looking into the past
March 30th, 2009 
One of the only good things to come from my eye scenario is that I finally hooked a tape player up to the computer to digitize all the stuff I recorded to cassette during college. I’d had this box of tapes laying around forever, so it’s great to finally get this stuff recorded and mp3’d. Also, since most of doing the task was just listening, it was the perfect project for my eye. I figured this week I would post some of the recordings — not sure how many, most of them are so cringe-inducingly cheezy that I’m not really sure why I digitized them.
This first one is recorded in a piano practice room when I was going to college. My pal JW lent me his 4-track and I recorded a bunch of piano songs that I had been working on; digitizing this tape made me realize how much time I must have spent that Freshman year in the piano room. Freshman year wasn’t a good time, and I guess I channeled that stuff into the piano. The weird thing is, I would record these tracks and not re-do them if I made mistakes, so you’ll hear little wobbles in there and parts that aren’t quite 100%, but so be it. I think at the time I was mainly influenced by Windham Hill New Age music.
At the end of Freshman year I had to turn in a cassette of a bunch of tracks for some kind of class project, so my friend PH and I named them with the cheeziest names we could think of as a joke.
So please enjoy "Losing You and Finding Myself".
[audio:Losing_You.mp3]
first, it’s good to see new posts which hopefully means you are on a good road to recovery. welcome back jjosh. 2nd – this track is awesome and it conjures up images of numerous different movies, like eternal sunshine – this could have easily replaced jon brion’s soundtrack at certain points. i can dig it. and yeah, the title is perfectly cheez
wow, compliment indeed…I’m totally incapable of hearing this stuff objectively — all I hear is the bit where I rushed it, or the part I played real weirdly because I was nervous that Jack was in the room recording me, and I never played it like that before or since, the fact that the final chord should be stronger, etc.
and yes, on the road to recovery, but it’s a long one…
anyway, good to hear from you dr. k!
hey who couldn’t like a track labeled ‘Losing You and finding myself’
Loving these. I can’t enough of old 4 track recordings seeing the light of day. Keep em rolling.
Man – this track is fantastic
Hearing this, I am immediately back in that 4×6 room, watching jealously over your shoulder, thinking “must get this guy into my band” … on bass?
You lament the final chord not being stronger – the softness of the final chord makes the song so much more interesting & unresolved.
Love the squeaky pedals, too!
Dude… I had no idea you rocked the keys so well. Fantastic track. I agree with the good Dr. above- this would fit well into a soundtrack.
cheers,
-q