This one was kind of cheating. I played Rockin’ in the Free World in a band years ago, so I just needed a quick refresher on the chords to be able to play it.
I did have to do a number of takes because for some reason I would only do half the number of bars for the verses. Made two false starts that way.
Then I realized my smart trick of putting the guitar amp through the same external channel of my mixer as my microphone made it so that I was also picking up everything through the mic. That caused another take because that Neil Young guitar didn’t go so well with dishes being done. Oh well.
I used my Strat in the Bridge position for this, which is my Duncan Distortion pickup. I picked a nasty premade tone on the Fender Mustang 1 modeling amp. Didn’t want to get too fussy and I like how the guitar part sounds.
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