This is great, thank you for posting this. Really digging those lyrics and those chords changes are so good, I can imagine this as a finished track from listening now. I always think of “Free as a Bird” from the John Lennon demo that got released with The Beatles anthology when George, Paul and Ringo finished it years later. It would be so cool if Donald and Walters favorite musicians could take these demo tracks and play their parts and create a cool finished track, but also I really love that it is unfinished and raw, it just shows Beckers talent at its purest form, with just a keyboard track, vocal and program drum track, you can hear him, hear his sound, his mind working away. He must have realized this one was a keeper as well to go back to it and I can understand it, its great! A nice start to 2021!

Thanks!! It was a blast to make and amazing to be able to use Walters gear, many more to come hopefully!

Thanks so much Matthew! That’s really great to hear. That end part you mentioned was a real fluke as well, the guitar bent into that sax part and just went with it so it got left as is, thats one of my favourite parts too. And 2nd Arrangement was a massive inspiration of course for this! That song is on repeat forever in my brain in a good way!

Great to hear this version! Thanks for posting this Matthew. Haha that anecdote is great about Walter hearing that it was a beat faster!! What an amazing ear and sense of timing he had! Another level!!

@Lary Dixon Hi Lary, thanks so much for the info! Those pedals sound so much better than other gear I have owned and now I know why! I only Procol Harum's famous stuff so will start digging deeper and listen to a lot more and get into Bridge of Sighs too! I know what you mean about that overdrive though, its not overbearing like other overdrive I have used, its adds just the right amount of grit! Love it! And the Supa-Trem is insanely good too! That Carmen Ghia amp sounds incredible too! You and Walter the first owners?! Thats cool! I had a quick look online and its definitely another one for the list of things to one day acquire! Cleveland sounds like a cool spot man, Akron is where the Black Keys are from isn't it?? It sounds like a real musical town!

These pics sound great! I can’t see them attached though haha. Looking forward to having a look though!! Or is it just my bad? Not sure if its just my phone playing up?!

Oh man that would have been a crime to clean up al the gear! So glad you told them! Thats amazing to know they were in Walters home studio too, I would have loved to have had the honor to take a peek into Walters home setup. I will look after the gear and give it a good home in my little home studio!

I set my alarm to wake up because of the time difference here in Japan and managed to stay awake all night bidding trying to snag a dream guitar. I didn’t manage to in that auction so I was so happy when I heard there was to be a second online auction! I made a number of bids and was determined not to miss out on my last chance. I was at the airport flying home to London for xmas with the family when I made the bids and as the plane took off all I could think about was how the auction was going and whether I would get lucky! I was so happy when I landed in London to see that I had won two lots!! Happy is an understatement, I was beaming like a lottery winner after the 12 hour flight! i got two Fulltone effects pedals, one is an amazing tremolo Supa Trem, the other is a Robert Trower overdrive. They sound incredible, the Supa Trem even has markings of the settings Walter used on the tape attached, I have to admit I have stared at these pieces of tape for an unhealthy amount of time. The second lot was a Digidesign studio console that was housed in Walters Hyperbolic Sound studio, it blows my mind to have something from Walters studio, the console has EQ and Vox written on two channels so I can’t stop wondering what may have been recorded on this, if anybody out there could let me know any more about it I would be forever grateful. I have already got it up and running and downloaded the old drivers to get it working and its great. I‘m so happy with everything I got and these items will be used and cherished in equal measures! i