スティーヴ・ウィンウッドさんのインスタグラム写真 - (スティーヴ・ウィンウッドInstagram)「#OnThisDay in 1981, the Album ‘Arc Of A Diver’ rose to #3 on the Billboard Top-200, earning Steve his first top-ten hit as a solo artist with “While You See A Chance". But just before finishing the lead single, he inadvertently erased the drums from the beginning of the tape. The mistake turned out to be a revelation that made the song work: “What happened there was that in the studio, I had record switches for each track that were mounted flush with the board desk, on top of which was habitually piled reams of notes and paperwork. At one point, I inadvertently knocked a record button on as I went down into the studio to do a vocal. Twenty bars into the song, I suddenly said to Nobby Clarke, my engineering assistant, ‘I can't hear the bloody drums!’ He stopped the tape immediately, and we found that we'd accidentally wiped the drums off the first part of the track - originally they'd come in at the top of the tune. I spent months trying to patch in the drums again, and never got it right. We were getting close to delivery day for the tapes to be mastered, so I just left the drums and vocal out, and reshifted all the verses. It actually made the song. That's how bizarre the recording process is.”」4月18日 22時34分