When I moved from NYC my friends and I used to keep in touch by sending nutty cassette recordings back and forth a few times a year during the late '70s early '80s. We did music and comedy bits. My buddy Mike did a sketch that was supposed to be a typical day in his life and its classic funny. 90 minutes long. He played all parts. Himself, his boss, fellow workers, his g/f, his mom. My brothers and I did comedy sketches of made up or spoofed TV shows complete with a hand drawn TV guide one time. We did crazy stuff like this. I've boxes and boxes of old cassettes with wacky stuff and I don't even know whats on half of em yet. I even recorded most practice sessions to see how some songs were sounding. Always recorded a jam. Many times on a cheap mono cassette recorder. Its nice to have these recordings still. Some of this I have uploaded to Reverbnation.com. Think About Your Troubles- This was recorded on a karaoke tape machine- double track player/recorder- through the built in condenser mics. I recorded the basic track and then played it back and sang/played along with it. Bounced it this way three times. The recording was made in the mid 90s. I got it off the cassette and on to the PC many years ago and added the little crowd bit at the end of the digital version. I just took it into CEpro the other day and tried to make it sound like it wasn't recorded in a bathroom, which it was(yep, thats a toilet flushing at the start), and I couldn't really do that. Gave up on it but did make it sound better. Edited it down from five to three minutes. When I recorded this I liked how it came out. But it fell far short from how I wanted it to come out quality wise. Timing was off here and there. A few distorted loud peaks. I'd share this with my NY buddies but on the innerwebs I thought no, it might be embarrassing, because there are quite a few flaws and the quality is not all that good. I was able to make it sound better with this recent remix. I'm no pro, but there are Harry fans here! And it don't suck! _________________________________________________ Below is a link to a blog where I'll share my recordings stored on Reverb Nation. Reverb is a great place for musicians to get exposure. I kind of mis-use the place and I appreciate that they allow me to do that for free. I'm not looking for exposure or PR, gettin signed or gig dates or anything. I'm there cause its a great place to store my recordings and share them online. THINK ABOUT YOUR TROUBLES is the first song on the player. As far as I know the player will continue to play thru the whole collection of my recordings stored there. There is over 2 hours of crap there if you're looking for a time sink. There's some good stuff there. Some really old stuff. Some original stuff. And some pretty awful stuff too:) Sounds like a lot of stuff. To me they're all just little slices of life. After the song plays you have to click to stop the player. Or leave the thread/page. http://thezvoncollection.blogspot.com/ OE: Had to remove TAYT as my home page song. It will no longer top the player( Its still in there, somewhere).