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Graham Mitchell (The Moody Blues) : We had three hours to record Go Now (at Monarch Studio, London) and the B-side, we had just a stereo machine and we were bumping from track to track crossing over, doing the mono recording. We got the B-side finished, and we were just finishing off the last thirty seconds and the poor old engineer hit the wrong button and he wiped the last thirty seconds so we had half an hour left and we had to re-record the whole song in that time.
Over the years afterwards a lot of people thought we were really cool because the last line is "if you've got to go you'd better go now" and it sort of disappears down into an echo and disappears really quickly and everyone thought that was a really cool effect for Go Now and thought we'd figured it out.
In fact what had happened was that all the singers held the last note for a period of time and then somebody gave the cut-off signal and the guy who was singing falsetto missed it so it goes: Go Now! Everyone stops – "aaah!" So the only way we could get rid of that because we had no time left was just do that super-quick fade and put a load of echo on it and that was really just to cover up a balls-up.
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Over the years afterwards a lot of people thought we were really cool because the last line is "if you've got to go you'd better go now" and it sort of disappears down into an echo and disappears really quickly and everyone thought that was a really cool effect for Go Now and thought we'd figured it out.
In fact what had happened was that all the singers held the last note for a period of time and then somebody gave the cut-off signal and the guy who was singing falsetto missed it so it goes: Go Now! Everyone stops – "aaah!" So the only way we could get rid of that because we had no time left was just do that super-quick fade and put a load of echo on it and that was really just to cover up a balls-up.
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