The Clash - Are You Ready For War (Rebooted)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Here's a word from Gerald Manns who remixed/rebooted this..."Well, like everyone I was extremely disappointed when CTC was released in 1985. I knew the new songs from different bootlegs, like Bring The House Down, Five Alive etc. All the years after I was hoping for the existence of some mastertapes that were smuggled out of the studio in munich by a mindful technician. But literature that was released decades later showed that Paul and Pete didn't take part in the recordings.
Last year I found two different audio editing softwares with different algorithms to separate vocals from an existing audio recording. The De-Berniator idea was born. So after ripping Joe's vocals from the tracks, cleaning them up (a lot of noisy bits, especially in The Dictator, had to be removed).
Next step was to get a good live performance of every song, copying Pete's drums beat by beat into a drum machine that sampled original drum sounds.
On songs The Clash didn't perform live I had to lay down the tracks in a Pete Howard stylee by myself. After that came listening, learning, rehearsing and recording guitars and basslines.
To get a better sound I had to buy a Les Paul to differ from my Telecaster sound (nice axe to have anyway). I had to add some backing vocals because the algorithms swallowed some of the football chants (didn't make them out as vocals). It took me a while to mix it all, but now it was time to kick it out of my house.
Especially in different Facebook groups are a lot of hate regarding the last line-up of The Clash. I think these were quite descent songs and a lot of fun to listen to now. For me, this is the CTC I expected and hoped for when it was released in 1985.
Feel free to spread these recordings wherever you like, maybe it will shine a better light on the last line-up.
Have fun!"
GMAN
I think you have done a fantastic job with these tracks. I had a bootleg of the Brixton Academy gig which I went to when all these tunes were originally played live, and the band's delivery of every song that night was stunning, really raw and loud in your face stuff. The album itself was rather disappointing when it came out, and your versions of the songs, which were all really decent tunes when originally played live, have finally brought justice and proper representation to the whole body of work. Extremely well done, thank you 👍👏
Thank you very much!
Why are YOU thanking them? Who are you?
@@zeppelinaissa-zh8dfhe made these (Gerald), John just put them out there.
@@louisk8125 Oh! Got it.
Fantastic work @mutantproof
You even added the Nick Sheppard DJ scratch guitar part! I love Clash II, and I love what you've done here. So cool.
Wow! Amazing what you did here. With all the “crap” stripped out, it’s almost a Clash album.
He actually DID cut out all the crap. Amazing.
First class job.
brilliant. I have to say I like Cut The Crap as it is but think it's FANTASTIC that you've went to the effort of doing this.
All credit to Mr Gerald Manns whose project it was.
In my opinion the best reboot or the album, had great potential, such as North and South, Movers and Shakers and Cool under Heat, couldve been a great song
'And everywhere you go the answer is yes' to this fantastic reboot. I'm glad you ' Did it now' . There is a God of music.
Great work. Still, the band wasn’t really in a healthy place, but this is infinitely more tolerable and interesting than what the actual output from Joe and co. This song is a lot of fun
It’s crazy how good this is, I consider it part of their official studio albums!
Scratch that guitar, drop the albatross, raise the flag, let’s rock with Joe ggggreat job folks!
Really great effort. Love what you've done here.
Cool cool cool!
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my only complaint about these reboots is that I feel there could have been more bass, other than that - sterling work!