We’re back with another acoustic cover for you in the ‘Messin With The Music’ series. This time we worked on ‘A Forest’ by The Cure. ‘A Forest’ is from the band’s second album ‘Seventeen Seconds’ which was released in 1980. The Cure has created a lot of different types of music since they were formed in 1978. This song was from their early period when they were considered ‘goth’ or ‘post-punk’. This is the second Cure song we’ve worked on having previously covered ‘The Lovecats’. We haven’t done as many cover songs lately, although we’re getting back in to the flow. We did follow our usual methodology of doing each individual track straight through so it has the feel of a ‘live’ take. We again used all acoustic instruments other than the bass guitar which is run in to a pre-amp then directly in to the mixing board. For this song there are two acoustic guitars doing the same part which are panned hard left and right. There is a twelve string guitar as well as banjo and mandolin. We did two tracks for the vocals to make it sound a little richer. All the pictures we use in these videos are generate by us. These photos are from Redwood National Park. It’s a wonderful place to go if you want to spend some time hiking through a forest.
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