How does it go again?

[-Asdfgh-]

I'm relearning my own stuff from 30 years ago .

 

[dougjwray]

This year, a fusion band I played with in the late '70s reassembled to re-record one of our tunes from back then. I listened to an old recording, and thought, "What a ridiculous part my young self came up with! Uh oh..."
Then I found that I literally couldn't play it anymore. (I eventually did, after days of trying four different basses and various fingerings.)

 

[bwildt]

25-30 years ago, I was recording non-original stuff in my basement. My own arrangements of songs, not just copying what I heard on the radio. Started with bouncing tracks on a stereo sound-on-sound open reel tape. Graduated to 4track open reel, then 8-track ADAT. Everything mostly played live with a little sequencing here and there. Learning songs, vocals, parts and instruments just enough to be able to record (with the help of a lot of punch-ins). Bouncing tracks to combine bg vocals. Everything mixed live on an analog mixer. No digital effects. No autotune. Old School recording.

I listen to them and impressed by how well they sound considering my primitive skills and equipment. After all these years, I have pretty fuzzy recollection of how I even accomplished the performance and engineering. To do those songs again would be completely starting over. A lot of the stuff, I learned parts just enough to get them recorded and then promptly forgot them.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

This year, a fusion band I played with in the late '70s reassembled to re-record one of our tunes from back then. I listened to an old recording, and thought, "What a ridiculous part my young self came up with! Uh oh..."
Then I found that I literally couldn't play it anymore. (I eventually did, after days of trying four different basses and various fingerings.)

Oh, the fingers of youth…..mine were absolutely jaw dropping…too bad it came with a 10 cent brain that couldn’t cobble together a good groove longer than 3 notes at a time…lol!

 

[Pdaddy1978]

These days, I'm just happy if I can remember what I had for breakfast.....yesterday .

 

[dbsfgyd1]

These days, I'm just happy if I can remember what I had for breakfast.....yesterday .

I have recordings for 50 years ago. Have you thought about taking pictures with your cell phone? Lol….

 

[FilterFunk]

25-30 years ago, I was recording non-original stuff in my basement. My own arrangements of songs, not just copying what I heard on the radio. Started with bouncing tracks on a stereo sound-on-sound open reel tape. Graduated to 4track open reel, then 8-track ADAT. Everything mostly played live with a little sequencing here and there. Learning songs, vocals, parts and instruments just enough to be able to record (with the help of a lot of punch-ins). Bouncing tracks to combine bg vocals. Everything mixed live on an analog mixer. No digital effects. No autotune. Old School recording.

I listen to them and impressed by how well they sound considering my primitive skills and equipment. After all these years, I have pretty fuzzy recollection of how I even accomplished the performance and engineering. To do those songs again would be completely starting over. A lot of the stuff, I learned parts just enough to get them recorded and then promptly forgot them.

^This sounds so much like my experience, starting in 1986 with a Tascam Porta One 4-track cassette. I, too, am "impressed by how well they sound considering my primitive skills and equipment." This part, too:

After all these years, I have pretty fuzzy recollection of how I even accomplished the performance and engineering. To do those songs again would be completely starting over. A lot of the stuff, I learned parts just enough to get them recorded and then promptly forgot them.

I was flying by the seat of my pants! I was just so excited about being to get what was in my head for so long on tape that I just did whatever it took to make it happen. It wasn't until later that I started making notes so I would remember.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

These days, I'm just happy if I can remember what I had for breakfast.....yesterday .

I've solved that by having the same thing every day.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Then I found that I literally couldn't play it anymore. (I eventually did, after days of trying four different basses and various fingerings.)

I've certainly had that with guitar parts. With bass parts. arthritis is getting in the way occasionally. I could never slap as well as Les Claypool, but I could do a reasonable impression back then. I could probably learn again, except I have no desire to do that style any longer.

I used to use some weird time signatures, though, or mixtures of them. Too much listening to Genesis et al.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I was flying by the seat of my pants! I was just so excited about being to get what was in my head for so long on tape that I just did whatever it took to make it happen. It wasn't until later that I started making notes so I would remember.

I made notes, which are (a) mostly lost (b) mostly illegible if I still have them (c) make no sense if I can actually read them as I never learned the squiggles on lines and stuff.