Great tune.  One of my favorites of theirs.  Very nice effort.  

Just returned from business trip and was surprised to see all the nice comments on this song thread.  Must be a lot of L&M fans.
 
Danny - Really appreciate your help on this one, as you mention, some of it was OK but you really cleaned up the bottom end.  It was really a mess prior to your help.  When I A/B my original to the mix with your suggestions the result is night and day.  Really outstanding input and thanks again.
 
Dan - Thanks for the comment, it was tough and fun at the same time.   Appreciate you listening.
 
FreddyJ - Glad you like the song even though not a L&M fan.  Appreciate your comments on the instrumentation.   I am sure the Vox were tough too but I only had to mix them, not record and sing them;) 
 
Alkie/Alan - Thanks, glad you like it.
 
Pete - Appreciate your comment.   Not a million dollar studio, just my home office, unfortunately;(   I really like the sound of the 70's recordings and all the groups you mention, and was shooting for that target.  Thanks for listening.
 
Manny - Appreciate the comment.   I am sure Robby has framed your comment about the vocals over his computer monitor;)  Overwhelming is a good description.  I am not sure what prompted L&M to turn the song into a 7:40 jam but it is a cool song.  Seemingly they had a lot of instruments laying around the studio they wanted to add to the mix;)   Glad you like it,  Dirty Work would be a good song to cover, just listened to it for reference.   Maybe we'll do it.  I have another Van Halen cover in the works and have started on Money by Pink Floyd.   At some point I would like to post some originals but am working on mixing skills right now.  So many good songs to learn from I am hesitant to post originals until I can do them justice.  Thanks again.

Regards
 
 
 
 

Not familiar with the original, but this sounded great! Loved the brass and the organ. Everything fitting very good together.

I'm amazed too, and I'm part of it? We have talent, and technology and the combination makes tasty jam's like this one :-) Damn it feels good to be a gangster...
 

great stuff Mark -
never heard it before (too busy listening to ELO in the UK in 1972) but this has made me want to find out more

This is proof that you can get a nice warm mix with digital gear. This sounds analog to me. Great mix! Love the guitars, vocals and everything else. Impressive piece of work.

Very nice mix!  Very classic sounding.  I hear every instrument, but what's even greater, is I hear it as if it were off a 1970's LP saved to a nice Chome II tape!  :-) 
 
Not over mastered (or as I coined some years back, 'Smashtered') or over compressed. 
 
Excellent separation on everything.  Hey, that's not Ron Burgundy on the flute?  ;-) 
 
If you are trying to stay true to the era, Don't TOUCH IT! 
If, however, you wanted to bring it into 2013, then a little high-end sweetening with some BBE or Aural Exciter or PSP-WARMER on the entire mix (or carefully, at the mastering stage), you'd enter this century.  Should you?  No rules say you have to. 
 
Best to you!  Will be sure to look for more of your mixes as they pop up.  Nice going!  (Never heard the tune, either, so that was a nice treat alone!)
 
Be well,
As Always,
FR

Scott -  Thanks for the comment.  Appreciate it.   Enjoying your Christmas CD this afternoon.  
 
Old55 - Thank you, appreciate your listening.  I am glad we did one of your favorite L&M tunes up to expectation.
 
Leizer - Thanks, appreciate it.   The brass and organ are Kontakt samples.   I am pretty impressed with most of them...
 
Olemon - Thanks, the guitar parts were a lot of fun.   Got to try out my new Line6 HD500 on this one.    L&M have an alternate tuning on this song which took me a while to figure out.   Two E strings are tuned down to D.
 
Bob - Good to hear from you.   Appreciate it.  Couple more 70's covers in the works, then heading to the 80's;)
 
Daryl - Thanks for the listen.  There are some nice live videos of L&M on YouTube that are fairly recent.   They have a spectacular band. 
 
Clint - Thanks.   We were going for a vintage 70's sound so glad we accomplished that.   Using Waves Kramer Tape and SSL Console/SSL Bus Compressor on this one.  I think it gives it a nice analogue feel.
 
FR - Thanks, I know what you mean about over-compression, did it for years.    I may err on the side of too little compression as a result;(   Appreciate your comments on the mix, it was a bit of a challenge but very educational.   We were going for a vintage sound but I get your suggestion for a more 2013 sound.      Might be interesting to try it out.   Thanks again.

Regards
    
 

The Band19
No love for your colab partner?

 
Robby is the best collaborative partner in the known universe, excellent piano/organ/bass/misc instrument player, and holds the keys to the best Chili recipe in the Northern Hemisphere;)
 
There you go.......   You have my PayPal account information 
 
Seriously though, good job, I would have never thought to do this song and am glad we did.   Learned a lot on this one.  Your contributions were invaluable.
 
Regards

I think it's good for a few more? Not by the haters of course? But by the non-haterers who have not yet enjoyed it?

I had the good fortune to have heard L & M do this live several times, so I know this song well.  Your have done your homework in regards to getting most of the nuances of the original in your cover.  The mixing and mastering is super.  Unfortunately, the passion of the performances don't quite translate for me.  I don't hear the anger.  In spite of the incredible skill that went into this, it's a little "paint by numbers" sounding to me.  However, if one has never heard the original, this would be a masterpiece.

Oh and Scotty hovers above us all, like some kind of a *#&! musical UFO... (I hate him (not really, but perhaps secretly), no one should have that much talent.) It's too much power in one man's hands, there should be laws.

Just catching up with this one.
I've always liked the way this song moves around, and you guys did a great job on it.
A very enjoyable listen.

If I were king of the forest? I would pull back some of the guitars in my left ear, and or pull back a bit of their attack? I've listened many times ;-) Merry Christmas Mark!! To you and yours.
 
BUT! I'm getting new buds tomorrow as I don't have the rubber thingy that goes around the little speaker right now? So don't take anything I say as Gospel? But I throw it out there anyway.