Ladies and gentlemen, I present Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie. I loved this song when I was a young lad, even though I thought it was literally about a spaceman who had never dome good things or bad things - something I guess I could relate to at the time. It was only with the passage of time and my gradual maturation that I realised it was probably about something more…
This was a tough one to record, partly because I had to teach myself slapping, but also I had to learn how to use a compressor - the slap parts in the chorus are way louder than the fingerstyle parts in the verse. The Rock Slap setting on the Zoom was really helpful as well, although the pops are still a bit dull - I blame old strings and my reluctance to mash up my fretboard 
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I think the original was on a Stingray, so I tried to use the bridge pickup on the T-bird to kind of mimic it. I was not going to slap on the Rickenbacker.
Still, the final version is passable I reckon, although I really poxed up the video recording just before the second chorus 
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So… ashes to ashes!
