Hi Li’l Spaceman… a tough question but I guess supporting the Buzzcocks comes close.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
what happened to the “good” musicstand? Still alive?
it’s still doing active service thanks!
where was your favorite live show you have ever played?
It was expensive. It was cute. It was useless. A 21st century Luddite laments:
It was expensive. It was cute. It was useless……. I wanted to overdub a guitar solo and harmony vocals onto a draft track of a new Kathy X song. But would my new expensive cute useless device let me do that….?
Count-ins, fade-outs, panning, sampling, 6 live drum sounds, 9 guitar sounds, string section and fun-audio-experience graphics – No problem. Overdubbing one track? – Highly impossible.
So I did a non-overdubbed track.. No guitar solo. No harmony vocals. I wanted to e-mail it to Dr Duck the drummer so he could figure out some beats. However the fruits of my labour emerged in the form of a “CAF” (Confusion And Futility?) file which his computer couldn’t open.
I’d bought the expensive-cute-useless device because I needed a no-brainer bedroom-guitar recording device. Then I remembered – in another life that’s EXACTLY what I used to have. Two in fact. They were called “cassette recorders” I would record a song on one. There was a little dial to control the input volume level. If I didn’t get the song right, I wiped the track and started again. When I was happy with the recording I played along with it, making the final recording on the second player. OK, I couldn’t have converted the fruits of my labour into an MP3. But in the hours that it took to convert the CAF to an MP3 I could have jumped on a bus and taken the cassette round to Dr D. With time over to sample his HMP (home-made pizza)
just call me a 21st century Luddite!
IT’S TOO LATE – one of six new upcoming Kathy X recordings…..in which you can hear if I’m going to make it to heaven or not.
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On the subject of technology…….
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don’t go near the desk unless you’re planning on becoming an engineer
never was interested in all those sliders – and if it’s ok by Chrissie Hynde it’s ok by me!
Let there be Rock
Let there be drums….. there were drums
Let there be bass, guitar, vocals…..coming up next
Kathy X ‘s drummer, Dr. Duck has been a busy man – now we have the drumtracks down for five full on maximum rock tracks and one sleazy evil blues grind track. More recording next month…..physical and digital releases to follow
