Chasing Cars… How Snow Patrol would have done it…

…if their recording studio only had a $9.95 microphone, a cheap guitar with rusty strings and a singer they pulled off the street…
Link to mp3 here… (the embedded version slowed down the whole page, so so much for that…)

…The rattling noise is the microphone tumbling around inside the guitar on 3 tracks… And the singing, well, that’s as good as it gets I’m afraid. Here’s the original on YouTube in case you need reminding that it is actually quite a good song.

Here’s the equipment:

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And while I’m posting, here’s our friendly neighbourhood bucket-o-fruit-and-chile-powder delivery bloke:

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