These tracks were taken from audio tapes originally recorded while I was in high school in the early 1990s under less than optimal conditions. Then, for about 20 years they lived in a big rubbermade container in my basement until August 25th 2013 when I found an old walkman I "borrowed" from my friend (Matt Julich) somewhere around 1998 (never returned) and realized I actually had the equipment to record these to digital format.
This is the result, for what it's worth
We borrowed our friend Frank Torres' drum machine on a few of these tracks, you can really tell the difference on those. I think I programmed it most of the time because I used it to knock out a bass line, but Justin did several tracks too. In general, we started with the crappiest of equipment and found ways to come into better equipment over time. You can really tell the varying quality of music based on the quality of equipment we had on hand when the song was made.
The Birthday Boys are (er... were):
Honorable Mentions:
Oh, some of them have a long lead-in of silence, just be patient.
@TODO: Scan the pile of old photographs I have in a box showing us in action, because who doesn't want to see that???
This was the first of our "music" - done as a birthday present for our friend Tristaline Hall. We were mostly just playing around and, clearly, not taking it very seriously.
The majority of these tracks were recorded in my bedroom. A few were done at Josh Doehne's house or at Justin's but mostly mine while my mom tried hard not to beat us with a stick for making so much noise.
We got a little crazy on this one. We got access to the Olympic High School recording studio*, so we have a couple high end keyboards, an 8-track recorder, and a mixer. Much higher quality and sorta makes up for our overall lack of talent. Also different here is that many of these tracks show me playing keyboards along with Justin. This was done after I'd gone to college and was back home on summer break (hence the name "interruption", so a lot of the lyrics I wrote were influenced by people or experiences I was having my freshman year in college.
* Not all of these were done in the studio, by the way... you can tell the difference
These are unfinished tracks. Not sure exactly when they were made but probably toward the end of summer in 1995.