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Hey Gang,

Thought I would give you guys an idea what I sound like live. I made a living doing this in Chicago for a while.I saved at a lower bit rate to get it on here so it may be alittle "compressed" sounding..I put a much longer high bit rate copy on mypace where theres no limit. The novelty wore off yrs ago and Id rather play drums or bass in a band nowdays BUT, this is still fun to do occasionally. Please check it out , tell me what ya think.

Thanks ,
John

Does that mean it's you singing and playing geetar?
Nice lol. The talking in between makes it better than people who play like statues.

Thanks man, Yeah , If you were playin out 87-94 this NEW way of performing was a big deal.Kareokee was just coming into being.I had to compete with those people.THEY made the same 150-200$ a nite I did.I had an agent (Cheri) also to help promote this thing..The FIRST thing I said when I felt like I had the audiences attn was what you are about to hear is ME, and ME only.They couldnt understand back then cause no one had every seen a " Workstation" They would be lookin for the tape deck. SOOO, I had a great time on break , showin people how this works. NOW, I can either burn these trx to CD or port them to Mp3 player..BUT, I am SOOO spoil, I really bout have to have the keyboard THERE with me.Shes been a great friend for 18 yrs..

Holy smokes Johnny!,
I thought that was ol'Paul Rodgers himself at first! Good drummin' too.
I'm gonna go back and listen some more.
later,
Howlin'

If you guys would, PLEASE let me know which mix sounds best..My studio computer has a virus and Im havin to mix on small DELL speakers..Im gonna compress -12 db limit soft on another mix. It sound good on these speakers (fatter my live soundin)...Anyway, thanks Howlin. You can do wonders with the OLD keybaords..

John

The WAV short comp souds cleaner with better volume.
Good music dude!

The verson on here souds better to me. I wish I had a drummer anny drummer. Verry well done.PEACE

I love it! Very good!

The KIDD wrote:Hey Gang,

Thought I would give you guys an idea what I sound like live. I made a living doing this in Chicago for a while.I saved at a lower bit rate to get it on here so it may be alittle "compressed" sounding..I put a much longer high bit rate copy on mypace where theres no limit. The novelty wore off yrs ago and Id rather play drums or bass in a band nowdays BUT, this is still fun to do occasionally. Please check it out , tell me what ya think.

Thanks ,
John

Ah this brings back a lot of memories, thanks for the trip on memory lane, they all sound good to me but I'm no expert on this as you know but if I had to pick one for best sound I'd say " That'll be the day"

For the era good entertaing well played music.

I screwed up the title when I was posting, BOTH tunes posted are the same arr. One is compressed the other isnt.Thats what I was wanting to know, WHICH one was more of a live sound..Just tryin to get some opinions on making live mixes more "live " sounding by compressing then limiting slightly...I might fire the ole workstation up FT here if band bis doesnt pick up and Ill need to make a new demo..OH , thats right , Ive got a demo..Its a casstte mix down from the 4 trkfrom 91... ...Prolly wouldnt go over too good if I handed the club owner a casstte..

Thanks everyone for helpin me out.
John