I still have a mix tape1 a friend made for me back in college. The last song on Side A is Round Here by Counting Crows, but as the song ends it fades into an instrumental tune that I don’t know. My guess is that there was something else originally on the tape before the mix I have now was recorded over it.
Anyway, I love the mystery tune and I’ve never been able to identify it. I remember a bunch of us sitting around the dorm soph year trying to figure it out. One gal swore it was a Phish tune, but could never identify it. Listening to it today, I think it sounds a little like Joe Satriani’s guitar work.
Here is an MP3 of the clip of the song I have:
Download mystery_song.mp3 (1.8MB)
There is a $5 bounty (via PayPal) for the first person to correctly identify the song in the comments.
I was surprised at the hoops I had to jump through to get this into MP3 format. I tried recording it directly into the Mac using WireTap, but they charge $20 now or they talk over the audio. This is what I finally did:
- Hook a line out from the headphone jack on my little stero to the microphone in port on my video camera.
- Play/record to get the audio onto the video camera.
- Import the video into iMovie.
- Crop the clip to the length I wanted.
- Extract the audio.
- Import the audio clip into iTunes.
- Convert to MP3.
I’m sure there is an easier way to do this2 - tips?
UPDATE: The song is ‘The Divided Sky’ by Phish. The clip I posted starts around 4:23 into the song. Thanks Bill!
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Alexis adds this Comment:
No idea, but I’m ready to bet it isn’t Satriani…..
February 22nd, 2005 at 1:52 pm
no adds this Comment:
http://www.gracenote[...]usic_id.html ?
February 22nd, 2005 at 2:41 pm
William Manning adds this Comment:
The band is Phish. I have every album and have seen them many times. That song is from their album “Junta”. Great stuff from Vermont. To bad they are not around any more.
February 22nd, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Jason Young adds this Comment:
I swore it sound like Eric Johnson or Stanley Jordan. But I couldn’t match either with any songs that I have in my music library.
February 22nd, 2005 at 3:14 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Bill, I just listened to all the clips from Junta and it does sound like a couple of the tunes. However, none of the ciips included the piece on the MP3, so I’m still unsure.
February 22nd, 2005 at 3:20 pm
William Manning adds this Comment:
I will let you download my entire Phish collection tomorrow from my ftp site. Trust me it is Phish. I really think you will like them.
February 22nd, 2005 at 3:53 pm
danithew adds this Comment:
If this is Phish then I want to listen to them more. It reminds me an awful lot of Mark Knopfler’s guitar style. But it isn’t something I’ve heard before.
February 22nd, 2005 at 4:17 pm
William Manning adds this Comment:
The name of the song.. it took me a minute.. is called “Divided Sky” it is on Junta Disk #1. The song itself is 11:58 minutes long. Trust me, Phish is one of the greatest bands of all time. The four of them created some of the best music. They combined it all.
February 22nd, 2005 at 4:24 pm
William Manning adds this Comment:
here you go. This is the song and enjoy. I hope the RIAA doesn’t get me.
February 22nd, 2005 at 4:39 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
That’s it! 4:23 into the song… there it is. Awesome, thanks Bill!
February 22nd, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Kerim Friedman adds this Comment:
I’ve never used this, but I believe the software you are looking for is Roxio’s CD spin doctor. Here is their URL on Version Tracker.
February 22nd, 2005 at 5:29 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Sure, except that costs $100 and:
February 22nd, 2005 at 5:30 pm
ninapinacolada adds this Comment:
It’s Counting Crows - Round Here on their first album August and Everything After
February 22nd, 2005 at 5:54 pm
windwaker adds this Comment:
Ouch, you beat me to it. >_<
Pretty insane.
February 22nd, 2005 at 8:51 pm
brian w adds this Comment:
There are loads of utilities that will let you record audio for free, in case you have this problem again… I’ve used Audio In before and I know a lot of people swear by Audacity. Personally I prefer the features in the non-free Audio Hijack Pro.
February 22nd, 2005 at 9:05 pm
socket adds this Comment:
google man…
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:45 am
Alex adds this Comment:
If you know of a way to search for an instrumental tun on Google, please enlighten us.
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:29 am
prator adds this Comment:
I used GarageBand to import directly from a mic, and then created an MP3 using iTunes. And I miss Phish…
February 23rd, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Avi Flax adds this Comment:
Alex, I use Audio Recorder for this sort of thing. I found out about it from a Boing Boing post. It has a super-simple interface, and it works quite well - it just records audio from any source and compresses it to MP3 on-the-fly, at your chosen quality level. Works really nicely for impromptu recording of just about anything.
I’m glad to hear the story had a happy ending!
Avi
February 24th, 2005 at 12:26 am
piluki adds this Comment:
If this is Phish then I want to listen to them more. It reminds me an awful lot of Mark Knopfler’s guitar style. But it isn’t something I’ve heard before.
April 26th, 2005 at 7:05 pm
jonathan g. adds this Comment:
the song is “divided sky” by the band Phish.
December 22nd, 2005 at 9:33 pm
Anonymous adds this Comment:
my favorite phish tune
February 7th, 2007 at 9:28 pm