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!
No idea, but I’m ready to bet it isn’t Satriani…..
http://www.gracenote[...]usic_id.html ?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
here you go. This is the song and enjoy. I hope the RIAA doesn’t get me.
That’s it! 4:23 into the song… there it is. Awesome, thanks Bill!
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.
Sure, except that costs $100 and:
It’s Counting Crows – Round Here on their first album August and Everything After
Ouch, you beat me to it. >_< Pretty insane.
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.
google man…
If you know of a way to search for an instrumental tun on Google, please enlighten us.
I used GarageBand to import directly from a mic, and then created an MP3 using iTunes. And I miss Phish… 🙁
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
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.
the song is “divided sky” by the band Phish.
my favorite phish tune