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My Life In Headphones - Demo Scrapbook

by Christy

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Web of Lies (1996) 02:44
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In Spite of Everything (Feb 1997) 04:07
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Hey What'd You Do Pt I (Apr 1997) 04:00
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By Occasion of a White Whale (1994) 04:46
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What Colour Is The Grass Now aka Something's Wrong (1998) 03:05
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Suddenly Summer (Aug 1996) 03:39
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Another Cup of Tea (1995) 00:33
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At Eden's Gate (1995) 04:04
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THESE SONGS ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD
BRACKETS DENOTE YEAR WRITTEN

Whilst recording new songs, i often remind myself of old songs, long forgotten songs. A key change, part of a riff, a feel, something, enough to get the memory cogs turning. It is then fun to work them out and see what they might have sounded like if they had been arranged & recorded with the bands I played with back then. I'll hunt through the old C90 cassettes which are home to the old 1990s demos, find the original scratch demo, usually just a guitar & vocal, sometimes with harmonies or a bass guitar, tambourine, always recorded pretty much live on a 4 track cassette recorder, some just on a regular cassette deck, and never cut to a click. Then i put that in the comp, find the tempo, and mimic all the parts that were there and build out from it, avoiding heavy editing of parts i might not include if the song were written now, to preserve the feel of the demo. Mute the demo and you have a polished version of an old song.

Why bother? I must admit, i don't know, apart from it's fun to revisit some of these songs - a few of dozens - that slipped between the minutes. They aren't the best of the old songs, they aren't the most musical even, they weren't selected, they just popped up whilst I was working on the new Greater Good, Ewa Reciak, Nathan Persad etc albums over the last couple of years and songs are better being heard, rather than gathering dust on a shelf.

There are three songs now, there will be more to come, there are already another dozen or so recorded, just awaiting a few unneeded minutes to finish them. I hope you enjoy these sketches, these memories, as they grow.

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released January 1, 2000

All songs written and performed* by Christy

*Additional player credits:
Nathan Persad - drums on Web of Lies & Suddenly Summer
Richard Burton - pedal steel on Web of Lies

Recorded, mixed & mastered at MileHighStudios, London, from 2010 to 2013, except where noted.
Copyright 2012 MileHighMusic

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I used to be a singer/guitarist with various rock bands, but now I am a father and husband first and foremost, who on occasions writes songs and produces various artists

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