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[26-27] Slide-Calvary (A Facsimile)
[26-27] Slide-Calvary (A Facsimile)
A two-song medley.
Slide - Written and Performed by Monty Dicksion
Calvary - Written by Gary Duncan.
About [26-27] Slide-Calvary (A Facsimile)
As I stated at the beginning of this video, I'm calling my recording of the song "Calvary" a "facsimile," rather than a "rendition" because this recording was my attempt to play Calvary as close as I could to the way that the band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, played it on their "Happy Trails" album. I've always liked Quicksilver's original version, and this recording is my tribute to that song.
So why did I make this video a two-song medley, rather than two separate music videos?
Well, the answer to that question dates back to when I first made up the song Slide. I don't know when I came up with that song, but it was surely sometime back in the '70's. (By the way, the inspiration for Slide comes from a song called "Around the Plynth," by Faces from their album "First Step.")
Anyway, as I say, I've always liked Quicksilver's "Calvary," from their "Happy Trails" album. And, for whatever reason, every time I would finish playing Slide, I always found myself playing the opening first 6 chords of the song Calvary. But I had never taken the time to learn how to play any more of the song than that.
So when I got to the point of doing Slide for the ALAICMI project, I decided to have a go at playing Calvary. And it was my intention, that for the sake of that project, which uses backing tracks for a lot of the songs, that I would create backing track files for these two songs also.
Well, that's possible to do. But with Calvary, it would be extremely difficult, because even though I could create a backing track for Calvary, playing along with it is another story. The reason is because of the way that Quicksilver's Gary Duncan and John Cippolina performed their respective guitar solos. The guitar solos are played very much like the way they used to play their free-form jam sessions. Performances like that just about require the presence of the whole band so that they can perform by the use of eye-contact with one another in order to pull off their timing. In fact, I just imagine the hair-pulling frustration that their recording engineer must have had when they recorded this song for their album. You can hear when they had to make timing and tempo tweaks in order for the whole band to remain in sync with each other.
Slide, as a musical composition, is really nothing. But for raw energy, it's lots of fun to play. It's one of my guitar-poundingest songs. I began working on the medley with Slide September 25, 2022, and I had the audio recording finished in about 2 weeks.
But then it was time for Calvary! Whoo-boy! A monster of an undertaking! I'm very pleased with how Calvary turned out, but I don't ever want to take on a song project that hard ever again.
Calvary easily took up more than 2 months of work. And the two songs together - audio & video portions together - took 3 months of non-stop work without any days off for breaks.