These are a real treat, I haven’t got the time to listen to them all now, but I picked a classic to get the ball rolling. The marvellous Dave James and his recording ‘Squeals on Wheels’. This version has a 6 minute preamble by Dave and myself just talking total rubbish in mock ‘Smith and Jones’ voices. It’s a classic.
I also found an old photo recently of me being extremely young and full of hope.
God I must only weigh 9 st in this shot. Back in the day I used to read a manual before playing a synth… tut tut.
Sitting next to me was my first Casio CZ101, I love those things, such a cool sound to them (Dave still has a CZ1000, the bigger version). I remember I bought a big shed and set up a rack of synths and drum machines in there all wired to my Tascam Porta Studio, I used to spend hours out there at the bottom of the garden being all creative and making some truly bizarre sounds. I have a CD somewhere called ‘The Shed Tapes’ which is about 40mins of live synth twiddling. Not a classic, but my very own creation.
The smell of fresh cut pine still always reminds me of making music in the mid eighties.
So I am feeling the buzz of new music again, and want to listen to some classic stuff. Arpeggio’s in my head walk a meandering line down my backbone (past the dodgy bits).
Japan, oh that voice can be so depressing, but ‘Quiet Life’ has a quiet life all of its very own.
Take me to the far east Mr Sylvian, and don’t spare the horses.
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