This is one of Supertramp's first big radio hits, and the companion piece to the album track "School," which I posted earlier this year. Supertramp has two different lead singers. Since I sang on "School," decided to enlist Sergio to give this track the other voice. His style gives the song more of a rock attitude and a different sense of musicality than the original IMO. The backing parts and improv stuff is really cool. Have a nice sounding electric piano font, which just begged to be used for a song like this. The backer was built from midi and I added the bass and guitar parts.

What an awesome sound, great mix! Vocals were superb! guitars too! You rocked guys!:thumb: To my ears it sounded as though the song is difficult to nail in timing terms, but you definiteley nailed this!!!

Very nice! I've had this on the back burner for a year. Now I can throw it out! Glad to see this covered.. Great work here guys!!!:thumb:

It's great to hear my fovorite band covered.This is great job man,Roger Hodgson is not an easy to sing but u did it great.Joe's works are also EXCLNT:rock:

Very nice! I've had this on the back burner for a year. Now I can throw it out! Glad to see this covered.. Great work here guys!!!:thumb:

Thanks guys! Hey, strat, if you have any other Supertramp songs you'd like to do, I'd volunteer to play bass and let you do the guitar parts. Serg mentioned being interested in singing another one of their tracks! Send a PM anytime.

Thanks guys! Hey, strat, if you have any other Supertramp songs you'd like to do, I'd volunteer to play bass and let you do the guitar parts. Serg mentioned being interested in singing another one of their tracks! Send a PM anytime.

I'm wrapped up at the moment.. If anything comes up I will definitely let you know!!:thumb: :thumb:

Very cool guys! A great cover of an awesome song!:thumb:

did i enjoy this. you bloody well right i did

very cool cover guys! Never heard the song before but i really enjoyed this recording:yourock:

Great work with the BT and Sergio rocked as much as i could possibly expect comming from him:rock:

Hey Ksdb, could you send me the soundfont for the electric piano? sounds really good! gtarist7@gmail.com Thanks!!

very cool cover guys! Never heard the song before but i really enjoyed this recording:yourock:

Great work with the BT and Sergio rocked as much as i could possibly expect comming from him:rock:

Hey Ksdb, could you send me the soundfont for the electric piano? sounds really good! gtarist7@gmail.com Thanks!!

Thanks for the kind comments.

GT, I was wrong about that being a soundfont. It's actually a stand-alone VST. Here's links where I downloaded it. It's a freebie (there's other good stuff at the parent site too):

Mr. Tramp VST (http://www.soundfonts.it/?a=read&b=20)

Supertramp was one of the first bands I was exposed to thanks to my sister many years ago. I still have all of them vinyls here at home. Tough subject to cover. This was good, you guys deffinately poured your souls on it, but I felt some off timing on the tracks, (I´m sure it´s not you guys) it´s just the aligning of them all tracks in whatever daw.

Supertramp was one of the first bands I was exposed to thanks to my sister many years ago. I still have all of them vinyls here at home. Tough subject to cover. This was good, you guys deffinately poured your souls on it, but I felt some off timing on the tracks, (I´m sure it´s not you guys) it´s just the aligning of them all tracks in whatever daw.

That's a pretty good observation. I get a lot of latency and syncing issues and often go back to resync things, but sometimes you don't catch everything. Also, I notice my system sometimes 'stutters' during the recording process where a drum track or keyboard track gets stuck for an extra couple of milliseconds, throwing off the subsequent timing. Someday, I hope to get a faster processor. I do all my work on a laptop and it can get overmatched.

Thanks guys. Thanks Joe. I know you did a heck of a lot of work with all the layers and conversion and mixing. Enjoyed doing this with you. Sorry I kept you waiting so long for it (3 months). :eek:

I get a lot of latency and syncing issues and often go back to resync things, but sometimes you don't catch everything. Also, I notice my system sometimes 'stutters' during the recording process where a drum track or keyboard track gets stuck for an extra couple of milliseconds, throwing off the subsequent timing. Someday, I hope to get a faster processor. I do all my work on a laptop and it can get overmatched.

My PC is an "old" 2003 one as well. What I do when recording a bunch of tracks is spend a lot of time zooming in the tracks in Audacity and aligning them, sometimes I get too obsessive with the issue, but it sure pays back. A few months ago I had to change the mobo and consequently "restart" everything, and for some reason when I recorded anything, not only it was out of sync, but also with a slight different timing. Eventually I managed to fix it out. This fortunately is not the issue here from what I can tell after listening to it again :). I´d love to listen to more ST covers by you guys, Easy does it from the Crisis? What crisis? would be cool!

that was Bloody well excellent, just a super cover that, you guys put a ton of work in and it sounded superb, 5 from me mates:yourock: :woot:

Bloody good version, what?


Quite right!!

Loved it fellas. Well worth the effort. 5 from me too.

Loved it! Very nicely done.:thumb:

Top notch guys!! I loved it.

Hope to see you guys more often. Im back.

very cool indeed. This has a real analog feel to it and feels even warmer than the original. top performances all round! Really excellent job guys - 5 stars for sure.

Coll tune to cover guys sounds great to me:boobies:

Great cover fellas , can't say i know the original but Joe did excellent work with the bt and guitars, Serg also excellent job with the vocals , can't fault the mixing either, enjoyable listen lads :rock: :rock:

Great stuff guys, i can't say i know the original, but i really enjoyed it, i especially liked the rocky middle of the song which Sergs excellent vocals really added to that feel there, and as always great work on the backing, guitar and bass Joe, also great to see you back posting too, wb :)
5 stars :thumb:

Man oh man this was outstanding :rock: I'm right to say that u know ;) :yourock:

Great stuff man, fucking love this stuff. Definitivelly 5 stars guys.

First of all guys ,I would just like to say thanks for sharing your talent and time with us :thumb: Great post i enjoyed listening :yourock:

That takes me back :) Nice one guys, enjoyed it lots.

That sounded excellent lads,thoroughly enjoyable. Electric piano certainly did sound cool:thumb:

Awwweee bloody marvelous stuff , are you playing this piano dude , if so your amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!! . A wonderful song superbly sung and incredibly well put together I'm under the impression you made the backer to dude , if so well done , this sounds terrific .

5sssss from me all the way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1:thumb:

Thanks Art. Wish I could take credit for the keyboards, but those and the drums were all from a midi file. Gotta like it when you find one that's sequenced this well -- that and a good soundfont or VSTi adds the extra level of authenticity. I really admire the folks who can sequence these midi files. Some of them are amazingly accurate.

OUTSTANDING there Joe and Sergio!!! Friggin' track is fantasic Joe, real authentic sounding instruments, and your playing is right on!!! And Serg, this just fit's you like a glove bro!!! Really well done...gets my 5ers!!!!:yourock: :bowdown: :thumb:

Hmmmmmm....can't believe I almost missed this!!!! Damn computer crashes!! Thx to Art and John for bumping this up for me to see!!:thumb:

Fantastic track, guys!!!! Joe....backer sounds scarily close to the origional...'specially the guitar work!!!!:yourock:

Sergio...you already know how I feel about your vocal prowess....Awesome!!:bowdown: