Lookie what I found!
I was on a cassette tape trip today…Don’t know why exactly, but for some reason I’ve decided to dig through the archives again. To my surprise, I found some stuff I made when I was a Freshman in High School that doesn’t suck! As a matter of fact, I was pretty impressed. It’s very sloppy, sure, but it definitely shows a direction that I was taking in music at the time.
The following is the sound of a 14-year-old pre-Moot Booxle (I hadn’t been given the moniker yet) in the spring of 1998. The only instruments used are a Yamaha PSR-530 keyboard, and a Squier Stratocaster. I’m not sure if it was plugged in directly, or was going through a miked amp…I do remember that the effects were a Boss CE-2 analog Chorus and a Boss OD-2 Turbo Overdrive.
Recorded direct to a Pioneer cassette deck.
(that was the title on the cassette card!)
Moot! DUDE! I don’t hear any so-called sloppiness to this at all! Its a lot better then anything I’ve ever recorded, for sure, as is all your work. The song has this mysterious vibe to it that makes me want to boot up StarCraft and play as the Terrans a whole bunch. Its a fantastic song that makes me feel nostalgic and excited. If you’re don’t care, could I snag this as an MP3 for my iPod? Thanks in advance, and its cool if you say no (I can always have it play in my browser until the end of time, haha)
Quite amazing for a 14-year-old recording direct-to-cassette. Actually, it would be quite amazing for anyone! It’s very reminiscent of a lot of the jazz/rock fusion stuff I used to listen to back in the 70′s, i.e., Jeff Beck and Max Middleton-type stuff. You didn’t mention any use of percussion. Are the percussion sounds from the Yamaha keyboard, also?
BTW, Moot. I still have the PSR-32 and have it MIDI’ed to a digital piano right now, using it along with the Dotcom on a recording I’m working on. And my ponytail is at about 15″ now. I hope you got yours going again!
This is pretty awesome. A heckofalot better than anything i was doing when I was 14. Even the PSR drumming sounds good.
Hey Moot this is very good considering you age at the time you wrote it, performed it, and recorded it. Now tell me, what exactly makes Justin Bieber soooo popular? Let’s see that guy do something like this. This is true musical talent.