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imregrettingthis t1_iugjdbp wrote

Reply to comment by mqudsi in TIL When soul legend Wilson Picket recorded his iconic version of "Mustang Sally," he & his band rushed to hear the playback. The tape machine broke, cutting the tape into 30-40 tiny pieces. The engineer Tom Dowd carefully spliced them all back together, & that's the famous album version by wowbobwow

As a former engineer if there is a magic take you want to use it at all costs.

If it sounds like magic I’ll use a take that has tons of mistakes or needs a lot of work to make it perfect because it just sounds so good.

The performance over everything so if they thought it was the right performance then I would assume they would go to any length of possible to use it.

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