Is that 2" tape or are you just glad to see me?

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It's the tape nostalgia thread...

Sam's got rust particles falling off his tape... it's magic dust! Don't lose it! :D

GT, thanks... I wonder what's next, too... smaller and smaller media???

Track Rat, the first song is drum machine (some kind of old Roland), and the second one is a real drummer. I'm like you, I like the drums on #2 much better. Thanks, man.

(p.s. Sam, we want to hear Busiest Graveyard!)

Mark
 
I was trying to figure out who this sounded like when I passed jeap's Hall and Oates comment. Yep - it's them.

Fun song.

Itchy trigger finger on the vocal reverb huh? :D Well, it was a product of its time.
 
this is good quality recording, good tune too...
thanks for posting mkg... nice arangement... very pro stuff...
i'd say it stood the test of time... still sounds good :)
 
yup!!!!!!!!!

i m sure i had a mullet and a thin tie, when stuff like this was on the radio!!:D

man i love to hear this old stuff!!!! fun!!!!!!!

thanks

peace

rick
 
TripleM, yep... things got pretty wet in those days. :D
Thanks for listening, man.

Fed, thanks very much, appreciate the listen!

Rick, mullet and a thin tie... nostalgia trip. :D
Thank you, sir.

Mark
 
That's really cool mkg. I love hearing these old recordings like Lt. Bob's stuff. I wish I had some of my first recordings with a Tascam Porta 05 4-track. I would stay up until 3 am on a school night recording direct and bouncing like 75,000 guitar tracks, and then record some spoken word thing over it. MMMMM Great sound quality that was.

I hope things work out for you with the cd! I'm jealous. :D Good Luck.
 
ahhh the good ole days.

i used to love the sound we used to get outta the tape four tracks of the 80s. if i can find any of my old tapes from my high school band from the 80s i will post some, it was recorded live and the four track was plugged directly in to our mixer, and man was it warm sounding. my band i was in when i was in high school was called acez and we did all the 80s rock like poison slaughter warrant extreme, and many many originals. we were the wexford county D.A.R.E drug awareness resistance education band and we travelled all over michigan and played at schools. wow those were the days. ill try and find some and post for you guys. thanks for sharing all these memories guys. tim pate
 
that was a cool share. Thanks.
I've spent some time with a cassette 4 track and still can't believe I had enough delusionary ego to call it recording. When I recently started up with the digital domain, I realized it was all me, not the medium:(
 
Very cool. Kind of a cross between Stevie Wonder and Phil Collins. :)

Like the lead guitar playing. Bit jazzy/fusiony, great!

Great singing!

Between that time and now, I find the stylistic changes more interesting than the sonic aspects.

I really wanted to hear 'th th-th, th th-th' and other swung varients on the hats, and ride, rather than 2 and 4. But that's la vie.

Rock on! Enjoyed it very much.
 
everybuddy WANG CHUNG tonite

Whoa, Huey Lewis & The News "Power of Love"!!! :)

Great soundtrack material... if they do a sequel to "Grosse Pointe Blank", this should be on it!

That floor tom sounds great... great subwoofer stuff ;)

Fortune teller, always talkin' bout the things that will never happen...


Chad
 
Oh yeah, this has a total 80's feel to it! Very cool stuff...I can totally imagine this as one of the songs in Beverly Hills Cop...

My son says it reminds him of Sting with an 80's touch (I didn't tell him that Sting was around in the 80's ... lol)

Nice job!
 
Just got home from rehearsal to find more great responses, thank you all very much.

Tom, amen, I dig the hell out of Lt. Bob's tracks.
Those were some great times, when we were all learning about bouncing, sound-on-sound, etc... who could have imagined the digital revolution? I hear you loud and clear about the late nights, too. I sure hope we can produce a cd by year's end, but we're notoriously slow about stuff. I got a chuckle from your line about "75,000 guitar tracks." :D

Flash2ace, man, I'd love to hear some of your old tapes... hope you can get some posted. Very cool what you were doing, I'd especially like to hear you original material.

Theron, why I oughta... You are your own worse critic, you know that? Your stuff is excellent. If I could play you some of the things I recorded on quarter inch reel-to-reel... I felt the same way. But you know I'll always give you a hard time when I think you're being too humble. :D

Emeric, thanks very much... you're the first to make the Stevie Wonder connection. We almost felt like we were ripping him off with Fortuneteller when we cut it.
Bob Blackford (co-writer) played the guitars and keys on the cut, he's been the ace around these parts for a long time.
Drums would be cut differently nowadays, I hear what you're saying about variations...would add some life to the cut.
I liked your observation about stylistic changes, very interesting.

Chad, thank you sir. Wouldn't bother me a bit to have this on a soundtrack! I've always dug the tom intro to the song. It was originally cut using a drum machine, then we scrapped that track and a real drummer played it... pretty tricky, but he did a great job.

Boydrj, cool, another mention of soundtrack... let 'er rip! Your son is the second person to mention Sting, that's a great compliment to our singer. Thanks, man.

Mark
 
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Bearing in mind when this was done, I thought it was a damn good production and sounded pretty good too! The song was well written. I can see reflections of the times--like I hear some Hall and Oates (yes thats really "oats") and a few others. I liked that lead guitar tone too.
 
Al, thanks very much. I gotta tell you what a groove it was to listen to the cuts from '66 by your band Radar. Damn good stuff.
Were you still around Atlanta for the '69 music fest at the Atlanta Raceway? A few of us drove down for that, got to see Janis Joplin, Spirit, and many others.
But the coolest thing was when they announced that there was going to be another festival in New York state at some little town called Woodstock.
I remember saying to a buddy, "Nah, one of these a year is enough for me." :p
 
I missed the 69 fest in Atlanta. :D I was in Detroit by then. We had a number of those outdoor festivals in Michigan until the governor shut 'em down due to people being too "free". Tsk tsk--can't have that in a democracy you know...
 
Crawdad, I lived in Detroit in 69. Just a few blocks from Fisher body plant (were the Cadi's were born).
 
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