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Oscar South
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Came across some old jamming recordings I made with a friend and my brother a long while back and then put onto soundclick a little less long back just now, was quite interesting listening to them. I think we'd played for a few years before this but not really recorded anything or jammed together much yet. Apart from questionable ability at the instruments (spot the fill where I'm just guessing notes and hoping they work :)) and terrible recording quality I think they don't sound too terrible. These are just 2 parts out of a much longer recording, but thats been lost by now. Anyway heres the link [url="http://www.soundclick.com/oscarsouth"]http://www.soundclick.com/oscarsouth[/url].

Any of you got any really old recordings kicking about?

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My first band pretty much only did recording as we didn't have enough gear to play live. We got involved with the DIY cassette scene in 1979 and as a result built up quite a reputation in those circles. Consequently there is now a compilation CD of recordings made between 1978 and 1983 available from Chicago's [url="http://hyped2death.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=31&products_id=39"]Hyped To Death Records[/url].

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Think the earliest record of me plaing that I have that remains is a demo our punk band did in 1979 at a studio i Didsbury Manchester. Its got three tracks on it. The bass player from that band is dead now as is the studio engineer that recorded it. The tapes a bit warbly but still plays

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Found two recordings from a 6.2 track demo we did.

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The whole band was recorded "live" with just two condenser mics hung in a room we played in, then vocals done over the top. The whole thing took an hour.

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The earliest record is me playing is probably a cassette I made of me, my brother and a friend of mine playing together. Me on my old Ibanez BTB405QM, my brother on his Epiphone Les Paul (he now swears he'll never touch another Les Paul because they're so poor) and a friend playing an awesome Takamine acoustic. It was all really naff instrumental stuff, for the most part. Songs by the Shadows, Gary Moore, Hotel California, Knights in White Satin and whatnot. But we also did a few cool tunes. Bad Moon Rising, a few Beatles numbers, Ein Kleine Nacht Musik, In the Hall Of The Mountain King. Despite the crapiness of some of the source material, I was really impressed when I listened to the tape last year. Very tight musically because we practiced it so much, and despite the fact we recorded it on a 4 track with a built in mic, the tones on the tape were awesome. There was also some free jamming on there, and the tape was rolling while we warmed up, so you can hear us all doing different things, playing different licks from what we were into at the time.

A really good listen, I sadly lost the tape, and the one live performance we did (at a Shadows club, no less!) wasn't recorded. Shame, because I took my Kubicki to it! :)

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Basically, I did some recordings for a guy who used to go to my martial art class at a proper recording studio in Old Street. Unfortunately, before I could get a copy my phone got stolen with his number. Not having any other way to contact him, they're probably lying in a box somewhere or worse. And I never listened to them. :) I wish I could remember his last name so in case he's on Facebook.

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The earliest recordings of me was about a year after i started playing, Its a live recording from bristols Louisiana, Its a pretty good quality recording.

I was using a Tokai P bass and a small ashdown Combo.

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Yeah the band were heavily into indie rock, Myself, not so much.

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[quote name='Oscar South' post='228798' date='Jun 29 2008, 12:01 AM']Came across some old jamming recordings I made with a friend and my brother a long while back and then put onto soundclick a little less long back just now, was quite interesting listening to them. I think we'd played for a few years before this but not really recorded anything or jammed together much yet. Apart from questionable ability at the instruments (spot the fill where I'm just guessing notes and hoping they work :)) and terrible recording quality I think they don't sound too terrible. These are just 2 parts out of a much longer recording, but thats been lost by now. Anyway heres the link [url="http://www.soundclick.com/oscarsouth"]http://www.soundclick.com/oscarsouth[/url].

Any of you got any really old recordings kicking about?[/quote]

I have four tracks by the soul band I was in , aged 18, recorded in 1968 at Matt Matthias's (Matamp) studio in Huddersfield .

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Got a hideous old C60 of my first band jamming in a church hall in the mid-70's. Awful playing (ALL of us but especially me), awful acoustics and awful recording but it gives my kids hysterics! I'd been playing about 3 days and had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to be doing! Not much has changed then!

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Some appalling tape of a jam band we got together to record (in me folks house - they were in) an 'Evil Dead' inspired tune, 'Raped By a Tree', with the thought provoking lyrics of

'Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta get away
'Gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna get raped by a tree'

I remember this was my first foray into the wonderful world of effects, with whatever the guitarist (who was in fact a bass player) brought with him all plugged in and turned up full. I only remember fuzz & wah and playing whatever parts of Metallica's 'Anaethesia - Pulling Teeth' I could. Loudly. And not feeling embarrassed in front of me folks. Must find it...

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Recorded using my Yamaha RBX775 (pre defret) into an Ashdown Electric Blue 180w. Some crazy EQing on my part... oh well at least you can hear it :).

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