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Good Morning Good Morning (feat. Fernando Perdomo)

by Confusion Boats

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The Beatles’ “Good Morning Good Morning” on side 2 of their Sgt. Pepper album posed a conundrum. How in the world was Confusion Boats going to cover this song? Here you have a very bleak, sad Lennon song with very sad lyrics, but performed and recorded in this fast-paced, hard-charging, in-your-face aggressive style. Topped off by a searing electric guitar solo, one of the best-ever in a Beatles song. For a song supposedly inspired by a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes TV commercial, and a song that Lennon later admitted he actually hated, it delivers quite a whallop.

For Confusion Boats to take on this song would be a challenge. How to approach it? Number one goal: it can’t sound anything like The Beatles’ version. First rule, when it doubt, slow the song down, and let it speak to you. It was important to completely de-Pepperize the song. Pet Sounds-like animals? Out. Brass band? Out. Ringo's pounding drum beat? Out. Weird time signature? Out? Typical mid-60s two-and-a-half-minute running time? Right out.

A random chance listen in January 2014 to Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Venus and Mars (Reprise)” song (Starship 21ZNA9, baby!) that opens side two of that album provided the inspiration for the melancholy acoustic guitar-strumming opening. Once that motif was chosen, the rest of the ideas just flowed from there. And at some point, it just made complete sense to insert clips of a former US president saying “Good morning” from various public speeches. The overall result is that this cover song has a distinct "saudade" feeling (something arguably present in many Beatles songs if you peel away all the fancy production elements and go right to the musical core).

The basic elements of the this recording were captured in 2022 in LA at Fernando Perdomo’s studio. Fernando did the vocal and played acoustic guitar, electric and bass guitar, and percussion. Brian Dear then added various keyboard, guitar, and additional percussion overdubs, dropped in the spoken-word clips, and created a rough mix in New Mexico. Zach Ziskin then did the final mix and master in Florida.

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released March 3, 2023
Words and music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Produced and arranged by Brian Dear
Vocals, acoustic/electric/bass guitars, percussion, keyboards by Fernando Perdomo
Keyboards, electric guitars, percussion by Brian Dear
Engineered and recorded by Fernando Perdomo at Stairway Studio LA
Additional recording by Brian Dear in New Mexico
Mixed and mastered by Zach Ziskin

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Confusion Boats Santa Fe, New Mexico

Confusion Boats is a music project led by Brian Dear in Santa Fe, NM, who has been arranging Beatles covers for two decades and they're now finally releasing to the world with fantastic musical guest artists.

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