Mario Giammetti (он со своей группой исполнил "Song Within A Song"): "By the time we were asked to record a song by Camel, Roberto Polcino had became a full member of the band. He is an excellent player, and his experience proved to be fundamental for us since then. I am particularly affected to this song because we have rarely recorded in the studio as live as on this one. Apart from a metronome, we simply recorded our parts one after the other. Roberto wrote the piano introduction, and it was me who suggested him to do the central part with the accordion; this brought the song closer to our Neapolitan origins than to the original Canterbury flavour! I am also extremely satified from my vocals here. I don't think I have ever sang better than on this one".
На диске-трибьюте Camel американская группа Glass Hammer исполняет песню "Air Born":
Summary
A number of obvious bands lack here: one is Pendragon, because Barrett
learned playing guitar from Latimer (more or less), but also missing is
Quidam, because during concerts they tend to play a number of
Camel covers. Well, we'll do with the ones listed above (aching fingers,
that's what you get)
Fortunately I saw Camel live the other day and now have some idea with what
kind of intensity the music should be played.
I might be off the mark sometimes, but I'm afraid I haven't taken the trouble
to compare these songs meticulously.
The music
Not very surprisingly many of the covers stay close to the original (in view
of earlier tribute CDs), but because the vocals of Latimer are not so good
anyway, it doesn't matter much that other people sing here.
I will not concern myself much with differences in instrumentation, if it
does not really change the song overly much, because most of the bands
have of course done that, because they work with the possibilities they have.
