Tracks in Isolation

Studio Multitracks - Tracks in Isolation is an intersting music blog where Henry posts well-known songs on which one or several tracks has been separeted from the multitracks of the finished product. For example if you have been waiting all your life to hear just the vocals from Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages", or just Debbie Harry's vocal track to "Hanging on the Telephone" (at least some of it), or if you are a slut for Eddie Van Halen' guitar work on Michael Jackson's "Beat It", or as in my case loves to listen to the Vocals/Keyboard/Bass/Drums/Guitar Solo tracks of The Carpenters "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" this is the place for You!


Helter Skelter (guitar track, drums and some leaked other things)

Stimulate My Dendrites

Anaesthesiologist from Lafayette, Indiana with dubious musical abilities + multitracking equipment + vanity record label + version of "Anatomy Rag" (song that begins with the lyric "Stimulate My Dendrites") = Here's Harley: A record of a Man Playing With Himself

Clip Shows Les Paul Inventing Modern Music

Les Paul died yesterday, as you probably know. Not only did he design the first commercially successful soldibody electric (made in my hometown of Kalamazoo, Mich. until Gibson abandoned us in 1984), he invented multi-track recording. Instead of just recording music, he used recording processes in making sound that musicians couldn't do alone.

You could blame him for over-produced Auto-Tuned crap, but that would be like blaming the inventor of gunpowder for Hiroshima.

Above a 1953 clip of Paul and Mary Ford astounding Allstair Cooke with magnetic tape.