And continuing backwards--
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buy my very first record for $2 or less!
Recorded in 1994 on a Tascam 16 track 1/2" machine with a Neotek series 1 or 2 16 track console. Strickly Shure sm-57's, until the end when we got educated and started using the gear from the previous post.
This record was literally recorded anywhere possible. Friends living rooms, empty barns, parents basements, hotel rooms...
So...can 2 23 year old hungry musicians with a vision make it happen? In 1994...YES!
But I'm sure the same could happen today if you had the vision and worked as hard as we did. We wanted it. That is the main difference between the bands you know and love and the 1000's that you've never heard of...DESIRE.
I lived with Kid Rock for a couple years and you have never seen desire for success like that. Eminem, same thing. Rufus Wainwright, same thing. It's like they are cut from the same cloth these rock stars. I've worked with 15 of the biggest ones out there, and they could have all almost been the same exact person. They go out there and demand it and demand it until it happens. That is what they want.
I just like making crazy gorgeous sounding music. The fame can suck a rotten egg. I remember my first interview I realized, 'this is stupid!'. So I went more into engineering, with occasional relapses into artistry. If I had been born 10 years earlier I'd be huge. haha
These days, do kids really have a chance? The gear is all chips and worthless. The biz is telling everyone they are stars but only selecting the most generic and decent looking, and then shoving computerized selling melodies down their poor little asses. I don't know. I'm glad I'm not 25 now!
"attention all planets of the solar federation...we have assumed control"
Neil Peart
There will always be an underground and a black market. If kids are going to create something origional and reactive, the voice of a generation will always resonate. It just won't resonate on FM radio or MTV anymore.