Ultra-rare “bootleg” - for the diehards only
KeithHandy posted in Funny ha-ha, Old skool, Songwriting on September 8th, 2007
A 1996 attempt to toss together a quick “pop song”. Do you really want the backstory? No, I didn’t think so. I’m simultaneously grooving on it and embarrassed for myself. Never one to hog the embarrassment, I’m generously passing it on to you.
I have a much higher quality copy of this demo on DAT tape, but this is from a cassette I ran off, and apparently is missing a guitar that comes in at 2:13. I’ll save my rant — about begging permission to borrow equipment just to be able to preserve music that I put all the work into — for another time. (Suffice to say, owners of expensive toys should be lining up to beg me to deflower their devices with my fertile and horny music.) Thankfully that’s mostly a problem of the past, with songs like this being the rare exception. I think I mixed it down quickly and then re-used the quarter inch tape for something else.
Anyway, the real reason I dusted off my cassette deck in is so that I can do some side-by-side comparisions between certain old demos and how the songs sound today. Might be interesting for ya. For one song in particular, I have not two, not three, but four progressively evolving versions…
