{"id":31719,"date":"2023-12-11T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=31719"},"modified":"2023-12-12T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T13:20:20","slug":"scrapbook-page-4-love-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2023\/12\/scrapbook-page-4-love-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrapbook Page 4: Love on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

My homemade recording of Love on Sale<\/em> turned 50 years old in 2022.\u00a0 Love on Sale<\/em> was one of several dozen multi-track songs I recorded in my college dorm room from 1970 to 1974, when I should have been studying physics, chemistry, fugacity<\/a>, reactors and tensors<\/a>.\u00a0 Or not — as I still managed to graduate and have a career in engineering.<\/p>\n

I have my friend Lou Trott to thank for demonstrating how one could record songs of one’s own devise, track by track, on a sound-on-sound tape recorder.\u00a0 It was eye-opening, like someone showing you how to build an airplane and fly.\u00a0 Once I recorded my first crude song on Lou’s four-track recorder, I was hooked and I had to have a machine of my own.<\/p>\n

Why am I sharing Love on Sale<\/em>, out of the dozens of my recordings, as an example of my college output?\u00a0 Probably because it’s the only time in my life in which I semi-competently played guitar licks in the style of Chuck Berry.\u00a0 Back then, I was under the impression that great guitarists<\/em> just made up what they played as they went along, everything improvised, nothing practiced.\u00a0 I was good at the “nothing practiced” part.\u00a0 My musical friends seemed to play licks effortlessly, and I envied them.\u00a0 Love on Sale<\/em> was my first and last attempt to emulate them.<\/p>\n

Besides, as one can tell on first listen, it’s evident that I had just changed the strings on my guitar to a lighter gauge and discovered that I could now bend<\/em> them!\u00a0 Another meager justification for sharing this recording.<\/p>\n

I have a great deal more to say about the recording at ART@CHC, where I have posted the audio<\/a> along with far more historical context than necessary.\u00a0 I have freshened up the mix to sound like I think it might have sounded in October 1972, minus five decades of oxidation.\u00a0 It is what it is, a selection from my musical scrapbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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