She's A Great Kid 1985 THE ORIGINAL CRAZY DAVE

Recorded in 1985. Hear it in STEREO at http://www.archive.org/download/Crazy_Dave_Shes_A_Great_Kid_1985/Crazy_Dave-S...
In the summer of '85, I bought a set of used drums from the people at the Hatha Yoga house in Durham, North Carolina. The drums suddenly made the creation of sound-on-sound songs really easy, or should I say listenable. This was recorded with 2 tape decks, a mixer and some guitar effects. I'd record a drum session, then play along with the recording with bass guitar in a mixer into a second cassette decek. Then swap out the tapes and play along with that with a Fender Jaguar electric guitar. Then sing (or in this case play back interview clips) in the mix into the final recording. My friend Jeff had sent me a cassette tape describing his summer home after freshman year in college, and I grabbed that clip "Ah, she's a great kid, aw yeah..." from it. The echo on Jeff's voice was done using a 3rd tape deck and 2nd copy of the tape, one in each channel played just out of synch. So then David Dubowski became the one man band "Crazy Dave" which was taken from "Crazy Eddie" stereo stores. Youtube audio is mono and lower quality, click the link above to hear it in stereo. "Sampling" was done with multiple re-recordings from a 3rd tape deck, a recording Walkman clone. I asked people on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, "What do you love, and hate, about Chapel Hill?" There's a guitar fuzz pedal in one channel and a little bit of a flange pedal in the other. This track may be playing about 3% too fast due to a faulty tape deck when I transferred it to digital but it's still OK. The only occurence of my voice is the laugh after the guy says "It's damn good weather." I sold all the musical instruments I had in 1991 and didn't play again until 2005, when the wonders of the digital age lured me back. Funny stuff here!

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