Lost for a while after Cobain's death, he distracted himself by making a 15-song tape, playing all the instruments and doing the vocals himself.
He recorded it in the Cartoon Network studios, providing the vocals himself, and played it for the channel's executives.
He did the vocals himself but, for the first time in his long career, left all the instrumental work to others.
The warm vocals of Morgan Kibby that did much to define Saturdays = Youth are largely gone, with Gonzalez contributing more vocals himself, emboldened by touring with the likes of the Killers, Kings of Leon and Depeche Mode.
He decided to take on the role of lead vocals himself in the absence of Lynott, and persuaded Scott Gorham, Brian Downey and Darren Wharton to return to the fold.
One benefit of that arrangement was that Micky was able to record all the backing vocals himself -- and on some of these tracks there are a lot of backing vocals.
There has been speculation that McGuinn's decision to re-record Parsons' lead vocals himself was not entirely motivated by the threat of legal action, but by a desire to decrease Parsons' presence on the album.
Yankovic performed most of the vocals himself, and to make sure that he stayed on key, a scratch guitar track was recorded; when the song was mixed, the guitar track was removed.
While the legal problems were being resolved, McGuinn replaced three of Parsons' lead vocals with his own singing, a move that still infuriated Parsons as late as 1973, when he told Cameron Crowe in an interview that McGuinn "erased it and did the vocals himself and fucked it up".
So David Robertson, who was to have conducted the work, turned his baton over to an assistant and undertook the vocal part himself.
