Happy Xmas and so forth.
A couple of months ago I was picking up the some seshlings from nursery and a guy who was also picking up a kid said 'Hi, how are you doing, I was listening to one of your songs last night on bebo'.
This should of course be a nothing incident, something I'm sure that happens all the time to some of our younger posters but I'm from the pre digital generation musically.
It kind of threw me though for a few reasons.
a) I'm not on bebo or facebook of any of those things.
b) Although I'm now working on a new music project thing I had taken a huge break.
c) I completely didn't know who the guy was. This used to happen quite a lot to me when I was younger but I have to emphasise that it was as much if not more to do with my drinking habits than any localized fame.
d) We only sold about 50 tapes of this 20 years ago.
e) It was the morning.
Anyhoo I got home and started searching and eventually found the song he had been talking about posted by a relative of the singer of the band I was in 20 years ago.
It's unthinkable now but back then some of you will remember that recording was a scary expensive business. You would save for months and month(home recording was shit beyond belief) to go into a proper studio for a few days. This song was one off a demo that I and anyone I knew had lost about 8 house moves ago in the early 90s.
To cut a long story short I found myself having to fuck around with 8 utilities to get this thing onto my PC from someone I don't knows copy of an audio tape.
I've had it as an FLV file since then but have converted it to MP3 tonight.
It's not very original, the musicianship is not spectacular and it's very much of it's time - 1989. There were worse bands that did better than us though and, allowing for the fact that everyone was under 21 and I'm drinking just now wondering where the fuck the last 20 years went, it sounds not too bad.
Heartbreak City
Cheers!
A couple of months ago I was picking up the some seshlings from nursery and a guy who was also picking up a kid said 'Hi, how are you doing, I was listening to one of your songs last night on bebo'.
This should of course be a nothing incident, something I'm sure that happens all the time to some of our younger posters but I'm from the pre digital generation musically.
It kind of threw me though for a few reasons.
a) I'm not on bebo or facebook of any of those things.
b) Although I'm now working on a new music project thing I had taken a huge break.
c) I completely didn't know who the guy was. This used to happen quite a lot to me when I was younger but I have to emphasise that it was as much if not more to do with my drinking habits than any localized fame.
d) We only sold about 50 tapes of this 20 years ago.
e) It was the morning.
Anyhoo I got home and started searching and eventually found the song he had been talking about posted by a relative of the singer of the band I was in 20 years ago.
It's unthinkable now but back then some of you will remember that recording was a scary expensive business. You would save for months and month(home recording was shit beyond belief) to go into a proper studio for a few days. This song was one off a demo that I and anyone I knew had lost about 8 house moves ago in the early 90s.
To cut a long story short I found myself having to fuck around with 8 utilities to get this thing onto my PC from someone I don't knows copy of an audio tape.
I've had it as an FLV file since then but have converted it to MP3 tonight.
It's not very original, the musicianship is not spectacular and it's very much of it's time - 1989. There were worse bands that did better than us though and, allowing for the fact that everyone was under 21 and I'm drinking just now wondering where the fuck the last 20 years went, it sounds not too bad.
Heartbreak City
Cheers!
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