Written in the wake of John Lennon's first encounters with LSD, its metaphorical language and richly textured musical backdrop – the basic track recorded, then slowed down, the vocals multi-tracked and set against a droning guitar and pulsing bass – was an evocation of the hallucinogenic experience.
Then he laid down another basic track with himself on drums.
The basic track etching parameters of silicon dioxide and silicon nitride were studied and appropriate irradiation conditions were obtained.
As Joshua Rifkin, the pioneer of this theory, put it, the ripieno part "functioned like an overdub added at strategic points to a basic track".
We're delighted to be able to bring you the first track from that companion disc here – the basic track of Black Dog, with guitar overdubs.
There's a great live version of Paranoid featuring both Ozzy and Metallica, but the basic track has been used before – suggesting that without innovation in other departments, the series is simply running out of guitar styles to ape.
My base case view is that we'll see a rebound in the second and third quarter and beyond and that we'll stay on the basic track that has been our story, our narrative here, for the last year or more.
I had to very carefully label each folder because I was paranoid that I might end up with the same basic track for each group and I wouldn't notice until it was too late.
"It was chaos," remembers Rother, while Dinger says: "After two days we hadn't recorded anything we could use". Then on the third day they played the basic track of Negativland, which became the template for future operations.
But some of his officers say it was common to grab what seemed the best chart and run down the center of the basic track, as the San Francisco did.
Often, I'm sent the basic track or demo and am left alone in relative freedom to make my own choices," says Buckmaster. "On the first three Elton John albums, Elton gave [the late producer] Gus Dudgeon and me total freedom; the only part which was never arranged was Elton's piano.
