Here's a cover of the titular track from The Afghan Whigs' 1993 record, Gentlemen! This tune, despite not getting a heck of alot of airplay on NYC radio stations that I listened to when it came out, always stuck in my head because the main verse riff was a real ear worm for me! The track really differs from contemporaneous tracks of the time having a slightly swung pulse. I finally discovered just how important that swing is to the track as listening back to my performance of the bass in solo, it's rather stiff! Aside from the guitar hook, the bass really has a prominent roll in the arrangement while the drums solidify the swing to the track, but it's really the vocals that are the star of the track, bordering between being bluesy and just straight up unhinged.
For recording, I double tracked both all guitars including the solo. For the rhythm guitars, I played a distorted gain version and doubled it with a relatively clean tweed sound, all through the Fender Cybertwin. For the solo however, I took one pass with my usual Fender Cybertwin tone, but double it with a direct in through the Mercurial U530 plugin. FWIW, I didn't find the guitar tone in a mix to be significantly different with this approach. The remaining bass, drums, and vocals were all tracked with the usual approach I take. Unlike my last recording, the only vocal part that was tuned at all was the last note in the song since it got a little pitchy!
Hopefully you got a kick out of this 2nd Afghan Whigs tune I covered on the channel! I think the overall mix is generally a bit more solid than the last outing, but let me know what you think in the comments!
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