Tuesday, 22 July 2008

I Remember You & Gary Numan

I have recorded my brand new version of "I remember You" and it has come out fantastic, very atmospheric and a song Gary Numan could easily put his own vocals to. The song itself is about Numan and how his fame came to an abrupt end but it did n't worry him at all and when many other artists would have quit the music business Gary continued with his career and now it is paying dividends with a host of bands naming him as an influence. "I Remember You" as I say is about his fall from the top of the music tree and about how many fans have stuck by him when he could so easily have quit the music business. I am going to send the song to Gary in the vain hope he might be interested in it!

Continuing the Numan theme, I recently joined the forum community of the well respected Gary Numan fan website "Numanme". Unbelievably I have visited this site for years but never realized they had forums on it! I have met a few people in their and the guy who runs it is asking for cover versions to be sent in for a tribute album and I have sent the 3 cover versions I have recorded so far (I Nearly Married A Human, Cars & Replicas), however, I have started recording another Gary Numan cover, this time a track off his album "Telekon" called "Please Push No More" a fantastic electronic ballad. I actually got a midi file for this track off the Numanme website but the song was only 1 minute long!!! I have used the basis of the midi file to construct a full song and I think the arrangement works fine. Need to do mixing and re-record some of the vocals.

I have also been recording the Yazoo track "Don't Go" and whilst I have done the music the vocals are proving a bit of a nightmare so that one is on the back burner for now whilst I concentrate on "Please Push No More" and of course my own track "I remember You"

Yesterday I posted my cover version of the Gary Numan track "Replicas" on my iCompositions page. You can access that and 30+ other songs I have on there via the link below:

Gary Hunter On iCompositions

Gary Hunter Official Myspace Site

Gary

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