Hearts In Her Eyes

ZZ Top song recorded by ME circa 1979-1981 on a cheap Sears cassette recorder with a condenser mike, dirty heads, and terribly oversaturated.  Most likely played an Alvarez acoustic guitar.  I love the way the cheap, condenser miked, oversaturated, dirty headed recorder captured this song.  It is from at least a second generation cassette tape,  Actually makes it sound like I wanted it to!

Heartbreaker-Buddha

I'm proud of this one.  Me and Lyle circa 1983 or 1984.  Lyle sings harmony...and plays the fancy lead on his Les Paul(?).  Old Michael Stanley tune. 

All I Ever Wanted-Buddha and Lyle

Takes a while to start as I tried to capture rain sounds at the beginning.  I love this old Don Williams song, "It Only Rains On Me".  I'm in good company with Don as Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend both covered Don's songs.  This was one of my first experiments with overdubbing.  Had a cheap Sears portable cassette and a Sanyo cassette that I used.   Recorded the rhythm and vocals into the Sears,  then played the cassette on the Sanyo while playing the lead and singing harmony and recording on the Sears.  Realized the Sanyo played faster than the Sears and had to retune the guitar.  Anyway....circa 1983 or 1984....used the '63 Jazzmaster which was always out of tune above the 5th fret....so the only way to play leads in tune was to bend....didn't always work. 

It Only Rains On Me-Buddha

Devo's theme and "Whip It". This was a fun one....back in the early 80s, it wasn't so easy to record multiple parts...no overdubbing equipment affordable for guys like us....but me and Lyle (aka Stephen Center)wanted to record this Devo medley.  Lyle plays guitar....but I play everything else, and sing....live.  You might not know this, but if you hook up a headphone to an amplifer input, it acts as a microphone and will amplify anything near it.  I strapped just such a headphone to my mom's 60's vintage chord organ (!) to get the cheesy keyboard sound.  Played that with one hand while beating a plastic cake box with a drumstick as hard as I could....while singing.  I'm using take 2 because Lyle had the guitar on overdrive for this one!  Also, pardon the incorrect lyrics as I couldn't figure them out!

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