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From: Wieland Willker <willker@chemie.uni-bremen.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 11:47:28 -0100
Subject: How to become a Katective. (old, but good)
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More on How to become a Katective: Fom IED (who never sleeps) on June '86: "Frank brings up another extremely interesting point about the barely audible details in "Watching You Without Me", on which I think I can shed some light. At the very beginning, two male voices can be heard speaking. After many fruitless listenings, it suddenly hit me what was going on. If you count along with the beat from the very first down-beat of the recording, voicing only the first beat of each bar (that is, voicing ONE {two-three-four} TWO {two-three-four}, etc.) up to eight -- the length of the rhythmic introduction of the song -- you will then have the solution. Almost immediately you'll hear one musician ask "What's that?" He means, "What bar is that?" Then, at bar four, that same musician calls out "four" -- but he calls it out on the third, rather than the first beat of that bar. Another musician then confirms the beat, on the FIRST beat of bar five. Following this, you can hear them counting out the first beats of bars six, seven and eight in unison. This was probably recorded quite early on in the rehearsals, and probably at the original "demo" stage of recording. However, knowing Kate's perfectionism, and the classic character of this exchange, it's just possible that it was actually a staged re-recording of an incident similar to many that must have occurred during the original demo stages of the recording." It's there! But you have to listen at high volume! Best wishes Wieland