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don't know if this should be in the pub or here, but hey.

what was the first song you ever recorded, can be good/bad/cover/original whatever. I'm gonna post mine once i've transferred it from my tape deck, it's a bad cover of i am the walrus. i'd only been playing 5 months, so it'll be a shitty.

show them off

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B0CU1XYK

tis very bad

All of my first recordings are on 4 track cassette. I'll see if I can find a CD I burned with them on it. It was all Acoustic Instrumental Demos.

i don't have my first recording, but it was done with my shite £40 acoustic into an eyetoy plugged into a PC. sub webcam quality audio.

it was a cover of a cover, the nirvana version of jesus don't want me for a sunbeam. also one of the first times i ever tried singing.

mine was a cover of David Bowie's the man who sold the world.
coincidentally i played it sort of somewhere between Nirvana, and David Bowie

the cassette is around here somewhere.


also on a semi-related tale. i found a cassette in my library (read:dining room, except we have no table and only walls of books) that said abuse me, so i tossed it into the deck of one of my band mates car, anyways it had a bunch of acoustic versions of songs i'd written for this band and the previous band..
i was expecting it to be a mix tape.

Early last week I found the old tape of stuff I had done early on (1988-1989)...oh perish the thought of hearing it again. It was like hearing New Order's Temptation being covered by an old Nintendo console. Like many of our time, an old Yamaha MT100 was used as mastertape.

First time I got to record was a cover of Maxïmo Park's Our Velocity, and it was only just over a year ago. I play some real shitty bass on it, and it's generally a piss poor experience, the singer's brother had to do some recordings for his sound engineering degree and he got us to come down and make the recording. It took all day to record two takes, and he didn't even bother to mix them, he just basically used the second live mix. I hope he fails for that. I want to get "more into" music, I have a passion for it but I haven't had the opportunities.

Ive lost it for the moment...

My first EVER recording was a CD I made for my grandma of me and my guitar teacher playing classical duets. I must have been about 11/12 at the time. It was really bad quality, and some really basic tunes but she liked it. I will try and find it and upload some.

i actually don't remember...definitely a sat child tune...would've been in 98 or 99 on jason's old tascam 4 track...

I actually never bothered recording any covers in the beginning, but I DO have some god-awful recordings from my high school band that ill dig up.



and I'll sneak some of rochelle's old pop punk band

I've got a tape of old Doog stuff that I recorded shortly after I got my 8 track...and they're I have them on the PC! But they're not great, very "grunge".

Don't think I really have anything pre 8-track- my four track broke many years ago, and anything copies I had were probably on Minidisc, and I don't think I even have access to a MD player anymore..

Don't think I even have my sixth form band early tape albums anywhere a friend/helper made me a CD of them ages ago, but for some reason, they're mono, from one side of the stereo signal. So some of the vox or guitars are lost. Hmmm, might have to dig that up..

the first time i was recorded playing an instrument was in about 1995, i'd been teaching myself to play the organ for about a month and somehow ended up onstage at a battle of the bands without a clue what i was doing. the recording has long since disappeared, but i seem to remember it being absolutely dreadful.

i was thinking about the first recordings i did in a proper studio the other day, must have been early '98, i'll see if i can dig them out. some good music but the lyrics were hideous.

ROUND NINE self-titled EP

RELEASED: April 29, 1995. Simultaneous release with MP-01.

FIRST PRESSING COLOR: Clear Red. (500 copies) Black (600 copies)


i'll post a song later, if i can find it.

Me, and my mate Stu (The Razor Girls), him on drums, me on Marlin Strat through a Gorilla amp, playing Wild Thing and The Razor Girls Theme. Embarrassingly, I still play the latter. The tape no longer exists.

I used a Zoom 505 plugged into Minidisc player to to record myself everytime I came up with a new exciting riff. Some truly craptastic playing on there, think I chucked all those discs out which is a shame..

Also in 1999-2000 some girl I met online was into writing poetry, so I turned some of her words into an acoustic song with me warbling out of tune over about 2 buzzy chords, and then sent it to her via ICQ. She said it was rubbish. The end. I probably still have that mp3/wav somewhere, must dig it out..

this is my first actual first recording in 2001. till then there had been some sketches that just cannot be called 'recordings' so this is the first.
it was recorded in cakewalk with my brothers crappy korean fender acoustic. my mic was small computer speakers btw, funny how when you are willing you can record in any way, but now that i have equipped myself with all the nice gadgets audio interface guitar rig tube amps jazzmaster etc i dont record..oh well here it is (stored in tripod server since that day..quite cool)
http://s1nk.tripod.com/ghostly.mp3

Mine was a dull little tune that I recorded onto 4 track tape (that only had 2 working tracks on it) with the shittiest little PC snub style mic. I'm playing a semi acoustic that's plugged into a little amp with a distorted sound on it. I was trying to bring the tonez but sadly I brought the wrong ones. Basically I recorded the chords and at the end I had an idea for a little riff part so you hear that stuck on at the end at the end, when I just recorded the other part straight over it (before I forgot it). If I knew how to upload it I would, it's pretty awful (the time sig is all over the place) but I keep it as a reminder of when I started playing.

Doog wrote:I've got a tape of old Doog stuff that I recorded shortly after I got my 8 track...and they're I have them on the PC! But they're not great, very "grunge"

I still really like that stuff, you shouldn't dog it down so much - some great songs there and none of it is derivative.

I'm sure there is a bunch of August stuff around at my folks place somewhere, would be very embarrassing to dig it out, I cringe at my lyrics