Making music

[FUNKGRAVY]

Besides playing out in a club, there is nothing more satisfying than recording your own music. I have been most fortunate to have written or been apart of writing in excess of at least 20 or so songs. Not all of them have made it to CD or tape, but one day they will. I find so much satisfaction in letting new people listen to these songs, and one day I will still be able to share them with my grandchildren, or whoever else will listen. What are your thoughts about capturing that moment of time, and creativity that is so precious? http://www.zentao.com/ubb/tongue.gif

[StoneDragon]

I had some stuff I improvised onto a four-track that got left behind in a move... I sure would love to have those tapes back http://www.zentao.com/ubb/frown.gif

I believe that if possible, you should record everything (I should take my own advice). You never know when that "certain" performance is going to come out that you will never be able to recapture.

I can't tell you how many times I have been in a situation where somebody important asked to hear some of my stuff and I didn't have a tape with me... live and learn.

[Ben Jackson]

I love recording my music and stuff I play with others.

Spent about 6-8 years playing with bands and barely recorded anything, Now I think it would be great looking back to have a decent recording of some of the stuff we did.

Of the stuff I do have which are some tapes and a couple of videos, it can be hilarious listening back to what you played several years ago because you have a
detachment that you can never get around the time you recorded it. It can almost be like listening to somebody else playing which is cool.

I had a video of a band I was in just after I left school (10 years ago) and I recently bumped into the guys who were in the band with me at the time. We got the
beers in and watched the video of ourselves 10 years younger. It was very amusing, only to us guys who were involved but it is nice to have a record of what you've done.

So, now whenever I go to a band jam/practice I bring along my little Aiwa tape recorder and hit record, then listen back to it in the car. If there's anything cool i'll keep it otherwise it gets dumped.

I'ts also amazing with computers now that we can and do produce better quality demo's at home than a lot of cheap demo studios could a few years ago.

Later

Ben
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[StoneDragon]

I was just digging through a pile of unlabeled tapes to see what was on them and ran across a jam that I had with a couple of guys several years ago. Some of the stuff on the tape is very cool and I plan to develop the ideas into full scale compositions. Without that tape machine rolling, I probably wouldn't have even remembered playing with these guys.