear nut Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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| So... ever been moved to tears during a session? So here's a first for me. At the risk of sounding like a wuss.... Just finished a session with an indie rock band that I've worked with a lot. I could tell right away that the lyrics were more personal this time and he was really giving it - I look through the window and he's just throwing his whole body into it. I had shivers while tracking a lot of it, and there was one point where I had to hold back tears. After they left I just closed my eyes, listened again, and actually had a few tears coming down. On two seperate songs, too. It's rare to have a singer and a song that can convey that much emotion. It's times like these that I realize why I want to do this. Any similar experiences? |
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| Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles sobre El Rio Porciuncula
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| more than once I've misted up while an orchestra played a really emotional and beautiful cue for a movie score.
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2006
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| Oh yes. quite a few times. and with wildly different music styles.
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: london
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| One time comes to mind, where the artists where a couple and they had this tune with potent love lyrics (rare thing, I know). I was in a lifestage to be really receptive so got a little weteyed while tracking it. It was only a demo and their prospective publishing honcho was in the controlroom at the time. Shortly after they signed publishing with a £250000 advance (with no record out....yes, it was a little while ago). The guy out of the couple couldn't thank me enough, as he thought my reaction had clinched their deal.....should have asked for commission ![]()
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: LONDON
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| Only when I laugh |
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| Gear addict Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Paris
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| Maybe I'm too sensitive but it happens quite often . Especially when recording vocals .
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jul 2006
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| Once a client of mine booked a short notice session for a friend of his who had lost his wife to a very swift cancer. She was young and beautiful. My clients friend was a singer, and came and recorded a song for her funeral , a song he had written for her while they were in the early part of their relationship. I had never met him before, he showed me a photo of her. It was the most raw and emotionally honest performance I'v ever heard. It was somehow stunning and awful and beautiful at the same time. I gave up trying not to cry. My client who booked the session was inconsolable and wept uncontrolibly while I tracked the song. They said nothing while I mixed the song and prepared CDs. Their silence was broken occasionally by more tears. This happened years ago, to this day I can still feel the sharp pain of that session. In some ways it was awe inspiring in so much as I saw a performance that was as close to pure emotion as you may ever see. Bird |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| TEARS OF JOY ...YES has happened a few times. A love song, writen by a 15 year old, that brought me to tears then I found out the song was about her grandmother. every time i listen to it now the water works start. |
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| Gearslutz.com admin Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK
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| Several times.. On one occasion the singer didn't come back in the control room, he threw the cans off and went straight out for a long walk.. Everybody in the control room was stunned by the performance, I had tears rolling down my cheeks, it was obviously the take. It was about his ex girlfriend and he was still broken hearted.. On another occasion I was getting misty about a song and the (girl) singer was kinda laughing at me for it (although she thought it was sweet... she said there wasn't in fact anything sad in the song lyrics..) It was just the melody and vocal emotion (what I thought was 'tragic' emotion!) that was getting to me... Emotion is good right?
__________________ Jules "While we're at it, insert the standard rant about shit being mixed and mastered to "cd quality". - msquared |
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| Gear nut Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Berlin
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| yeah. While recording for a documentary about a family being teared apart and killed during the nazi regime.. and a second time while recording an 'advertisement' for a german jail-constructing-company. They were in a 'pitch' for some new jails in Saudi Arabia. They advertised all the 'improvements' they can apply where human rights are not that strictly enforced.. ..Still waiting for the tears of joy.. |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2005 Location: Albany, New York
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| The one that always gets me is "Lo How a Rose Ere Blooming," it's got that really wrenching, supple melody that washes right through you. Sometimes.... I feel like there's huge reservoirs of emotion held in check by dikes and dams, all it would take is one little crevice and it'll flood and wash away everything in its path. There was a group of high school girls who were doing an a'capella "Turn Turn Turn," and that stuff always touches my hearstrings, stuff that takes me back to my childhood and makes me reflect on the passage of time and the cycling of generations, and my place in the whole swirl of life.
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| Gear nut | Almost when the first time I finally carefully listened to my singer's lyrics on one particular song while tracking our band. And knowing that the song was about a real friend who lost their mom, makes me think about it more now every time we play that song. |
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| Gear nut | I cry when someone brings a Crate in the studio. |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2006 Location: phallicdelphia
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| happened to me as an assitant there was a sax player who would eat italian hoagies with tons of onions and hot peppers before downbeat ..when i 'd go out to adjust the mics he 'd blow into the sax while i was fiddling with the close mic...always watered my eyes and stunk too ![]()
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| Gear interested Join Date: Jul 2005
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| mystery guitarist from Spain Not my story, but one that sticks out clearly in my head was a story told to me by a studio owner from Pompano Florida in the 80's. He recieved a call from a gentleman from Spain who booked a session and asked him to please pick him up at the airport. The Spanish man barely spoke during the time and had the engineer (owner) take him around the entire studio to unplug any AC power, signal cables and remove any tape from any machine that was not directly part of the recording. The Spanish man took out his guitar, asked for one mic to a single tape recorder and performed a guitar piece that the engineer described as the most poingnant, beautiful emotional performance that he had ever heard. After the performance, the guitarist asked to sit in the control room to hear back the entire performance. As they both listened back, the Spanish man wept deeply throughout the entire performance. The engineer claimed the room seemed to be charged with emotion that he never new. They wrapped up the session and without barley a word, the engineer drove the man back to the airport to wait for his plane going back to Spain. That was it. The engineer never heard anything back from the man, and never had a clue to the reasons why he and his studio were chosen, nor the source of inspiration of the guitar piece. So, another mysterious bewildering experience for an unsuspecting engineer. I had asked him what was the most memorable session he had ever done and I truly appreciate him telling me this one. Phil Donovan |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: london
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2006 Location: phallicdelphia
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| a good hoagie with quality lunch meats on great chewy bread that has olive oil drrizzeled on it..can make the hardest man cry..unfortunately all i got to "eat" was foul wind from the bell
__________________ I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem - the most important of all human problems"....alberta weintsein " Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." http://www.myspace.com/miketarsia http://miketarsia.com |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: nyc
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| doing vocal takes with anita o'day for "the nearness of you" - really feeling 86 years of life going into the take, being startled by the tears, happy to be there... be well - jack |
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: FL
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| I cried last week when I had a new female vocalist come in and butcher my latest song... But aside from that, I cry all the time with sad songs. I even cry on some commercials. ![]() I guess I'm very sentimental... ![]()
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