This set of music was recorded at a house party on Halloween night, 1982, in Phoenix Arizona.  It is the first time for this group to play "publicly".  It is also my first live performance in the first organized band I was in.  The band consisted of the amazing Tim France on drums and lead vocals; Tim Collins on guitar and vocals; Larry Bryant on bass and me on Guitar.   We put this list of music together in about 6 weeks having formed the band in September.  

The tracks were culled from the original cassette tape obviously recorded that night almost 31 years ago as of this writing.  I have been concerned for a while the tape might degrade and I would lose this snapshot.  The audio quality is, finally, very much improved as well, now that I have the equipment/software to apply.  Took that long :-/  Things start sounding pretty good around "Lonely Is The Night".  Amps have been turned up, everyone has had a couple of beers, nerves have settled and the party is getting rolling.  

Just a note: During "867-5309" the several 500 W stage lights,  we were trying to run on house outlets took down the power and we not so gracefully recovered once somebody reset the breaker.  The song ends abruptly for the same reason.  (No low power lighting in those days - it's all about atmosphere man).  We moved a couple of lights to another outlet between songs and had no more problems...yay-hoo.

We played our first official paying gig at a bar on the West side of Phoenix (51st Ave and Indian School) called "Arnolds 2X4" - no lie :-0 - it was transitioning back from a titty bar to a band bar lol (it went back and forth at the whim of the owner, Arnold), on Dec 31st. 1982.  We played many Wed - Sat  9pm - 1 am weeks there during the next year.  Sometimes opening for just the bartender and waitress promptly at 9 pm (usually Wednesday) and sometimes it was wall to wall (usually on the weekends).  This bar actually had two bars - the one we played in was only open Wed - Sat, so we were able to stay set up and practice in there on Monday and Tuesday.  The beer was free and it was a nice big room.  Those were the days :-) 

A consumer audio cassette deck with two condenser microphones of unknown mfg. hanging from the ceiling over the band in the small-ish living room where we were playing in was used to capture the recording.  I imported the tracks into Pro Tools through a Black Lion Audio Sparrow MKII ADC and applied mastering plugins to improve the sound.  The bass guitar is almost not audible on the cassette.  The processor chain is: 670 on mix bus; then in the IKMultimedia TrackS-CS plug-in: linear phase EQ, Quad band stereo imager, Opto-compressor; Quad band compressor, another 670, a little reverb, fEQP-1A; De-Esser; Brickwall Limiter.

This project is intended to archive and preserve this event for me and the other band members.  No infringement on the original artist work is intended or implied.  This music is not for sale or use by anyone.   This is obviously all cover material with one exception, "Change In My Heart" written by Tim Collins...no rights to any other music in this set is made by me or anyone in the band.  That said, enjoy a flash back to the Early Eighty's.

Chase - Halloween Party - 1982 - Phoenix AZ

See description in set: Chase - Halloween  Party - 1982 - Phoenix AZ

The Breakup Song - The Greg Kihn Band

Working For The Weekend - Lover Boy

867-5309 - Tommy TuTone

Running Wild/You Got Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest

Lonely Is The Night - Billy Squire

Nightlife - Foreigner

Head First - The Babys

The Ocean - Led Zepplin

Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp

Written by: Michael Elsner, David Thiele

Lose is a powerful rock ballad with big vocals and harmonies. Musically 	dynamic with lyrics about not giving up when times get hard.
In the style of: Duncan Sheik, Seal, Vertical Horizon, John Mayer, Coldplay

Lose / Chasing Saints

This is a tune Michael Heeney wrote with Johnny and I. Really fun song. This guys has all the skills man - so excited to be building his career.

Friday Night Mix

London is a 16 year old singer from Houston, Texas. She recently recorded her debut EP with multi platnium producer Warren Huart of Spitfire Studio. Her soulfully beautiful self titled EP just dropped worldwide through Mondo Tunes and Universal Music Group Distribution. London's passion for music shows in the depth of her songwriting and her absolutely beautiful voacals. Please follow london on facebook, reverbnation and londonlawhonmusic.com.

Lyrics...
Back To You
Written by London Lawhon 3/1/2014

Can’t forget our past love. 
Can’t live regretting it all.
Our mistakes weren’t worth making.
I couldn’t help myself, in love, I’d be bound to fall.
It’s the darkness that hurts the most.
It’s the lonely that chills my bones.
It’s the scars that hide the truth.
But It’s my heart that makes me run right back to you.
You were one, I should’ve never let go.
A memory of you that’s all I know.
You turned your back, on love in all. 
Tearing up my heart into pieces, to the ground you let them fall.
It’s the darkness that hurts the most.
It’s the lonely that chills my bones.
It’s the scars that hide the truth.
But It’s my heart that makes me run right back to you.
I know it’s wrong to want you. After all you’ve put me through.
But I’m helpless, I’m not whole. But I gotta let you go.
It’s the darkness that hurts the most.
It’s the lonely that chills my bones.
It’s the scars that hide the truth.
But It’s my heart that makes me run right back to you.


Back To You by London Lawhon

Trouble Is...

Blue on Black

We’re kicking off the show with a short mini-series covering every aspect of the mastering chain in turn – levels, EQ, compression, limiting and metering.

We’re going to be starting at the end and working backwards – and in case you’re wondering why, Ian explains during the show !

So in this episode we cover the “Three M’s” of mastering- and to find out what they are, you’ll need to listen to the show.

Show Links:

The acoustic treatment material we talked about in the show is Owens Corning 703, sometimes known as Rockwool.
http://www.gikacoustics.com/product/owens-corning-703-2-inch/

To find out more about using acoustic treatment to improve the sound of your studio:
http://productionadvice.co.uk/building-a-home-mastering-studio-part-3/

For more about loudness meters:
http://productionadvice.co.uk/lufs-dbfs-rms/

To assess the EQ balance of your music:
http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/

More about the mindset of mastering:
http://productionadvice.co.uk/heart-and-soul/


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