I was thinking and I was drinking and I got this feeling, I’ve gotta get out! Being confined at home for three plus months provided plenty of time for soul searching. Let’s go out tonight, I wanna go out tonight. Happy Independence Day!

Lockdown Session 9

This tribute is a liberating tune by the Hanson Brothers. It is time to get out and mingle to escape the insanity of our captivity. Let’s go out tonight!

Our project was driven by our desire to always find a way to do what makes us happy. During the lockdown it was recording tributes to the songs we have carried through life and suddenly provides clearer meaning to us. We offer this last track in the lockdown series of tributes.

Let's Go Out Tonight
 
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go out tonight
Let's go out tonight
 
We've been watching this tube too long
We're gonna put the clicker down
Put the clicker down
 
We've been fighting with each other all day
And now we've got to get away
got to get away
 
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
 
We've been watching this tube too long
We've gotta put the clicker down
Put the clicker down
 
We've been fighting with each other all day
And now we've got to get awa
got to get away…. hey
 
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
I wanna go ou-out tonight
Let's go out tonight
 
You know I was sitting at home
And I was thinking And 
I was drinking
I was Thinking and drinking 
Thinking and drinking 
 
Pretty soon I didn’t know whether I was 
drinking or thinking
 
But I got this feeling,
I just got this feeling 
I've gotta get out!
 

Songwriters: Johnny Hanson / Robbie Hanson / Tommy Hanson / Ernie Hanson

Recording sequence for Let’s Go Out Tonight:
– AJ records drums on an iPhone 8 Plus situated in the rear waste band of athletic shorts using Voice Memos app and texts track to Truk
– Truk reviews the drum track and cannot work with the tempo and timing
– Truk records scratch guitar version to metronome and texts track to AJ

– AJ records new drum track and sends it back to Truk
– Truk records guitar track
– Truk dumps drum and guitar tracks to DAT
– Truk delivers DAT to Tom

– Tom loads drum and guitar tracks to digital recording console and records bass track

– Tom records vocal tracks through a MXL V57M Large Diaphragm Condenser microphone
– Tom dumps drum, guitar, bass and vocal tracks to DAT

— Tom drops DAT tape on Truk’s front porch
– Truk records backing vocals and mixes the magic

Signage for the single designed by the Thee Jim Cook

Photo by Mr. Big

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