My Fun Little Project - Take a Listen!

TimothyJinx

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Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s I played with a band named Timothy Jinx. We were just a neighborhood band but we got around a little bit. We used to write songs and record them in what was my bedroom at my parent’s house. The equipment we had was crap and we had no idea what we were doing.

But I’ve hung on to those tapes for almost 30 years now. My initial intention was to digitize the reels of tape and simply restore and remix the songs into the best they could be. I quickly realized that many of the recordings and performances were very bad – funny how your memory works. So, I decided to retain and polish up the vocal tracks and completely re-record all of the music. So, what you hear is a song written by my buddies and me back in the very early 80’s. The music is new but the vocal track is 30 years old. Let me know what you think!

Warning: This is pure 80’s pop rock – don’t listen if that sort of thing offends you! :laugh:


A New Beginning
 
Sounds alright to me. Pretty much par for the course pop wise back then.
Your lucky your old tapes survived this long. I had a cassette tape from about the mid 70's that became severly degregaded before I could save it. And some really old reel-reel tapes of my dad that literally fell apart while trying to play and save them also.

Those things are priceless when you get older and can bring back a lot of good memories. So I'm glad you were able to salvage one of yours.

Zazacast has started putting together some videos of his older band from the 80's also.
He's got some kick-a stuff in there. And I even recognized Joe in his younger years.
The boy was rockin'. I'll leave it up to him to post a link or not.

I'm still looking for more from some of the bands I was involved with over the years.
Had a lot of good times playing music.
 
Sorry to hear about your tapes. Mine were in pretty bad shape too. A while back I read about studios "baking" their tapes with food dehydrators to temporarily restore some life. I tried it and it works very well. I digitally archived about 20 reels and only lost a couple.
 
Yeah, good tip on baking from Tim. Get it done before it's too late.

I'm going to plug Joe (ZazaCast) for a second if it's okay with you guys. Saw one of his other clips also.
I'm down for this when he get's it done. Rock on Joe.
(I don't think he'll mind me posting this public promo.)

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