She Said, She Said

Thought I would put up a Predatur track everyday, also in the run-up to the gig at the Facebar Reading on the 26th of October with The Dead Can Wait.

Just a quick recollection and background on the track for anyone that may be interested.

The first track is 'She Said She Said'

I had started working on the initial track With Mick Pete and Jack out at Padworth

I’ve realised over subsequently years that probably Mick and I didn’t have the same quality of songs or style of songs that were on ‘Mean’ and ‘In Your Garden’. There wasn’t anything fresh there to be had that I felt was exciting and worthwhile and, since playing with John I’d become more fascinated with was the early Quo sound and the numbers I most enjoyed were 'In My Chair' and 'April', and also the range of songs was really quite broad in terms of invention.

So I probably based this track on wanting something like ‘Time to Fly'.

I also wanted a 'na na na' voice type break.

Something like ‘April’ or the track 'Lick and a Promise’ by Aerosmith.

Obviously, we were busy with JC then I was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and everything changed from that point. But I did have the nucleus of the song and I really like the way that Mick approached the guitar playing on it and I did ask Charles to play what Mick originally played on it.

Obviously things turned out the way they did and eventually settling in at Crscent Records Studio in Swindon with Damon Sawyer, this was the first track we attempted.

we had done minimal work on the song.

And I only had very vague outline ideas for the album.

I believe Something happens the first or second time you run through something when you don’t really know what you’re doing, you can sometimes capture something magical that, when a song is rehearsed to death, the original spark of unknown is lost.

I will talk about the studio and the process more but didn’t want to make this long and winding so basically this is the first take of this song.

Everything is live and in the same room this was an important way of recording for me. It’s how it was always done.

Jack didn’t bring the drums in how I expected him to, but I didn’t want to stop playing. I wanted to get to the end of the track just to see what everybody ended up playing . The idea was to end it in such a way we set it up for a slow blues.

Which we managed to do on that first take completely unrehearsed.

However, I said to Jack that I wasn’t sure about the way the drums came in? I expected them to come fully at the end of the first verse pretty standard intro

He said he didn’t really didn’t feel like it should be like that, but he was happy to do it like that so we did another take.

Listening back to the 2 takes, I preferred the way that he had done it the first time, it had tons more feel and he was completely right

So we went with that first take.

Anyway, enjoy