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About Me:
In 1999 I bought a CD recorder and churned out about 400 CDs which I gave away to anyone who showed the least bit of interest. I never tried to "market" anything and all of the CDs were given away to pretty much anyone I happened to bump into that year; many went to people at Queen Elizabeth's Training College where I was studying a City & Guilds in Audio Visual Technology.
I wouldn't call myself a musician or song writer. Playing music and writing songs is fun and that's why I do it.
I've done many other things in the course of my Life and hope to learn a multitude of further skills before I shuffle off these mortal coils. Life is bigger if one makes it so.
Robert Heinlein once said:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, pilot a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
I'll go along with that.
Almost everything was recorded in my bedroom on a Yamaha MT4x 4-Track Multitrack Cassette Machine.
I used several gutars and almost all the other instruments came from a tiny little box called the Boss DR5 (which is a drum machine that also has instrument sounds in it).
The tape mixes were mastered to MiniDisk and Re-mastered to DAT.
Special thanks are due to Andy "Ringo1" Reynolds for the Roland V880 CD Burn.
©1999 Benjamin Osler
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Hometown:
London
Country:
United Kingdom
Occupation:
Shipping Clerk, Bus Boy, Waiter, Ski Instructor, Desktop Publisher, Recording Engineer, Mixing Technician, Audio-Visual Technician, Video Editor, PA, Administrator, Computer Technician, NHS Receptionist.
Schools:
West Downs Winchester Prep & Marlborough College
Interests:
Magic, Magik, The Occult, Philosophy, Atheism, History, Puzzles, Hacking and Too many others to bother listing.
Movies:
The film "If..." (It reminds me of my prep school).
Music:
US Southern Rock (esp. Lynyrd Skynyrd), Stephane Grapelli, Yehudi Menuhin, Django Reinhardt, Mose Allison, The Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
Books:
"Alice in Wonderland" and the stories of P.G. Wodehouse.
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e :)