song 072 : Coyote (Out take)

This track has never before been released in any way anywhere. It's mixed by Neil Perry who mixed "1979" for Smashing Pumpkins and "Closer" for Nine Inch Nails. Danny Goldberg of Led Zeppelin and Nirvana fame brought Neil in to do some mixes when we were close to signing with Artemis.

Neil sat and listened to dozens of tracks including all our improvisations and told us they had "the mescaline afterglow of The Doors." When he started comparing me seriously to Jim Morrison I felt like I was hallucinating. After all, Neil's dad had mixed classic records like Beggar's Banquet for the Rolling Stones.

Neil told me a story about how Keith Richards had let him strum a guitar actually owned by the great blues legend and ultimate root of rock and roll Robert Johnson.

With a Protools rig from hell complete with all the updated doodads only endorsed kahunas enjoy, Neil produced this surprisingly bare and restrained mix.

If you play it back to back with Nitebob and Barile’s mix of Coyote you’ll see just how much a mix can affect your experience of a performance! It’s not that Barile changed anything or added anything, he would say he restored the vitality of the live sound. But Neil was mixing for radio. It had to sound good on tiny speakers!


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