This is the first time I have tried recording multi-track on cassette using two tape recorders.  I was basically just testing it out with a song I am working on that has some potential (some good stuff made it on around the 5 min mark).  The recording is pretty rough and is often out of sync, that's just me working out how to do this.  There are large sections at the beginning and end where I was just messing with stuff and that were part of recording.  

The takes in the order I dubbed them:
1.  bassy tele bridge pickup with the tone rolled off doing the main riff
2.  full tone tele bridge pickup with mid and treble boosted doing complementary bits and some soloing which actually turned out pretty well
3.  acoustic guitar recorded with magnetic pickup with boosted low end mainly backing up and sometimes complementing the first guitar
4.  djembe hand drum you can't really hear that well, but it is there
5.  vocals,  I had only written the three lines around the 5 min mark and the rest was improvised, they are recorded through me talking into the headphone speaker I put into the bottom of the drum, I just sang/talked into the bottom opening

All the guitars were put into my mixer through the line out on my Fender BXR 100 bass amp and the drum and vocals were both through one side of a small set of headphones I taped pointing up into the bottom of the drum.  I just monitored things with some other speakers I had sitting around, but I had trouble isolating them to get the mix levels adjusted on the guitars and drum.

Joshi Blues - Multitrack Cassette Recording

B Side to Don't Say It

Songwriting - Max, Lucas, George
Production - Max, Lucas
Vox - George, Lucas
Guitar - Max, George
Bass - Lucas

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Songwriting - Max, Lucas, George
Production - Max, Lucas
Vox - Max, Lucas, George
Guitar - Max, Lucas
Bass - Lucas, George
Keys - Lucas, George

Don't Say It (Producers' Cut)

I have been working on this since I read "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by William Blake a couple of weeks ago.  Some of the lines are lifted directly, other parts are altered, summarized, or just made up.  I would like to record it more professionally.  I am still getting used to playing with the drum machine and I also need to work on the transitions.  The first track was drum machine and rhythm guitar simultaneously, second was kazoo, and third was vocals.

A Memorable Fancy (Pre - Demo)

This is my punk rock reaction to twitter and pretty much all "news" media today.  The whole process of writing and recording this occurred in less than three days.  The chorus part was ambitious, so it frequently rejects the concept of being "on-time".

Lose Source

This is a reworking of Joshi Blues.  I used acoustic and electric guitars, a drum machine, and my voice.

Limarito

This is a new and improved version of my original song based on "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" by William Blake.

A Memorable Fancy

This is a cover of "Fathers and Daughters (Doo-Doo in My Butt)" by Dan Harmon and Ryan Elder featuring Chaos Chaos from Rick and Morty Season 3 Episode 9 "The ABC's of Beth".  I had thought about covering it and did this morning when I found the chords on my ukulele tabs app.  The beginning part is me switching from the recording app to the tab and then clearing my throat before I start.

Fathers and Daughters (R & M Cover)

This is a rendition of Einheitsfrontlied (United Front Song), from the German labor movement.  The lyrics are an amalgamation of several different translations I found online.  I also made the alteration to use she/her pronouns to refer to a general individual, though I also kept man as a general term. Lyrics, chords, and more information on the song: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14OWEof9ywCCIxIpZMiDImeZGjXHguitBQFunu8d0xlI/edit?usp=sharing

G.K.R. Spookyhaus

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