New old guy.....

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Hi people. I started this thread just to say HI and see how much "life" there is here. I guess this would be my introduction post. I'm a 52 year old guy who was in a budding, well connected 3 piece garage band in 1980. New wave music like Devo, Blondie, and Oingo Boingo were hot as well as the full on punk scene which I listened to quite a bit. K-ROQ radio in LA was the station of choice and especially the Rodney Binginheimer show, which played all kinds of "hear it nowhere else" new stuff. A week before Van Halens "Sinners Swing Tour" in LA..... I had an encounter with Yah..... the spirit of God and had to dissengage from everything else that was going on and secure my understanding and relationship with this newfound entity before I could continue doing anything else. Needless to say, I quit the band and began a journey of study, prayer, and fellowship which has been more precious to me than anything ..... however.....
a part of me still suffers this unborn creativity known as song writing. Its been 31 years, and the guitar player and I who seemed to have such a wonderful creative magic are wanting to try and do some music together again. We don't want to be big rock stars like we did in the old days. We just want to create together.....using the medium of music....... whatever it is that we will create at this stage of our lives, as amatuers. For fun and because we love music. But we live hundreds of miles apart.
And so..... we are going to try and learn ways to get the sounds that are in our spirits to each other and see if their is still a spark. If there is still the chemistry that we know has never gone away. We want to write at least one song together ..... and see what happens. So I googled ..... Home recording equipment and got this place. I know next to nothing about the digital recording world and all its improvements. Went to Guitar Center here in town today and talked to the guy about "home recording" ....just to learn abit. Looks like I can get started for about $300 on what I'm hopin to do. Hope no one minds the many questions that I'm sure are going to come from this keyboard as I move forward.
My name is Mike
 
Hi Mike - welcome to the forum - you will find a wealth of information here and loads of sardonic wit :)

Recording equipment has come a long way since the 80's - for $300 you can get a 8 track digital recorder so I guess about 100 times cheaper now.

You should meet wheelema
 
wheelema eh? ok....I'll be looking for him/her as I read. Thx for the welcome
 
You should meet wheelema

:laughings::laughings:

I don't think wheelie actually likes anyone... even other Christians..

Welcome Mike.. good name for a recording person... it's never too late to write teen angst songs, I reckon... :laughings: :eek:
 
Welcome and Selah !
Alice Cooper was no teenager when he penned the lyrics to "I'm 18" !
 
Stay away from wheelemo. He's a troll here and has nothing to do with music.

ahhhh...... one of those eh? I'm familiar with trolls. And I'm all for Alice Cooper. I heard him do an interview on "Fresh Air" with Teri Gross recently and he said the reason he could still sing at whatever age he is now, is that he never smoked cigs. Imagine that.
You know what I can't find here, is the icon to add smilies + emoticons to my posts. I feel lost without them.
 
ahhhh...... one of those eh? I'm familiar with trolls. And I'm all for Alice Cooper. I heard him do an interview on "Fresh Air" with Teri Gross recently and he said the reason he could still sing at whatever age he is now, is that he never smoked cigs. Imagine that.
You know what I can't find here, is the icon to add smilies + emoticons to my posts. I feel lost without them.

There are a bunch of morons here that you probably shouldn't associate with, but wheelemo is among the worst.
 
There are a bunch of morons here that you probably shouldn't associate with, but wheelemo is among the worst.

You mean arcadeko was steering me wrong ??!!! A new guy ? Thats not very nice. I may have to write a song about him LOL
 
Hello Mike and welcome to the zoo!!

Just hit the go advance button on the bottom right hand corner for your selection of smileys. ;)
 
You mean arcadeko was steering me wrong ??!!! A new guy ? Thats not very nice. I may have to write a song about him LOL

I think he was speaking to wheelemo's claims of being a christian. He regularly promotes racism, bigotry, and profane language. He lies incessantly and his only purpose here is to instigate and create unrest. Some christian, huh? :rolleyes:
 
I think he was speaking to wheelemo's claims of being a christian. He regularly promotes racism, bigotry, and profane language. He lies incessantly and his only purpose here is to instigate and create unrest. Some christian, huh? :rolleyes:

Sounds like a spy to me :mad:
 
:laughings::laughings:
it's never too late to write teen angst songs, I reckon... :laughings: :eek:

This is absolutely true.

You mean arcadeko was steering me wrong ??!!! A new guy ? Thats not very nice. I may have to write a song about him LOL

This was an example of the aforementioned sardonic wit! :)
 
New old guy.....?

Not so much of the old please.

Alan (age 53)
 
I'm also a new old guy, older than you Senormac. Good luck with your project.
 
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