Girlfriend x3
This 3-parter on "11 Tracks of Whack’s" Girlfriend has been in the works for a while.
But we've finally pulled together a few interesting and, we hope, illuminating bits from the voluminous Vault versions of this popular tune.
But it’s more than just a full-band rundown, which many of you have requested over the years.
Because the twists and turns and — some would say — surprising resolution for this cut are pretty good Exhibit-As for one of our WBM lief motifs: the persistent and oftentimes iterative process of songwriting and track production.
It also happens to illustrate that sometimes the right step forward may be a step back.
And zooming in to the personal, we’ll consider that Walter really seems to have dug in ... to get this tune emotionally, psychologically right; to discover and distill some core subjective truths which he felt compelled to express.
Been a while since I've dropped by WBM and...hoo-eee! Things have been happenin' here. Add my "Amen" to the chorus of thanks to @Matt & @D-Mod for this trio of Girlfriends. The breakdown/buildup, in particular, is...a-MAY-zing. (And then to have Dave Russell drop in with behind-the-scenes session deets: Crazy!)
So I gotta ask, as a fan of immersive mixing: does the existence of those DAT tapes full of Whack components (which I assume have been lovingly transferred and archived onto multiple other media by now) mean that a genius like, say, Elliot Scheiner (or maybe some young turk who's made a careful study of Elliot's multi-channel mixing modus operandi) could, in principle, put together an Atmos mix of 11TOW? D-Mod, would you be open to such a thing...?