DON LARSON
MAGIC MACHINES IN THE 70S
The 70s was the first decade of multi tracking for me. I bought myfirst 4 track reel to reel recorder in 1972, a teac 3340. Prior to that I used a Ford Philco 2 track with sound on sound, an early primal way to create more than two tracks. The results are les than stunning as you will see on the last two songs on the play list. They were created on the Ford Philco. The songs o the playlist are basically arranged from newest to oldest. Some of these songs are pretty rough because they were at the beginning of my multi track learning curve. FYI: the earlier tunes (more towards the middle of the list) do not have synthesizers in them. What I used at that point was an electronic tuning on an Acoustic 360 bass amp with two controls, coarse and fine. Not much of a tuner but a cool controllable oscillator, pill bottles for shakers, coke bottles for percussion. It was a wonderful era of discovery, or was it just the glory of youth that it seems we onlyappreciate in retrospect? Nope! It was really was wonderful then as it is in the rear view mirror! By the way thank you Todd RUNDGREN, for showing me the beauty of being your own band, that you can do it all yourself want or need to.
The 70s was the first decade of multi tracking for me. I bought myfirst 4 track reel to reel recorder in 1972, a teac 3340. Prior to that I used a Ford Philco 2 track with sound on sound, an early primal way to create more than two tracks. The results are les than stunning as you will see on the last two songs on the play list. They were created on the Ford Philco. The songs o the playlist are basically arranged from newest to oldest. Some of these songs are pretty rough because they were at the beginning of my multi track learning curve. FYI: the earlier tunes (more towards the middle of the list) do not have synthesizers in them. What I used at that point was an electronic tuning on an Acoustic 360 bass amp with two controls, coarse and fine. Not much of a tuner but a cool controllable oscillator, pill bottles for shakers, coke bottles for percussion. It was a wonderful era of discovery, or was it just the glory of youth that it seems we onlyappreciate in retrospect? Nope! It was really was wonderful then as it is in the rear view mirror! By the way thank you Todd RUNDGREN, for showing me the beauty of being your own band, that you can do it all yourself want or need to.
