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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
How did she do that? Was she listening to the instrumental parts on headphones while she sang and they recorded her track to add to the mix?
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Well, I wasn't there, but...
It's not uncommon to lay down the rhythm tracks first; drums, then base, then rhythm guitar, etc. She may not have had the whole song played back to her but she probably had at least the rhythm parts.
What I find interesting about artists of her generation is just how good they were at a young age. She was 27 when she recorded that, having taken up a career in music only 1 year before. I'm not aware of any formal training she had in singing.
She's said to have written the song in an hour. I think she performed it in an band that she formed with her husband in 1965, the year before she joined Jefferson Airplane and recorded the version we all know.
I got to see her up close, performing it live in the early 70's. An amazing talent, one of the few really gifted female singers of her generation.