Steve Thompson

Rediscovered this on my iTunes today. When I was in the Whitaker Band I produced an album "The Tuesday Club" circa 1999. This is one of my many unfinished songs and we slotted it between the tracks as if it got there by accident. Sorry, it's my naff vocals - maybe I should dust off the rest of the album. Once I was a loner, How did I survive? 'till the day you came my way I was barely alive Once I was a poor man with nothing to my name but a worn overcoat and a crooked walking cane

Steve T

I once worked with an Irish audio engineer, I don't know if the fact he was Irish has a bearing on this but he had an interesting way of determining the length of pieces of music. He worked in a studio run by video production outfit and would be asked to music of a specific duration - quiet often 28 second for commercials. His solution was simple: the music was produced on a machine running at 15 i.p.s. (15 inches per second) therefore he deduced that a 28 seconds long piece of music would be 420 inches long i.e. 35 feet long. So he would take out his tape measure and measure off 35 feet, snip it with a razor blade and deliver it to the video producer.

Steve T

Computer recording vs the old days: spent about 4 hours yesterday trying to recover a lost track. Weird stuff with lots of blind alleys trying to rectify.  I'd done all the right things with incremental saves and backup files but it seems many of the saves were corrupted. So how would this play out in the old days? - If a tape became corrupted? I guess we'd have given up sooner and re-recorded rather than trying to recover or rebuild. I guess the lost time might be similar. There's always the fear of losing some of the magic of the original take but then: magically, the rebuild nearly always turns out to be better!

Steve T