Slow, grinding blues featuring an electrified kazoo, silly voices, and audio/mixing humor.

I played and recorded this in 2008–2009 while learning home studio techniques. Percussion sounds include tequila and Mexican Coke bottles and a t’ai chi drum (as if that’s a thing). The drum set was digitally created, but everything else is real.

The complete story:
http://bernie87fl.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/final-mix-of-symbolic-dog-blues/

I got the mix to sound decent on a laptop if you turn it up. Real speakers or headphones will bring you the full, heavy grindingness I was going for. But if you're gonna play it on your tiny phone/tablet/watch, I take no responsibility.

Symbolic Dog Blues

just testing - two-part recording I made at age 16 in 1985/6, raw import digitized from cassette, no cleanup

08 Bach Invention - solo

I'm 13, my little brother is 8, and my next-door neighbor just bought a guitar ... sounds like trouble! This is one take through a Radio Shack mixer with a tiny Casio keyboard pumping out the beat. You can hear the Casio go "boop" when we "kick it" by pressing a low E.

1982-1986, recorded in my room as a teenager, mostly solo, sometimes with friends, using stereo 1/4" reel-to-reel tape as a two-track recorder and ping-ponging to cassettes, compiled to cassette "Stuff by Me" and digitized in 2009

00 Next-door Neighbor Jam in E

If you'd been a guitar-playing teen in 1984, you'd have covered Jimmie Hendrix too.

1982-1986, recorded in my room as a teenager, mostly solo, sometimes with friends, using stereo 1/4" reel-to-reel tape as a two-track recorder and ping-ponging to cassettes, compiled to cassette "Stuff by Me" and digitized in 2009