Fact #160626
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What You Get Is What You See by Tina Turner enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No30. The track is produced by songwriter Terry Britten.
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Terry Britten : When Eric Clapton arrived to play on What You Get Is What You See, I was just overawed. The first thing he said to me was, "You should have done the guitar on this. I don't know why you want me to play". Tina also said to me, "You should be doing the guitar on this, its your time." I never quite understood what she meant at the time. So Eric arrives with this little Gallien Kruger amp, Fender guitar, sets up in five minutes flat, and there's this almighty guitar sound. Now I've got this little Gallien Kruger amp, and a Fender guitar, and it sounds nothing like that.
So here you are, trying to tell this guy whose been your hero for how long, what to play. Very difficult, because you’re suddenly overwhelmed by all your feelings. I cant tell you. He played so well. I was just listening to him play, and I forgot about the track. His tone. Whenever I'd seen him playing he looked like he was very cool, and just sort of touching the strings. A very easy attitude. I sat next to him while he played, and I could not believe how hard he was hitting the strings. I was just knocked out by the tone he was getting.
After the session, I picked up his guitar and had a play, and it sounded like Terry Britten playing a Fender through A Gallien Kruger amp, which just proves once again what we all know- it’s not the gear but the player.
Then a funny thing happened after he left. I put the track up, put in the vocal, and realised I had made an almighty mistake. The register of the guitar part was the same as Tina's voice, and the two were fighting. In fact it would have been better up an octave. We had to go back to plot one, which is that I played the guitar, as we couldn't get him back. It was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. Luckily we managed to use all his guitar parts on the 12" version of 'What you get is what you see', but despite the fact that the song was a big hit, my dream of having him play on it was shattered by my own problem of not being able to get over the hero worship thing, and just to be totally detached. I learnt my lesson from that because when Steve Winwood, who is another of my heroes, came in the next week to do a minimoog solo, I didn't make the same mistake. Now when I listen back to that session, its just fantastic.
(Source : interview with Andrew Brel in Home Studio And Recording magazine, June 1993)
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So here you are, trying to tell this guy whose been your hero for how long, what to play. Very difficult, because you’re suddenly overwhelmed by all your feelings. I cant tell you. He played so well. I was just listening to him play, and I forgot about the track. His tone. Whenever I'd seen him playing he looked like he was very cool, and just sort of touching the strings. A very easy attitude. I sat next to him while he played, and I could not believe how hard he was hitting the strings. I was just knocked out by the tone he was getting.
After the session, I picked up his guitar and had a play, and it sounded like Terry Britten playing a Fender through A Gallien Kruger amp, which just proves once again what we all know- it’s not the gear but the player.
Then a funny thing happened after he left. I put the track up, put in the vocal, and realised I had made an almighty mistake. The register of the guitar part was the same as Tina's voice, and the two were fighting. In fact it would have been better up an octave. We had to go back to plot one, which is that I played the guitar, as we couldn't get him back. It was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. Luckily we managed to use all his guitar parts on the 12" version of 'What you get is what you see', but despite the fact that the song was a big hit, my dream of having him play on it was shattered by my own problem of not being able to get over the hero worship thing, and just to be totally detached. I learnt my lesson from that because when Steve Winwood, who is another of my heroes, came in the next week to do a minimoog solo, I didn't make the same mistake. Now when I listen back to that session, its just fantastic.
(Source : interview with Andrew Brel in Home Studio And Recording magazine, June 1993)