"The Living Years" DJ Edit

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   OK, here's another for the editors.  One radio edit I've had some trouble reproducing is Mike & The Mechanics' "The Living Years."  Most of my major problem is figuring out where exactly to edit to smoothly get from the line "in the living years" at the end of the first verse to the "say it loud" chorus (the commercial 45 and LP have a whole other verse in between).  I gues the opening keyboard riff is a little hard to nail down as well (it sounds like the part that needs to be edited on the commercial version segues right into the opening note of the DJ version).

Anyone have any success?  Or better yet, anyone got it?

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sriv94 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 September 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote sriv94 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: "The Living Years" DJ Edit Posted: 12 March 2006 at 1:44pm
	OK, here's another for the editors. One radio edit I've had some trouble reproducing is Mike & The Mechanics' "The Living Years." Most of my major problem is figuring out where exactly to edit to smoothly get from the line "in the living years" at the end of the first verse to the "say it loud" chorus (the commercial 45 and LP have a whole other verse in between). I gues the opening keyboard riff is a little hard to nail down as well (it sounds like the part that needs to be edited on the commercial version segues right into the opening note of the DJ version). Anyone have any success? Or better yet, anyone got it?
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edtop40 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote edtop40 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:00pm
	i have the promo cd single which has an edit on it would you like an mp3 of it?
	edtop40

sriv94 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 16 September 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote sriv94 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 March 2006 at 2:03pm
	Absolutely! This would be another one down. Thanks, Ed!
	Doug --------------- All of the good signatures have been taken.

aaronk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 84	Post Options Post Reply Quote aaronk Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 March 2006 at 5:27pm
	Just listened to Ed's mp3 of the official "edit" version, and it's another one that sounds like an intern did the splicing. Very sloppy.

eric_a Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 June 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote eric_a Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 April 2006 at 9:34pm
	For future reference, to make your own edit from the 5:30 LP version: Start the edit at the downbeat around 0:14.5. Then the cut is from 1:05 to 1:44. The cut is close to the fourth beat, if you start counting on the word "Years" in "Wish I could've told him/In the living years" ending the first verse. Like Aaron says, it's pretty sloppy.