MarkusClinus
Dan, that is really fantastic - you are one talented dude - just great.
 
On a side note - one of my previous business partners (and still good friend) was the manager for the main singer for Three Dog Night. Unfortunately - that singer was a major heroin addict. At the time my buddy was living with Tanya Tucker - who happens to be a complete loony tune. But, I digress.
 
Cool song.

Thanks Mark! Humbled by your praise and I certainly appreciate it.
 
Regards,
Dan

I remember the band 3 Dog Night.... I was never a big fan of them and as a result, unfortunately,  only remember the radio hits they did.
 
However, your cover of this tune is excellent.  Everything is in place like it needs to be. Musicianship is top notch. 
 
One thing that really used to bug me as a musician back in the day was the lack of low end on many of the band's music back in the day. Not all, but some.  You could hear the bass but couldn't really feel it. Not on their studio work. You pointed this out when referring to the B3 in the original.
 
Yes, very nice work indeed.

Nice sound.  Has that retro sound.

Hi Dan,
 
I also agree you are a very talented and versatile musician. I always enjoy listening to your material, even if it's a cover. This is a good example of your production mastery in the ways you are able to take something and bring it in a different direction by adding things to it. Awesome!

dan
 
so cool.
 
3 dog night is one of my alltime favorites,
especially the first 6 albums, and naturally was a favorite.
 
i always dug that they had a black drummer, and to this day, still one of my favorite drummers.
in my young young brain, i thought this made them a superior band, having a black drummer.
LOL
 
Hey, i grew up in jackson mississippi, surrounded by rank racism, and the Klan, and i just loved this band more because of it.
 
and ended up spending 5 years on the road with a black bass player and a puerto rican drummer with a giant afro!
LOL again.......
 
all this stupid story, ties into digging 3 dog night, and back to your song:
 
 
you caught the element of the mix, which was the biggest thing about this.......
it was one of their first self-written songs, an instrumental, and they managed to get it on the album DESPITE the record company!! quite a coup d'état
 
so, your mix is true to the original mix, with a lot of studio reverb...
and the spring on keys, it's very authentic.
maybe the omnisphere is giving it that overall polished 70's vibe, 
whatever it is, it's nice.
 
 
folks might notice the heavy fuzz guitar thru some of the sections....
recorded in 1970 originally, that fuzz was integral to making the band sound heavier....
and you nailed that tone.
nice job.
nice covering mike allsup's guitar parts too, he was a greatly undersung player, 
 
if you did those drums by hand, wow, that was a labor of love.
 
and i love, that you did some of your own thing in there,
what you added of original stuff, fits completely in with everything else..
someone that doesn't know that song backwards and forwards like i do, would never know the difference, it blends so smoothly.
 
 
thanks for a trip back to 1970, that was bad @ss.

Guitarhacker
I remember the band 3 Dog Night.... I was never a big fan of them and as a result, unfortunately,  only remember the radio hits they did.
 
However, your cover of this tune is excellent.  Everything is in place like it needs to be. Musicianship is top notch. 
 
One thing that really used to bug me as a musician back in the day was the lack of low end on many of the band's music back in the day. Not all, but some.  You could hear the bass but couldn't really feel it. Not on their studio work. You pointed this out when referring to the B3 in the original.
 
Yes, very nice work indeed.

Thanks Herb! I made sure to put some kick in the kick, as it were.
 
Regards,
Dan

Starise
Hi Dan,
 
I also agree you are a very talented and versatile musician. I always enjoy listening to your material, even if it's a cover. This is a good example of your production mastery in the ways you are able to take something and bring it in a different direction by adding things to it. Awesome!

Thanks Tim! I really appreciate the kind words.
 
Regards,
Dan

 
 

batsbrew
dan
 
so cool.
 
3 dog night is one of my alltime favorites,
especially the first 6 albums, and naturally was a favorite.
 
i always dug that they had a black drummer, and to this day, still one of my favorite drummers.
in my young young brain, i thought this made them a superior band, having a black drummer.
LOL

 
I grew up in Texas and was in a cover band that had a black drummer. He wasn't fancy, but he sure knew how to groove.
 

batsbrew 
Hey, i grew up in jackson mississippi, surrounded by rank racism, and the Klan, and i just loved this band more because of it.
 
and ended up spending 5 years on the road with a black bass player and a puerto rican drummer with a giant afro!
LOL again.......
 
all this stupid story, ties into digging 3 dog night, and back to your song:
 
 
you caught the element of the mix, which was the biggest thing about this.......
it was one of their first self-written songs, an instrumental, and they managed to get it on the album DESPITE the record company!! quite a coup d'état
 
so, your mix is true to the original mix, with a lot of studio reverb...
and the spring on keys, it's very authentic.
maybe the omnisphere is giving it that overall polished 70's vibe, 
whatever it is, it's nice.
 
 
folks might notice the heavy fuzz guitar thru some of the sections....
recorded in 1970 originally, that fuzz was integral to making the band sound heavier....
and you nailed that tone.
nice job.
nice covering mike allsup's guitar parts too, he was a greatly undersung player, 
 

 
I had a lot of fun working on those solos. It was hard to get the right vibe, and my feel is certainly different from his. Wish I'd have had my old Fuzzface for this though, lol.
 

batsbrew
 
if you did those drums by hand, wow, that was a labor of love.
 

 
It was! I do all of my drum tracks by hand, and I love doing them.
 

batsbrew
 
and i love, that you did some of your own thing in there,
what you added of original stuff, fits completely in with everything else..
someone that doesn't know that song backwards and forwards like i do, would never know the difference, it blends so smoothly.
 
 
thanks for a trip back to 1970, that was bad @ss.

Thanks Bat! Glad you enjoyed it. I've wanted to do this for a very long time. I don't normally do covers, at least not since 1985 or so, but I just loved this song so much, and I just started using VB3, so it was sort of inevitable.
 
Regards,
Dan
 
 

i'll tell you a good one to cover,
if you wanna keep exercising the vb3...
"Easy to be Hard"
 
 
"Liar" would be another.
 
i'd be willing to TRY to sing either one of those for you, if you covered em
 
 

Wow Dan! What an amazing job on this song! Love the sound of that vb3. Those leads sounded great too. Very good interplay between the left and right channel. You can tell that you spent some time on this. It paid off. I can't think of one single critique. It was great. Thank you for posting this!