Take It to the Bridge

'Take It to the Bridge'
(from the album: 'Take It to the Bridge' 2009)

Drums & percussion: Steve Wilson
Bass: Richie Blake
Guitar: Cliff Moore
Rhodes & Hammond: Paul Raymond
Backing vocals: Abby Tweddle, Danni Douel & Lexie Raymond
Lead vocal: Kelly Griggs
Saxophones: Paul Raymond
Flugel horn: Gary Alesbrook
Spoken: Liam
Engineer: Tony Hobden
Production & mix: Paul Raymond

The title track from the new album: a full ensemble piece featuring the rhythm section, horns and singers. The flugel horn solo is performed by Gary Alesbrook (pictured above), backing vocals by Abby, Danni (pictured above) and Lexie. And finally, the lead vocal is by Kelly Griggs.

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Drums, bass and keys were recorded live in a newly set up recording studio based in an old church. We started out in the main live room, which Tony, our sound engineer had raved about, saying what a fantastic natural reverb there was. Unfortunately, fantastic though it was, it was too much and we couldn't work with it, we couldn't hear ourselves yet alone each other, so after wasting the best part of three hours, we hastily set up the drums in the tiny drum booth and the bass and keys in the control room. After all that wasted time, we nailed the basic rhythm track on the first take.

Richie took away the session and re-recorded the bass part and we added guitar parts in the studio and some of the sax parts. Below is a video of Richie talking about the bass part.

http://rapidshare.com/files/176963576/Dr_Sax...Take_It_to_the_Bridge.mp3