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2018/12/15 15:33:05 (permalink)

Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy

This is a remake/cover of the Dixie Dregs song, Night Meets Light, that I just recently finished mixing and mastering a couple of weeks ago.
 
My friend, Mike Reidy, plays the guitar parts, and the remaining instruments were played/sequenced up by me on my keyboards (violin, keys, bass, and drums).  Transcribing the drums took me almost 3 weeks, because they are different pretty much all through the song.  Then, near the end, the drums get pretty active, and that was a challenge to faithfully decipher.
 
Mike and I picked this song to do, because we both love its beauty and flow, and we also used it to get better at the whole music production thing.  We didn't realize up front, that there are about a zillion meter changes, all through the song.  When Steve Morse wrote it, he didn't realize it either - he just sort of wrote it from the melody, and it all sprung forth from there.
 
I hope you guys like it :)
 
https://youtu.be/YoR2sxUSEbE
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/15 23:16:43 (permalink)
Very well done! From the quintessential jazz-rock fusion album. At least it is to me. There isn't a mediocre song on it.
 
I'm curious as to why you tried to duplicate the drums though. Why not just do your own thing with them?
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/16 15:13:52 (permalink)
Quite a task I would imagine, but you've certainly done it justice, this is really good! Bass sounds great, nice work there, and top marks for the guitar playing.

 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/16 17:32:08 (permalink)
Sounds good here Bob, nice job

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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/16 18:34:37 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby robert_e_bone 2019/01/15 07:55:42
Well done Bob (and Mike)!
 
Great to hear this song again! Take it Off the Top from the same album was my introduction to Dixie Dregs when Tommy Vance used it as his Friday Rock Show opener.
 
It must have been a labour of love to get all the parts sounding how they should. Mike even managed to get Steve's signature vibrato sound. I have the utmost respect for anyone who attempts a cover of anything by Dixie Dregs/Steve Morse so hats off to you both.

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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/17 13:39:15 (permalink)
Hi Bob and Mike,
 
Nice job covering this one, love the bass and guitar playing.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
Good Job!
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/17 13:59:10 (permalink)
Great job putting this together Bob! Very complex piece.
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/17 23:42:03 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby robert_e_bone 2019/01/15 07:56:17
one of my favorite dregs tunes,
i've been dregs fans since before they had their first album out.
 
i like how you guys tried to keep the 'vibe' of this close to the original,
it's a very light and wistful tune, til it's not!
LOL
 
ken scott produced the original,
it's one of the reasons i dig that album so much...
 
this cover sounds like a work of love.
everything is treated with respect, and it sounds wonderful.
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/18 04:54:59 (permalink)
Hey - sorry for not getting back here - I have been CRAZY busy working up the presets for a Genesis tribute project I am launching here from Chicago, heading out this Spring.
 
Thank you ALL for your kind words.  My friend, Mike Reidy, and I picked Night Meets Light to cover, because we both have a deep love and appreciation for the Dixie Dregs and Steve Morse, and for that song - and we wanted to get better at music production, so we picked a song with lots of challenges, where beyond the music itself, we could actually get a bit of a measurable comparative on how well we did - against the original.  
 
Certain things were different - I thought there was a bit too much reverb on the original, so that was toned down, and I have a few levels tweaked here and there - a bit more low end in our cover, for example.
 
For ME, the hardest two challenges were: 1) Trying to faithfully transcribe the drums, because of all the meter changes and because they are incredibly melodic and building to flat-out insane in the ending guitar solo section, and 2) Trying to get the sampled sounds I triggered with midi (all parts but the guitars - bass, drums, keys, and violin), to sound real AND approximate the playing done by the real instruments from the original song.  The drums, in particular, were run through a boatload of hardware, but the attention to detail in the transcription and sequencing of the drums REALLY paid off, and I think they came out pretty well.
 
Again, for Mike and I, the whole project was a combo of a labor of love for the song, and a means for us to get better at music production, and have some sort of way of gauging the success or failure of our efforts.  We both learned a TON of stuff, and will be leaping into the fray again with some original music, once I get the Genesis project closer to launch.  THAT is really coming along as well - I just spent a few hours this past Saturday, working with the drummer on the Seconds Out version of Firth of Fifth - that middle section has some brutal meter changes, one measure after another at a different meter.
 
Anyways - I will jump in later tonight, in the wee hours, and give some other songs a listen and some feedback - thanks again to all.  :)
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/20 13:57:24 (permalink)
Wow man, I dig it.  I love Morse's playing and I like how the guitar covered it.  I'm really impressed with the drum programming.
 
What can you say about the Genesis trib band?  Who's in it?  I know some of the Chicago prog guys.

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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/20 17:05:15 (permalink)
Wow Bob, you guys have done great job on this. I see that you started this back in 2012 (listening to Fainting in Coils as well) so this certainly is a labour of love (and it shows). Love the Dregs and it's no joke trying to cover them.
 
Excellent job by both of you!!

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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/20 20:57:03 (permalink)
Thanks, Mesh - and all who listened and posted.  Your kind comments really make me feel pretty happy.
 
Mesh - I have tried and failed, to find a way to decipher the initial guitar solo that Allan Holdsworth played for Fainting in Coils.  The notes get pretty buried in the weeds of the mix, when he goes low, and I have never found anyone willing to tackle transcribing that solo for me.
 
I may well take another crack at figuring out that Fainting in Coils song - I have some pieces fairly well tracked - but definitely need the guitar solo, and also some bizarre little keyboard stabs with bends, during that solo.  I will see if  can finish that song up, as well as get a good finished version of Jean Luc Ponty's Mirage posted, as well as the UK song In the Dead of Night.
 
THEN, I plan on spending a good chunk of the winter writing - and finishing songs I have already started - that are my own compositions, in addition to the Genesis tribute project.
 
I am not quite ready to share info on the Genesis project, though in a month or so, should be able to start sharing info on that.  
 
Merry Everything to Everyone, 
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2018/12/20 21:10:30 (permalink)
Looking forward to listening to your work Bob.
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2019/01/15 08:02:01 (permalink)
I just want to say THANK YOU ALL, for taking the time to not only listen to this cover of a great prog song, but also for taking the time to give me feedback on it.  I TRULY appreciate all the kind words.
 
Of course, now I MUST take another crack at figuring out the 1st guitar solo by Allan Holdsworth, on the Bruford - Fainting In Coils song, from One of a Kind (my 2nd/3rd favorite album of all time).  I will circle back to this recreation project, and see if I can do it justice - I will be playing the guitar lead with my keyboards, so that will be one SERIOUS challenge.
 
Thanks to all for the motivation to continue my efforts - Fainting in Coils WILL be conquered, or at least talked nicely to, and attempted......
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2019/01/15 10:39:24 (permalink)
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Very well done! From the quintessential jazz-rock fusion album. At least it is to me. There isn't a mediocre song on it.
 
I'm curious as to why you tried to duplicate the drums though. Why not just do your own thing with them?
 
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Well, we were primarily interested in learning while using this project to cover many bases in that quest.  I chose to try to faithfully transcribe the drums, because of the challenge, and for what I learned in the process.
 
Thanks for listening, and for your feedback.
 
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Re: Night Meets Light - a Dixie Dregs Cover - recorded by Robert Bone and Mike Reidy 2019/01/16 16:21:40 (permalink)
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