Band of Georges: Glitter

Glitter by George. From Volume I Side B of the Band of Georges. Music by G. Davies. Composed 2nd-3rd September 1982. Recorded May 1986. Mixed October 1986. Lifted from cassette March 2025. Copyright © 1982 Explicit Music. Copyright ℗ 2025 Wud Records. Fun Facts: Glitter was composed in the evening of the same day that Mark Drower and the Everyones had recorded the Blaze Tape. The rest was composed the following day. George's friend Caireen, who had also gone to Torquay to participate in the creation of The Blaze Tape by Mark Drower and the Everyones, had asked him to write a song for her, and he came up with this. He had a full set of Hohner HFX modular effects - Instant Funk, Valve Overdrive, Chorus/Flanger and Phase Shifter. The rhythm guitar sound morphs its way through all of these in various permutations and combinations. There are a lot of minor ninths and major sevenths. A couple of weeks later, George attempted a multi-track recording of this song, and maybe three others. He did this by recording as many parts as he could into a cassette machine. The resulting mix was played back, quite loudly, whilst George played more parts and recorded this mix into another cassette machine. The sound was pretty horrible and the degradation dreadful, but eventually he had a finished version of it and posted it to Caireen. See also: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/ https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-i-side-b/ https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/ https://linktr.ee/wudrecords