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| SHE'S A GREAT KID (1985)
(David Dubowski)
(performance by David Dubowski)
Bonus track! This song is not a song poem. It was recorded way back in the summer of 1985, when CDs were still very new. It was basically to try doing "sampling" which was fairly new in 1985, but I did it by replaying a tape over and over, and you will hear this near the end with the lady talking about stores and banks and bus systems. It was also to test a fake stereo echo, heard at the beginning when Jeff says "Look at that..." the second time. 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. 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. "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!
She's A Great Kid (1985) . . . . Copyright 1985 David Dubowski (davidwhy) |
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