About My Albums

When I say that I've recorded albums, I mainly mean that, as I went about trying to learn how to play and record songs and other musical experiments, I would mix the tracks down to a master tape. When the tape was full, I'd start a new one. Over the years, I started to think of these as albums of music, titled whatever I happened to write on the cassette tape box at the time. I think the first musical recording I did (which appears on the album "Cool Stuff" (1991)) was in the spring of 1991, almost three years after I acquired the 4-track recorder. At the time I got the Tascam, I didn't know how to play any instruments. By the spring of 1991, I had taught myself to play the piano and had just acquired a drum set. From friends who were in college bands, I borrowed a bass and another keyboard, until I eventually got my own. In 1992, I got an electric guitar, but it was a really cheap thing that never stayed in tune. Eventually, I got an acoustic guitar, and I'm reasonably handy with strumming basic chords on it.

I find that I often tend to like listening to demo tracks more than I like listening to polished versions of the same material. This is probably because it humanizes the music, and makes it sound like my own stuff. Hey, it's just a guy with a tape deck goofing around. I can relate to that.

---jrw 09-25-03