After completing the vocal session in Toronto, David and I flew back to Vancouver and booked time at Pinewood Studios and Little Mountain Sound where more musicians were added to the track, including Loverboy's Doug Johnson and Paul Dean, who contributed keyboards and guitar.

Steven Denroche, a member of the Vancouver Symphony, played French Horn. Like the session in Toronto, there was a film crew present, collecting footage for a planned documentary and music video.

It took less than 15 minutes for Steven to record his French Horn part. When he was done, David thought it would sound good if the part was doubled.

David asked Steven to play a single note on his horn, and hold it for about 10 seconds. David recorded the note into his “Emulator”, after which he was able to play a perfect French Horn sound on the keyboard.

Using the Emulator, David quickly doubled the “real” French Horn with the “sampled” sound. He thanked Steven for donating his time, and sent him on his way.

A few weeks later I dropped in to the film suite in Toronto to view a rough cut of the documentary, and I found David overseeing the editing.

When it got to the French Horn part I noticed they'd deleted most of the footage of Steven playing, but had kept the part where David records Steven's long note and doubles the real horn.

In the finished film it appears as if Steven contributed nothing more than a single note, with David doing all the rest. I told David I thought it was cruel to fabricate a scene at Steven's expense, particularly after Steven had donated his time to the project. David thought the humour of the “one note” French Horn performance outweighed any concerns over humiliating the musician, and he left it in.

As newspaper magnate William Randolph Heart once said, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story”.