February 1999 Edition
CroTech Finishes Recording Of Neil Diamond's "I Am I Said".
CroTech finished the recording of the Neil Diamond Song "I Am I Said." John finished up the vocals for the song and Producer Pete Mazich added an amazing background vocal arrangement to the song's chorus.
"It was pretty good to be back into the studio and start working on the songs again. I thought the long layoff would really make it troublesome. The vocals went really quickly until we got into the backing vocal arrangement. It was really weird. Pete and I were listening back to the playback when we both turned to each other and basically sang the same background arrangement to each other. But he took it a step farther as only Pete could do. That's why he's producing it. The final arrangement just blew me away. Hard to believe it us. I think we did Neil proud." John explained. The song is the only cover song that will appear on the forecoming long awaited CD. "Yeah the song was a joke when I first played it for Tone and Jerry at a rehersal, it wasn't even supposed to be on the CD. We were originally going to record our hybrid of "With Or Without You / So Lonely", but the song got better and better during rehersals. When we finally did it in the studio just to se how it would sound, everyone in the place said that we have to record the song. So we did." adds John. "I Am I Said" is available to listen too using RealPlayer on the CroTech web page at the LISTENING BOOTH page.
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