"The Offing" by Chet Nichols from the CD, "Beetles Are Coming"

"The Offing" from Chet Nichols' CD, "Beetles Are Coming"
This release is the long-awaited 2015 remix of Chet Nichols' CD, "Beetles Are Coming". It features ALL-NEW HD/HiFi-quality restoration, re-mixed, re-edited and re-mastered tracks from Chet's ground-breaking first album, "Time Loop".
Lyrics & music to all songs by Chet Nichols
Produced, recorded and mixed by Stephen Barncard
Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco, CA 1970-71
Remix-mastering 2015 at International House Of Cubes Sebastopol
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Instrumentation and vocals on all tracks by Chet Nichols
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"If you haven’t heard Chet Nichols, and love great original acoustic music, be prepared to have your socks blown off. He’s a wonder of nature that plays and sings these original, complex yet endearing melodies, and sounds like 3 people playing.
This state is enabled thanks to the gifts of incredible range and choir-boy quality of the voice, driving rhythms that may include hands, feet, rings, sometimes even a trick knee and special “open tunings” used to create the song space.
I first caught Chet back in KC in 1969, where he was headlining at the Vanguard Coffee House on Main street. I was blown away. An invitation is offered to come to play at KCJC, the radio station, where I was known as ‘NightFreak’, followed, and the rest is history.
That night at the radio station, I set up the news mic on Chet’s guitar, an old RCA 44, and another beat up 44 at my announcer’s position, and just let him play..
.. after an hour and a half of a stunning performance I realized we had to work on a project together at some point in the future.
And it happened - we ended up in San Francisco and were able to cut the tracks for this record between 1970 and 1971.
This release is the long-awaited 2015 remix of Chet Nichols' CD, "Beetles Are Coming". It features ALL-NEW HD/HiFi-quality restoration, re-mixed, re-edited and re-mastered tracks from Chet's ground-breaking first album, "Time Loop".
Great care was taken to preserve all that was on the original master tapes:
16track 2inch 3m or Ampex machine -->
3m tape-->
16 track Studer-->Digital HD 24/96-->
digital mix-->
dithering-resampling to 44/16 in mastering->
44/16 master file at Bandcamp->
Bandcamp delivers file format of your choice.
This remixed-remastered version restores the vision we had had for this project all along. It just took a little time. We located some better takes and alternate parts and took away some others. We also fixed some pesky phase and polarity problems with the many microphone experiments, including stereo vocals.
Revisionism? Perhaps, but for the better. For the songs. For the Sound. This record is a special treat.
You can have the best experience if you download the larger Apple Lossless or FLAC files before burning to CD or placing in your library. We hope to offer a 24/96 version at some point in the future.
thanks for listening.
stephen barncard
barncard.com
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This album is a the collection of songs in the long-awaited 2015 release of Chet Nichols' CD, "Beetles Are Coming", which includes ALL-NEW HD/HiFi-quality restoration, re-mixing and re-mastered tracks from Chet's ground-breaking first album, "Time Loop".
This CD (as was the initial recording, "Time Loop") has been produced and engineered by Chet's early producer and engineer, Stephen Barncard, a fixture in the San Francisco music scene since the late 60's, where Stephen began his career as an engineer at the infamous Wally Heider's Studio. Stephen has worked with many well-known bands and artists including; The Grateful Dead, CSNY, David Crosby and many others. Chet and Stephen teamed up, again, to polish this gem up for you.
Chet, too, was part of the San Francisco music scene, as well as being one of the corner-stone, singer-songwriters of the Kansas City music scene in the 60's and 70's. Chet was later inducted into The Kansas Music Hall Of Fame. Followed several years later by Stephen.
The sonic quality of these tracks is superb and it takes an album recorded in 1971 and upgrades it to the highest, current HD Hi-Fi sonic standards available today. It also includes a bonus track, "Red Tide", which had been buried in the vast library of Chet's early work.
Moreover, Stephen Barncard was able to discover several takes from the original album and upgrade them with better takes. Please wear a nice pair of headphones when you enjoy this ground breaking and historically important album.
2+ years in the making, restoration, re-mixing, re-tracking, re-conversion and re-mastering, we hope you enjoy this highly-acclaimed and revered album. It features Chet's smooth and soaring vocals, virtuoso guitar work and unparalleled songwriting and lyrical story-telling.
We also ask that you support this fine, independent artist and purchase the music tracks available here to add to your personal music library. Signed copies of this CD are available upon request.
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Lyrics & music to all songs by Chet Nichols
Produced, recorded and mixed by Stephen Barncard
Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco, CA 1970-71
Remix-mastering 2015 at International House Of Cubes Sebastopol
houseofcubes.com
Instrumentation and vocals on all tracks by Chet Nichols, except:
"Spinning On The Time Loop" co-produced by Nick Gravenites
ALL SONGS Copyrights by:
Chet Nichols - ASCAP & Magic Garage Music - ASCAP - USA
ALL US & GLOBAL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED
These songs or any portion thereof, lyrics, music, samples, vocals, may not be reproduced in any form or media, distributed, transmitted, downloaded, shared or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publishers. For permission requests, write to the publisher at [e-mail] or www.chetnichols.net, or addressed to "Attention: Permissions Coordinator," at the address below.
Magic Garage Music, PO Box 2398, Northbrook, IL 60065
More information at: www.chetnichols.net