Old Stuff

The following recordings were made in various places with equipment of widely varying quality.

Message of Love (excerpt), written by Jimi Hendrix (MP3, approx. 1.4MB)
This recording was done at my drummer friend Lee Farah's home studio on a 8-track Tascam machine, if I remember correctly, through a Ramsa board; I played bass and guitar and sang (horribly), and Lee programmed the drum machine (a Drumulator), miced a real crash cymbal, and engineered and mixed it, all in one quick afternoon in 1988. I was plugged straight into the board through a Ibanez Tube Screamer, and also used my old Vox wah pedal for the guitar solo. I was really happy with the way the solo came out -- it was the first take (after recording the backing tracks). Lee thought the very last note of the solo should be an octave higher, so we overdubbed that one note, and something about the way it interacted with what was already there was really magical.

Boogie On Reggae Woman (excerpt), written by Stevie Wonder (MP3, approx. 2.9MB)
This was done on my own cassette 4-tracker probably in 1990 or 1991, using my Alesis HR-16 drum machine and a borrowed bass guitar. I was trying to channel Jeff Beck and it came out sounding more like Jerry Garcia... serves me right.

Strange Brew, "written" by Bruce/Brown, ripped off from Albert King (MP3, approx. 2.7MB)
This recording was done more recently with my home computer rig. Since I can't sing worth beans, I played the melody on guitar. There's overdubbed rhythm guitar and the melody is doubled in spots.

She's a Woman, by Lennon/McCartney (MP3, approx. 3.9MB)
The arrangement is roughly based on Jeff Beck's reggaeish version of the old Beatles classic that appeared on his mid-seventies album Blow By Blow, but it sounds nothing like Jeff Beck... (how I wish I could!)