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Three Marlenas - The Wallflowers

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  • NeedsBass Electric
  • NeedsDrums
  • NeedsKeys Synthesizer
  • NeedsVocals
  • NeedsGuitar Lead
  • NeedsViolin
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Published on 16 May 2023 / In Rock / Prog/Progressive

From the album "Bringing Down the Horse" (1997)

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Bass Electric Jamesarc
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Keys Synthesizer
Vocals joeykaraoke
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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 11 months ago

This is a pretty great two chord song. It just goes on and on.

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joeykaraoke
joeykaraoke 11 months ago

Nice work Robert!

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james arc
james arc 11 months ago

Sounds awesome

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 11 months ago

Need those gorgeous Garth Hudson-y keys now. Maybe @airedale ? Maybe @tonysurf70 ?

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 11 months ago

Thanks for the open invitation to this collab. I've had fun working on it. At first I didn't think I could sing that high. Then I had some hot tea and warmed up, and I found that I could go there after all. It's nice when we manage to exceed our own expectations. :-)

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Clint_the_Cool_Guy
Clint_the_Cool_Guy 11 months ago

It sounds great man! Thanks for your work on this

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 11 months ago

@Clint_the_Cool_Guy: This one kind of drew me in. I stayed up way too late working on it. A simple groove with a sweet melody and really plaintive harmony. A good example of the "less is more" principle in songwriting. And I still have no idea what it's really about.

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Clint_the_Cool_Guy
Clint_the_Cool_Guy 11 months ago

@Surferbeto: Really? It’s simple man! It’s about Marlenas. Three of them. “Four Marlenas” would mean something completely different! Haha

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 11 months ago

@Clint_the_Cool_Guy: The most famous Marlena of the 20th century was Marlena Dietrich. I'm pretty sure she is not referenced in this song. She was so smoking hot in her day... :-)

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Surferbeto
Surferbeto 11 months ago

@Clint_the_Cool_Guy I uploaded and synced a backing vocal track for your consideration. I hope you dig.

I sang the part 2x pretty tightly, worked 'em up a bit in Audacity (noise gate, compression, light EQ) and panned them 70% L and R.

I also cleaned up @joeykaraoke's lead vocal track a bit in Audacity (noise gate, improved sync, light compression, light EQ), re-imported it, synced, and clipped negative time. I added a little BandHug reverb to both vocals. I saved a simple mix in DAW mode.

I think it sounds pretty good. joey's original track is in draft mode if you want to revert for some reason.

Please publish new mix when you are happy with it. Rock on!

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