RIP Alex Chilton

Sadly, yesterday saw the passing of brilliant singer and songwriter, Alex Chilton, of Big Star fame. Alex, along with Big Star were responsible for some of the most influential guitar-pop/power-pop music ever written, and his work is amongst the most covered ever, I would hedge a bet.

Here is a quick version of Big Star's "Thirteen", which I recorded this morning as a bit of a tribute to the great man.

http://www.thewaitups.com/thirteen.mp3

For the technically minded amongst us (and since this is a technical blog after all), Guitar was recorded with a Rode NT5 through a Urei 1178. Vocals overdubbed with a Rode NT1000 again through the 1178. The guitar and voice saw a tiny bit of ITB EQ and compression then the mix went through my DIY SSL stereo compressor.