09:37 am
I Am So Damn Old, Garage Band Edition
Peter Suderman at The American Scene:
It wasn’t until my senior year in high school that anyone I knew figured out how to do multitrack recording on a computer. Before then, we all played with broke-suburban-kid analog solutions: karaoke machines and dual-tape tape recorders attached to Radio Shack microphones, perhaps a church sound board or an ultra low-end four track if anyone could get their hands on one. We spent a lot of time — hours upon hours — building weird contraptions that combined pillows and cardboard boxes and odd amp configurations in order to get the sounds we were looking for, or at least to figure out what sounds were within our reach. Most of it was pretty primitive, but the results we got were, I think, far better than they had any right to be considering our total lack of professional equipment or training.
Now I’m a music geek. I’ve owned thousands upon thousands of albums. The 120 gig iPod is too small for my collection. I even managed a record store in graduate school. And god knows we tried to mix things up. But if you had told me that high school kids could produce better music using a computer, I would have laughed my ass off — computers were for programming primitive Star Trek war games in Basic.
Yes I’m that old. This is more my speed:
I guess I’m an old sad bastard now.
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