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    Posted: 27 September 2010 at 9:11am
I tried doing a custom edit of this some years ago, and I think I came VERY close. But it was difficult to reproduce the tail end of the guitar solo edit - into the final chorus (which ends up being at 2:15 on my edit, matching the 45).

Was this a layered or remixed edit, or was it a straight splice? I think that the LP version can be used as a source, but it seems to need to have the drum roll mixed over the guitar tail out, no? It's what I ended up doing.

Does anyone know the edit instructions of that particular edit point? I know all of the rest of them.
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I wasn't able to edit the LP version because of that same edit you mention. I tried to overlap two sections, but I think they they might have used an acapella "all aboard" to overlap the guitar ending rather than mixing two parts of the song together.
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Originally posted by aaronk aaronk wrote:

I wasn't able to edit the LP version because of that same edit you mention. I tried to overlap two sections, but I think they they might have used an acapella "all aboard" to overlap the guitar ending rather than mixing two parts of the song together.


Same here. I tried to find another appearance of the "all aboard" vocal from elsewhere in the song that could be used for that segue, but alas, those few seconds appear to be unique to the 45 version.

Strange that they went to the trouble, because the edit still sounds abrupt with the tail end of the guitar solo still audible when it cuts in on the second syllable of "aboard".

To this day I wonder why the song didn't chart higher. I thought it was quite catch; however, the 45 edit could have done a better job in shortening the song without chopping out so much.
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The few times I heard this on the air back then, it was the LP version. Can't remember who in New York City played it, though.

There were a handful of 45s around 1981-1982 that did a great disservice to the songs (my opinion, of course) by cutting up otherwise imaginative breaks and solos. The 45 of "On The Loose" by Saga springs to mind, which cuts the solo in half and eliminates the excellent and very memorable keyboard-doubling-with-the-guitar part. "Fantasy" by Aldo Nova used a completely different guitar solo for the 45, with half the length of the LP version solo. Both the Saga and Aldo Nova tracks would have been under 4 minutes if they had stuck with the album version (cutting off the helicopter intro for "Fantasy"). I doubt that the shortening helped the tracks get any more airplay than they would have gotten otherwise.

I know 5+ minutes for the Diesel song may be too long for a single, but I think they could have come closer to 4 minutes while leaving the break intact. Just a minor gripe.
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Another gripe. All CD copies I've heard of this song have excessive noise/hiss reduction applied. I ended up dubbing my copy from the vinyl LP.
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Really? I have the One Way release of Watts In A Tank from 2002 - I'll have to listen more closely tonight to see if there's NR on there.
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Originally posted by Roscoe Roscoe wrote:

To this day I wonder why the song didn't chart higher. I thought it was quite catch


Same here! I ran out and bought it the minute I heard it on the radio. Regency Records had just switched distribution at the time the single came out; a Billboard magazine article at the time indicated that the single didn't happen at all until Atlantic took over distribution from MCA. If that was the case, I'm surprised that any significant number of the copies pressed by MCA - including the one I bought - made it into the pipeline after the record had really taken off.
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FYI - Some label scans.

The single as originally released on Regency 96001: A-side / B-side

The more common pressing on Regency 7339: A-side / B-side
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Originally posted by crapfromthepast crapfromthepast wrote:

Really? I have the One Way release of Watts In A Tank from 2002 - I'll have to listen more closely tonight to see if there's NR on there.

The LP and 45 is very hissy, especially for a song released in 1981. Perhaps the disc you have keeps the hiss in tact, but I've heard it from two different CD sources, and they both have lots of NR.
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Yup. The One Way release has NR. :(

I do remember the vinyl being hissy, and always thought it added to the charm of the song somehow.
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