Hail to the hiss

Hail hiss 196 at Donguecheon

Gemma out

CZ-1000

Forget forever

Sounds from Saturday evening

Out of time

If that's what she wants

This song is from my band The Sterling Virtues. The name of the band literally came to 

me in a dream, so I have to call them that. There is only one member, that is me. I 

would like some more contributors. I especially need a female vocalist. I would 

entertain a male vocalist if I thought they could pull it off. This song is obviously 

a work in progress. I'd love a chance to send someone the 6 tracks it was recorded on 

and they could help mix or add vocals. This was the best I could do on a 4 day weekend 

with a 4 year old I spend the majority of my time with. This song was written on an 

Ensoniq ESQ-1 Synthesizer(last piano lesson was 30 years ago) a Roland R8 drum machine 

(the second time I used it), and my baby, the Tascam 688 cassette 8 track. It was then 

mixed down to a mini-disk and then spit through a Tascam US-122 MKII computer 

interface onto my very very old Compaq Presario running Windows XP. I hope you all 

enjoy it and of course I am open to suggestions. The most important thing is that it 

came from the heart, it was a lot of fun to make and I can't wait to make more songs 

and get better. The timing is the toughest party. Next time I am going to enable the 

midi features on the TASCAM 688 and run everything through midi. Thanks for Ray 

Buttigieg all those years ago who was the first one to explain MIDI to me. I remember 

he heard my first demo (when I was 18) and I wanted him to sign me. He came out of the 

back room at Funhouse and gave me my tape back and said "There are a lot of good ideas 

on there". I was disappointed but it was a compliment. Hopefully the same holds true 

of my music today. Anyone who wants the lyrics, just hit me up.

Ryan Tintera

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