1. I found a firmware update for my boss micro br that allowed me to use a bigger SD card than the midget 128mb one it came with so I can actually record with it instead of just using it as a mp3 playalong thingy.
2. I found an old cassette copy a a demo I did when I was 19 of the first song I ever wrote.
3. Realised that the boss had a line in and I had a link cable as well as the fact that my mum still had my old cassette player...ergo...for your amusement and mocking pleasure...
It was written after a friend's baby was stillborn and he and his partner were understandably devastated. This also got me thinking about a miscarriage my mum had when I was about 6 and the song came from there. I had been playing for a bit less than a year and was getting lessons from Paul Martin. I was announcing at Contact 89 FM (old Waikato Uni radio station) and made use of the cheap rates we got for the recording studio to demo this and a couple of other songs. Paul played bass and the 2nd solo and my friend Anthony Hills provided vocs and played keyboards.
Tonight was the first time I've heard this in almost 20 years! Some thoughts:
1. I don't play much better now than I did then!
2 That boy was in serious need of some vibrato and could not keep time to save himself (also not much different to now)
3. It doesn't completely suck!
4. Some very cringe worthy lyrics there.
5. Still really like Paul's bassline and solo and get a kick out of the fact that the latter was recorded on a 10W solid state samick practice amp with only a little bit of effects help from the board. Cool guitar noises at the end
6. Anthony has some nice vocal touches on there - mostly one take due to limited funds/studio time.
8. My palm sized boss micro recorder is more powerful than the whole studio we had back then!
7. The kid noises that we stole...um...I mean...sampled from the Mission's 'Children' album worked really well.
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