The interplay between the guitars is also wonderful and well thought out. The drums are especially solid and disciplined, unusually so for a young player. The rhythm section of drummer Joey Kramer and bassist Tom Hamilton is particularly simple and strong. There are a number of excellent production aspects though. All this was left in, yet it never hindered our enjoyment of the song, which goes to prove that production perfection doesn't exactly mean you'll have a hit. The lead vocal falls out of the pocket for a second due to a late entrance at 1:58. To some degree you can hear that in "Dream On." None of the instrument entrances to the sections are clean, with certain instruments (mostly the guitars) jumping out ahead. I studied under producer/engineer Adrian Barber for about 3 months in the late 70's and he was quite a character with very seat of the pants in his approach. Speaking of keyboards, I'm not sure what they used but it sounds like one of the very early all-purpose synths of the time, with the very cheap piano emulation that sounds like a harpsichord on the intro, the organ sound at the end, and the highly modulated synth sound on the right side during the fade out (you need headphones to hear it). One of the cooler aspects of this record is the wide stereo field, with the guitars panned pretty hard to both sides, the keyboard on the left and the Mellotron up the middle. There are also a couple of bad breath pops from the lead vocal during the verses at :54 and 1:44 that are left in. This sounds like the approximately 120 millisecond predelay that comes when using a tape machine set to 7 1/2 ips in the send path to the reverb. The song is recorded very basically, but that was the style of Adrian Barber, who cut his teeth on some big records by Cream, The Rascals and Velvet Underground during his time as a staff engineer at Atlantic Records.Īll of the instruments are pretty dry and in your face except for the vocal, which has a very pronounced delayed plate reverb. "Dream On" was recorded on 16 track at Intermedia Sound in Boston, a studio that I worked at a lot during my days there. * The Rhythm: This is different from most songs in that it's provided by the picking guitars and keyboards in the intro, verse and interludes. * The Pad: The Mellotron in the intro, first verse and first interlude About the only thing that changes during the song is the sound of the keyboard and the addition of the Mellotron in the intro and interludes.
"Dream On" features a straight ahead 5 piece rock band, with almost no sweetening. The melody and lyrics of the song very strong, and these sell the song to the casual listener who doesn't take much notice to the music probably more than anything else. This is a highly unusual song form indeed. The second interlude has the same motif as the intro, but is played in the major instead of a minor and is 7 bars long! Then we have the bridge (the high point in most songs) at 14 bars and the out chorus at 10. The first verse has 12 bars while the 2nd verse has 8. What's more, just about each section is a different length. Obviously this is not a song written by a formula, since the chorus takes so long before it's introduced (at about 2:05) and the bridge is the only section that actually contains the title of the song ("Dream On").
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Get the embed code Aerosmith - Central Park, NY Aug 29th 1975 (Remastered) Album Lyrics1.Big Ten Inch Record (Remastered) - Live2.Dream On (Remastered) - Live3.Sweet Emotion (Remastered) - Live4.Toys In The Attic (Remastered) - Live5.Train Kept A Rollin' (Remastered) - Live6.Walk This Way (Remastered) - Live7.Write Me A Letter (Remastered) - LiveAerosmith Lyrics provided by Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
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