New Podcast Posted May 2, 2006
by Tom Anthony on May.02, 2006, under General Posts
This past weekend my wife Marsha and I participated in the 12th annual Parkinson’s Unity Walk in Central Park. – Link to Pictures – This was my second year, and I feel fortunate to be able to join in such a worthwhile event. Over 9,000 people showed up to raise over 1.2 million dollars – 100% of which is going straight to Parkinson’s Research.
While we were traveling I fiddled with a recording of song I wrote and recorded back in 1987 called “One More Sleepless Night”. I had used a little Roland drum machine – I think it was a TR-808 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808) – in any event the machine allowed you to program in a chord pattern and was intended to be used to accompany a solo guitarist. Obviously a guitarist with a lot of patience – since it took many hours to program each song.
I would leave the recorder going and just play the song over and over – For this mix I started to use bits from four different takes which were part of the original recording. Apparently I was tweaking the tempo (BPM) settings because they were all four different. That was not working so I picked the best of the four versions and ended up using a couple of passages from a second version.
Here it is – obviously an armature recording – but not a bad song I think. If you do podcasts you already have a reader – like (free) iTunes or the (free) RSS reader in Google – and the subscribe link is below. If not here is a link to the actual file.
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