Paul Butterfield also performed this with his Better Days group.Cheap Thrills, the major-label debut of Janis Joplin, was one of the most eagerly anticipated, and one of the most successful, albums of 1968. There are several videos of Nick performing this on You Tube. (CD & DVD) I have a framed poster of this in my office, signed by all participants. You can hear the author, Nick Gravenites sing this on his albums:Ĭhicago Blues Reunion w/Siegel, Goldberg, Mandel, Lay, etc. When you’re buried alive, oh, you reach out for somebody,Īnd when you’re buried alive you get can’t seem to press on throughīeing buried alive is a bad condition it’s a real weird situationīeing buried alive in the blues, it’s a real weird situation When you’re buried alive they never care about you. When you’re buried alive they walk right on by you. It’s real hard you know, it’s real hard being buried alive Something here’s trying to pollute my brain, I can’t be the one to accept all this blame, I’m buried alive, somebody help me, in the blues On the street, I’m talking out of my head, Here's the lyrics for Buried Alive in the Blues: I'm sure they mixed it the way they did to be compatible with SQ (SQ not having rear center capability) but I think a little more thought could have come up with a spectacular mix. That to me would be the ultimate Joplin mix. Janis' vocal front and center, percussion where needed to fill a hole and bass all around mixed mostly to the front. Lead and rhythm guitars left and right front, piano and organ left and right rear. If I were to remix this in 4 channel, I'd keep the drum closer together and probably up front with the overhead track to the rear. Buried Alive in the Blues which is an awesome song just as an instrumental, is basically everything up front with ambience in the rear. Seeing as how this was recorded at Columbia Studios in 19, I'd assume they'd have had a 16-track tape at their disposal. That's 11 total, and there were probably more for overdubs. I can hear 4 distinct drum tracks (kicker, kit left, kit right, overhead), then we've got an organ track, a piano track, bass track, rhythm guitar track, lead guitar track, percussion track and vocal track. My unprofessional ears love to pull things apart. Left rear sounds to me like drum kit left, and again, the odd bit here or there. Right rear is mostly kicker drum and the odd organ part and/or percussion. It's kind of like super-stereo with lots up front and not much in the rear. If I were to seriously critique the mix, the biggest fault I would give it is not imaginative enough. I doubt if the instrumental "Buried Alive In The Blues" and "Mercedez Benz" (a song I like especially in Quad) would have been put on this record had she lived. But it has some of her best work with songs like "Me & Bobby McGee" and "Get It While You Can." I like these songs in Quad. They rushed this record out if I recall correctly. A lot of the "common man" social change will seem lost today if you only look at her as an immortal Rock God. In the 1960's, she was not a pretentious "rock star" but one of the people and part of the social change that was and still is going on today. I remember hearing right after she died, "don't worry she has another album coming out." So that gave us some comfort. My cousins saw her round and about in Sausalito all the time (on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge) like it was no big deal. You would see her hanging out and doing whatever else was going on at the time. This was where she got her first big break as the singer for Big Brother & the Holding Company (which is still going strong playing live). This was especially a big blow to us music fans in the San Francisco Bay Area because we felt she was one of us. I think this album - a great must have Quad title - suffers simply from the fact she died during the making of the record. It's sort of a tricky art that can leave you with, depending on the recording, it is what it is, no matter how much tweaking you do. Having mixed many songs with loud vocals with loud rock music, it's easy to lower the vocals a bit so you can clearly hear the music. The same might be said of the vocals on some of the songs on the Aerosmith Quad records. Probably because she would sing softly to very loud in the same song. Because the author for both scripts is the same as well as directions, more or less.īut either way, you're right about Janis' vocals being mixed perhaps a bit into the mix. It gives - IMHO - results that are the same as using Adobe Audition 2.0. What script and directions are you using for AA 1.5? Try these if you have not already:
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