Beck’s Record Club Covers Skip Spence’s Oar
Written by pistachionut on Sunday, 6 of December , 2009 at 2:38 pm
Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens.
This is Beck’s manifesto for Record Club. The first two projects were The Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground & Nico and Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Leonard Cohen. Following that up, Beck has set to work on covering Alexander Skip Spence’s 1969 album Oar. Skip Spence was a former member of Jefferson Airplane, and the guitarist of Moby Grape. Oar was originally recorded on a three-track recorder in Spence’s living room. The original is a hauntingly beautiful work, a predecessor of Grizzly Bear and almost any contemporary group with psych-folk influences. Beck’s cover version of “Little Hands” incorporates a large deal of talented musicians. Joining Beck are Jamie Lidell, Feist and Spencer Tweedy (yes, Jeff’s son). The cover doesn’t stray far from the original, but that’s not really the target. Beck does just what he sets out to do: he gets a group of interesting musicians in the studio and documents what happens. Take a listen to both the original and the cover below.
Beck – Little Hands (Skip Spence cover ft. Feist, Jamie Lidell)
Alexander Skip Spence – Little Hands
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