Listening to old songs of yours

[romanianreaper]

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My first band right out of high school. This was our first real DIY recording attempt, about 20 years ago.

We did the local weekend warrior thing for a while, I wish I had stopped to enjoy & appreciate it more.

Dude that is good stuff!

 

[romanianreaper]

I like listening to most of my own stuff tbh, it came from my imagination so i suppose I should do

Even if it doesn't measure up to what I can do now, it's still interesting to hear the progression in playing and songwriting (Being generous with that second one btw).



This is my last one that just kind of wrote itself as I went along.

I dig it! Eric Johnson has a song with that twang at that tempo. Thr best songs are the ones that just come out of your brain. That is why so many of us love Faith No More.

 

[geetarmikey]

I dig it! Eric Johnson has a song with that twang at that tempo. Thr best songs are the ones that just come out of your brain. That is why so many of us love Faith No More.

Not sure where the FNM example came from but thanks!

 

[stratjacket]

Cool stuff. I went back and listen to some old songs a couple weeks ago. This is from 2008 I think. Me singing, yikes listening back. But it was so fun, I doubled just about every solo on the album.

 

[BenoA]

Taking a serious risk of sharing this but it's already on my YT channel.

From around 1989... one take bass and guitar jam. Bass played by a friend. Peavey Bandit with a cheap microphone in front. Drums from a Kawai K1 keyboard. Recorded with a Tascam 4 tracks.

 

[romanianreaper]

Not sure where the FNM example came from but thanks!

Yeah the FNM was in reference to their originality. No problem! Fun to create songs.

 

[geetarmikey]

Yeah the FNM was in reference to their originality. No problem! Fun to create songs.

Got it, yeah totally agree!

 

[Kordoba]

My first band right out of high school. This was our first real DIY recording attempt, about 20 years

About the time you recorded this, my area had a short lived music scene. Guys in their late teens-early 20s and your song reminds me of those bands. Thanks for posting it!

 

[Uzi Nein Millimetah]

My early home recordings suck. I had one that I added a trumpet sound on a key board and my buddy at work said "that sounds like you grabbed a chimp's balls".

What's wrong with synth-trumpet? Truly great things are timeless......right?

 

[Uzi Nein Millimetah]

I still like the songs/performances of my early demos, other than the fact I used a drum machine then. It had a good sound and I triggered it live, but as was typical for the time, no dynamics were possible, you got a full hit every time. I don't like drum machines for metal/rock songs, it's like calling a piece of cardboard "steak".

Years later I taught myself to play a drum kit and got a very good electronic kit for the studio, and that made all the difference. This reminds me, I still need to get around to re-recording and maybe re-working some early songs/sketches with the kit. My style hasn't changed much at all with trends, but I have much better gear + technique, and my songwriting toolbox has expanded bigly.

 

[thegame]

Hell ya . We did a single only . Here’s the other track

Really digging this one a lot. I like to use this busy riffing in the verses and opening up the chords in the choruses for my stuff too.

 

[Techdeth]

Really digging this one a lot. I like to use this busy riffing in the verses and opening up the chords in the choruses for my stuff too.

Ya it’s fun to let a song breath
And thanks man
It’s rare the game lguves tech love frik the heart

 

[Techdeth]

My first band right out of high school. This was our first real DIY recording attempt, about 20 years ago.

We did the local weekend warrior thing for a while, I wish I had stopped to enjoy & appreciate it more.

Hell ya ., the memories …. I miss it all

 

[BABMusic]

I still like the bassline in this tune we wrote as a band. The outro ain't bad. Of course, we didn't have a great singer and the lyrics are a bit cheesy. I played organ and the distorted guitar and did harmony vocals. We recorded this in a garage and no, I didn't know what I was doing.

http://sndup.net/9c6wk

 

[Steinmetzify]

I go back and listen to old drumjams every once in a while and there’s one that I think is great and I have zero idea how I did it.

Played in a ton of bands growing up and one of my oldest friends has a sister who taped everything.

There’s like 4 songs from that band I have no idea what I was playing or how I played it. Shit crushes on tape tho!

 

[BeZo]

Here is us playing a song live before we recorded it. We didn't have the intro or samples on it, just the raw song.



I miss being in a band that was intentionally wrong sometimes.

Side note: We opened for Dog Fashion Disco for their War Party video shoot. I blew up my Mesa 400+ on stage because I didn't plug the cab in, and Brian from DFD let me use his backup head. I then broke my glasses during their shoot. I'm in the video wearing a banana suit in the pit. I'm at 0:55 in the video.


Rough night.