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The last weekend or two ago, I got to playing with wires and sound equipment and stuff and came upon the profound revelation that I have the stuff, if I wire it together right, I can convert a cassette to a digital file on the computer. Yep, the end result, an mp3.
So, I let my used-to-be playing partner in South Carolina know about it and he shipped me the entire box of cassettes we recorded from our musical playing-out career. It's a short collection, we played out I think 4 times over a period of a few months. Chuck is a good rhythm guitar player, banging on a Taylor acoustic...big bucks and quality there. A fine instrument.
Anyhow, for our purposes here on Bangshift, I know I cause more oddity and at times trouble since I'm not even a car guy. Often I wonder why I'm here. I can tell you - it's because every one of you are fascinating people on the computer screen I'd love to meet in person. And I've met a few of ya, much to my delight. I hope I made as good of an impression uopn y'all as y'all did upon me, in person.
So, I think it was HEMI who noted I should post some more music. HEMI got me here to start with, by accident. The good thing about this is you sure don't have to click on the link if you don't need to hear about 10 minutes of attempted music by me and my buddy Chuck in Lancaster SC on December 5, 2005.
It was at a little restaurant/bar in Lancaster. Nobody was there except for friends and family who turned out. It was among the first times Chuck had ever played out in his life. That whole evening - at the end of it Chuck was amazed. He said, "They FEED us supper. They GIVE us beer. They LET us play. And at the end they HAND us money" (not very much, mind you). Chuck said, "Is this a great country, or WHAT???"
As for the recording, by this point in the evening I'd beat and stretched the Dobro's strings to death. The little E-string was BAD flat, out of tune. I can hear it, it stands out. It's awful. But maybe the casual listener won't care. It's me on Dobro and vocal, Chuck on rhythm.
When you watch the sure-enough hot rod guitarists in concert or on TV, they grab the tuning knob in the middle of a song and twist it back and forth, like they can tune the guitar on the run. Maybe that's "so," but for me I'm not sure how much of that is actually for show, literally showing off. I sure can't do it. Nor did I even have the gumption to tune the guitar between songs, which I could have easily done.
I apologize for the 16 seconds of silence from when the "song" starts to when the "music" starts. The recording deck is kicking my ass. Didn't know what to do with the early silence because I really don't know how to operate the thing, even after all of this time.
HEMI, this one's for you. You said more music posted here, so here's way too much. Way too much.
peedub
So, I let my used-to-be playing partner in South Carolina know about it and he shipped me the entire box of cassettes we recorded from our musical playing-out career. It's a short collection, we played out I think 4 times over a period of a few months. Chuck is a good rhythm guitar player, banging on a Taylor acoustic...big bucks and quality there. A fine instrument.
Anyhow, for our purposes here on Bangshift, I know I cause more oddity and at times trouble since I'm not even a car guy. Often I wonder why I'm here. I can tell you - it's because every one of you are fascinating people on the computer screen I'd love to meet in person. And I've met a few of ya, much to my delight. I hope I made as good of an impression uopn y'all as y'all did upon me, in person.
So, I think it was HEMI who noted I should post some more music. HEMI got me here to start with, by accident. The good thing about this is you sure don't have to click on the link if you don't need to hear about 10 minutes of attempted music by me and my buddy Chuck in Lancaster SC on December 5, 2005.
It was at a little restaurant/bar in Lancaster. Nobody was there except for friends and family who turned out. It was among the first times Chuck had ever played out in his life. That whole evening - at the end of it Chuck was amazed. He said, "They FEED us supper. They GIVE us beer. They LET us play. And at the end they HAND us money" (not very much, mind you). Chuck said, "Is this a great country, or WHAT???"
As for the recording, by this point in the evening I'd beat and stretched the Dobro's strings to death. The little E-string was BAD flat, out of tune. I can hear it, it stands out. It's awful. But maybe the casual listener won't care. It's me on Dobro and vocal, Chuck on rhythm.
When you watch the sure-enough hot rod guitarists in concert or on TV, they grab the tuning knob in the middle of a song and twist it back and forth, like they can tune the guitar on the run. Maybe that's "so," but for me I'm not sure how much of that is actually for show, literally showing off. I sure can't do it. Nor did I even have the gumption to tune the guitar between songs, which I could have easily done.
I apologize for the 16 seconds of silence from when the "song" starts to when the "music" starts. The recording deck is kicking my ass. Didn't know what to do with the early silence because I really don't know how to operate the thing, even after all of this time.
HEMI, this one's for you. You said more music posted here, so here's way too much. Way too much.
peedub
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