Let's try it again!

[75lespaul]

Back in 1982 I was eighteen, the bass player was seventeen, and the drummer was fourteen. The singer had a pretty good cassette deck--no, not a multitrack recorder, just a cassette deck--and we hung an SM58 in the middle of my basement from a pipe. The bass, drums, and rhythm guitar are from that 1982 recording, and I added a second rhythm guitar, guitar solo, and vocals yesterday. I rewrote half of the words because I couldn't really remember them, ha ha. I posted this yesterday, but I really hated the vocals. I originally tried to be honest to the original version, but it hurt my ears, lol. I'm not a good singer, but I think this vocal line is better. Sorry for the bloops in the solo but I've got tendonitis and a ganglion cyst in my right wrist and I can barely move it, but music is worth the pain :beerchug:.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=652921&songID=9952126

or

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=1379940&t=4051

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Let's try it again!

I also have lapses of memory about lyrics that I wrote in my teens. Probably just as well. Mine were terrible.

 

[Uk Ant]

Re: Let's try it again!

I also have lapses of memory about lyrics that I wrote in my teens. Probably just as well. Mine were terrible.

Not as bad as mine

It's kinda cool that you've dug out such an old recording, somewhere there are such recordings of my first band circa '84, which I'm pretty sure I don't have anymore, but someone does and I do so hope they never put them on the net... we were awful

 

[75lespaul]

Re: Let's try it again!

I also have lapses of memory about lyrics that I wrote in my teens. Probably just as well. Mine were terrible.

As you can see, these lyrics are pretty wonky, lol. We were trying VERY hard to be Rush.

 

[75lespaul]

Re: Let's try it again!

Not as bad as mine

It's kinda cool that you've dug out such an old recording, somewhere there are such recordings of my first band circa '84, which I'm pretty sure I don't have anymore, but someone does and I do so hope they never put them on the net... we were awful

Oh, there are some recordings I have that I would NEVER post, lol. It's still a snapshot in time though, and I love them all. I have a clip somewhere of a gig we played where I forgot my effects board at home and I had to try and play metal through a Kustom 100 amp with no distortion. OH MY GOD!!!

 

[Kam]

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How'd you convert the tape into mp3 or whatever you used? I've got a cassette of some pretty dodgy recordings around here too somewhere. Might be fun if we got a load of people to post up their oldest stuff.

I was surprised at how good your recording was, by the way. I really love lo-fi sort of sounds but every instrument was clear and audible. Nicely done for a kid in a garage with a tapedeck. :fing2:

 

[75lespaul]

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How'd you convert the tape into mp3 or whatever you used? I've got a cassette of some pretty dodgy recordings around here too somewhere. Might be fun if we got a load of people to post up their oldest stuff.

I was surprised at how good your recording was, by the way. I really love lo-fi sort of sounds but every instrument was clear and audible. Nicely done for a kid in a garage with a tapedeck. :fing2:

I ran the outputs of my cassette deck into a Tascam US-428 usb interface about six or seven years ago (I use a Tascam FW-1804 firewire now). I recorded it into Sonar in stereo on one track, then cloned the track to have two stereo recordings. I don't know if that helped, but that's how I did it. I then used Sonar's internal eq's, reverbs and gates to enhance sound and remove noise from the original recording. When I added the second guitar I tried to make it sound as close to the original as possible because I wanted this to be kind of true to the original basement recording. What helped was that the tape deck we used was a top of the line component type deck and not a little hand held with a built in mic. I think the thing cost something like three hundred bucks way back then! A quality mic and a quality deck produced a pretty decent recording. The amazing thing is the drummer though. He was playing on a single bass, five piece kit that was just some red sparkle no name kiddie set but he made it sound SOOOO big. The bass player was playing through a late sixties silver face bassman piggy back that sounded huge and I was using a Yamaha solid state head (borrowed) through a Kustom 4X12 cab. I forget why I didn't use the Kustom 200 head with my MXR Distortion plus, which was my usual rig.

I would LOVE to hear recordings from other members. I appreciate the compliment, lol. We had three other songs on that tape and I would like to do the same with them as well. Great songs? Probably not. Wacky and corny lyrics? Oh, you bet, lol. But to me, they're a very fond memory of a simple time when music was my whole life and the sheer joy I got from playing songs that we had created was better than anything I had ever felt. Yes, anything.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Hehe man that rocks!!
Good tones there!

 

[GoldenVulture]

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Dig it. You could probably get a bit more bottom end into your original recording. That would help it.

I've got Jams and stuff on cassette [and reel to reel] going right back to my teens. There's a track at my soundclick site [link at bottom of page] called " valve socket melt ". It's a jam which was recorded on cassette with Two/three mikes. One in one channel, Two in the other, no mixer but one of the mics had a volume control on it so that was used to balance them between the drums and bass. It's from 1974.

There's another one I've been thinking of putting up due to the similarity of the riff in it and how it flows and a song by an Aussie band that was quite a hit, that came out about five years after.

 

[75lespaul]

Re: Let's try it again!

Dig it. You could probably get a bit more bottom end into your original recording. That would help it.

I've got Jams and stuff on cassette [and reel to reel] going right back to my teens. There's a track at my soundclick site [link at bottom of page] called " valve socket melt ". It's a jam which was recorded on cassette with Two/three mikes. One in one channel, Two in the other, no mixer but one of the mics had a volume control on it so that was used to balance them between the drums and bass. It's from 1974.

There's another one I've been thinking of putting up due to the similarity of the riff in it and how it flows and a song by an Aussie band that was quite a hit, that came out about five years after.

I love that jam. My favorite kind of stuff guitar jamming like that, from that era kinda like live Led Zeppelin or Hendrix type jamming. Awesome!

 

[75lespaul]

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Bump. Having a bad week, fishing for compliments to make me feel better, waaaaa. Okay, I'm a baby, but I admit it, lol.