red hot chili peppers 1982 demo

[olfunk]

hello
just wondering, if anyone has heard this, if they know how it may have been recording. the sound quality is not good at all, but the spirit of the live performance is really captured. its as though, because it sounds so bad, it sounds good.

 

[frankieballsss]

I remember hearing that recording awhile ago. I think it was probably done with your run of the mill 4 track with some mediocre mics. The mix may sound energetic, well because they are an energetic band, particularly back then. I really would not take the intentional route of "crappy sound" but "great energy", besides demo purposes.

I heard most of the albums that John Frusciante has done, and while he does have some nice songs, I don't favor his minimialist "plug and play" approach to his recordings. He has the means to make great sounding recordings, so he should man up and put the extra work in.

 

[olfunk]

i dunno, part of the beauty of his work is sometimes the shittiness of the sound. its like nirvanas nevermind album. its got a great sound, but it could definitely do with some screwing up.

 

[tourettes5139]

I don't particularly like Nevermind's sound. It seems way too polished and smooth for my tastes. Don't get me wrong, I love Nirvana, but that sound that they have kinda bugs me. Butch Vig's mix of Teen Spirit on the Nirvana box set sounds better, not so polished, but he is limited by how the tracks were recorded etc.

Sorry for the hijack.

 

[olfunk]

yeah thats what i was getting at, the polishedness

 

[DonGraham]

i dunno, part of the beauty of his work is sometimes the shittiness of the sound. its like nirvanas nevermind album. its got a great sound, but it could definitely do with some screwing up.

Man back in the early 90's when Nevermind came out...it was so "unpolished" compared to other bands..thats what made them the "NU Sound"......I never liked Nirvana at the time.....I really thought bands like Dream Theater, King's X, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains were much better bands.......but then again sound engineers never were the predictors of the "new scene"....


welcome Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, and ashlee simpson........

 

[LRosario]

Goes to show you...find the next big thing and all you have to do is record them semi decent. The rest waits to go down in history.

Maybe someone out there will be the father of the "NU NU Metal" sound. Or maybe the "002 Rack, in the middle of my moms living room" sound.

 

[DonGraham]

Maybe someone out there will be the father of the "002 Rack, in the middle of my moms living room" sound.

Not to far from the truth...

 

[olfunk]

yeah there's so many shit acts out there that have a "good" sound - good = radio friendly. radio friendly = people will buy. people will buy = already rich people getting richer. although to be fair, who can blame someone who's trying to sell records, its just that they concentrate so much on having a radio friendly sound, they forget the importance of good music.

 

[invisiblenemies]

I heard most of the albums that John Frusciante has done, and while he does have some nice songs, I don't favor his minimialist "plug and play" approach to his recordings. He has the means to make great sounding recordings, so he should man up and put the extra work in.

I think half of the appeal of Frusciante (at least for me) is the minimalist approach to recording. A good song can stand on its own - there's no need to polish it up. I've always believed in the thought that if a song sounds good stripped down to 1 guitar & vocals then it's a great song.

...Although, his last few albums (shadows collide & a sphere, for instance) have had fantastic sounds. However, I still listen to the lo-fi 'Niandra LaDes' & the ultra-lo-fi 'smile from the streets' & think they are genius.

 

[olfunk]

i had the smile songs about a year ago on my pc, just got them again, they're pretty darned amazing! the guy was still makin good music, on the edge of death. to be fair, it was for cocaine and heroin money but it still beautiful. my favourites are height down and i may again know john.

 

[ryanlikestorock]

May I suggest listening to Akron/Family on their self-titled LP. It's a recording that sounds like it could have been done in a living room on an 8 track, but that doesn't slow it down at all.