So Jean played a guide bass part, which he later re-did, and we also kept that guide part.
There wasn't any kind of fooling around. What's more, they booked one of the best studios in New York, Sigma Sound, which came loaded with top-quality equipment — when you booked that studio, you didn't just get the engineer and the room, you also had access to tons of gear, including three or four different amplifiers, some excellent pianos and some great outboard gear.
‘Pet Sematary’ didn’t seem any sillier than ‘Rat Boy’ or any of these other crazy songs. Looking straight ahead from behind the desk, Marky Ramone's drum kit backed onto the window separating the live area from the control room — adjacent to the snakes for the mic cables — and was recorded with an AKG C451 on the hi-hat, Sennheiser 421 on the kick, Shure SM57 on top of the snare, 421s on the toms, Neumann U87s as overheads, and also as near and far room mics. The one exception, at least in commercial terms, was the theme song to Stephen King's 1989 horror movie hit, Pet Sematary, wriiten by Dee Dee and sometime-Ramones producer Daniel Rey.
All my life, I've just thought it was a Ramones song, haha. "We finished overdubbing at about five or six in the morning, went home, slept for a few hours, and were back at the studio before noon on that Saturday in order to set up the mix," Kral recalls. "It's not like we were dumping things into Pro Tools and moving them around, and there also wasn't any punching-in on the basic track.
I lived in Manhattan and he lived in Queens.
They wanted something that would have commercial value, which is a little difficult sometimes to get with the Ramones.
When he played his demos, it was Dee Dee’s voice kind of squawking.I had done a lot of the Ramones’ videos. Anyway, the session began at midnight, Jean and I were probably ready to start remixing by about three or three-thirty in the morning, and we were trying to beat the clock because Jean had parked his car on 54th Street. You need people to be able to laugh — not laugh hysterically, not laugh all the time.
Don't forget, Jean Beauvoir is a pretty darn good musician himself, he's got some great music chops, and he knew what he wanted to get out of these guys. So it was obvious: ‘I don’t wanna be buried in a Pet Sematary.’ And then there’s, ‘I don’t wanna live my life again,’ which is kind of funny — because your life is so miserable you don’t want to live it again. Danish. Background vocals, too. So I said, ‘Look, I bet you anything that Dee Dee will write a song for us. More Songs From the Show: Pet Sematary.
Other Songs by Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop Bonzo Goes to Bitburg Danger Zone I Want To Be Sedated Teenage Lobotomy: Funniest Misheards by Ramones. I was working with Dee Dee and we were sort of writing partners. Beauvoir: It was the most successful commercial Ramones song ever released. Product #: MN0153806. As it turned out, the car got towed, but the remix sounded great.Web site designed & maintained by PB Associates & SOS13.
The safety net was that it was for a film soundtrack, and when the film did well at the box office, the song did well, too.
Overdubs were done later that night and all day Friday, including those for the lead vocal, and thereafter the mix was completed in just a few hours on the Saturday and delivered on Sunday the 17th.
It was something we bonded over when we met for the first time.We worked almost two weeks on this song. Then came the call for a remix, which took place at the Hit Factory on February 16th, 1989. Norwegian . That night was crowded; there were a lot of people there.