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WRITTEN A LONG TIME BACK NOW,(27TH NOVEMBER 1998 TO BE PRECISE...), ONE OF THE FEW TRACKS I USED MY OL' ELECTRIC GUITAR FOR (BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN IT STILL HAD ITS FRETS INTACT...)

THE SONG WAS RECORDED ON A FOUR TRACK; TWO GUITAR TRACKS, ONE VOCAL, AND A TRACK FOR THE SOUND OF THE RAIN THAT WAS PELTING IT DOWN OUTSIDE THAT NIGHT.

"RAIN" WAS ONE OF THE FIRST EXPERIMENTS I MADE WITH EFFECTS. ALL THE TRACKS WERE RECORDED THROUGH A "COPYCAT" MACHINE, WHICH RESEMBLED SOMETHING OUT THE ARK... THE COPYCAT BASICALLY GAVE ME AN ANALOGUE DELAY VIA A MAGNETIC TAPE LOOP... PRETTY COOL I THOUGHT...

ALTHOUGHT THE QUALITY ISN'T UP TO MUCH, THIS ORIGINAL VERSION OF "RAIN" REMAINS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS. MAYBE IT'S JUST ME, BUT I SWEAR THERE'S A GHOSTLY VOCAL HARMONY IN SOME PLACES, WEIRD SINCE I ONLY RECORDED ONE VOCAL...