Ugh, at least half the bands I was in over the years had this fate. So many great bands I loved from SF CA and Seattle that went unnoticed and let's be clear here, the main thing most famous bands had was PR and sales skills. To this day I do some contract work for one of the more famous managers of multiple bands from Seattle. IMO the whole Grunge thing was a shit show and the two best bands TAD and the Melvins didn't have attractive front men, that's the music industry in a nut shell.But recording was a zero priority for us back then. In fact, if we hadn't got into working ITB, it's likely we'd never have got around to recording an album at all. So many of my favourite local bands from the 80s never released anything and, as you know, I f**king hate doing it so recording never mattered.
In the end that's all that matters. I didn't record anything on my own until 2001, was using a DP as a MIDI sequencer and an Emaxx III, everything was in flppy disks and scuzzy when I got an E6400.With the Z1 and recorder boards, the Korg Trinity was a full-fledged DAW in hardware. The external SCSI drive made it a bit unwieldy but it got the job done.
One thing that's really true, even mediocre bands have a Bandcamp and some physical evidence of their existence. Yes there's massive amounts of trash, but at least if you loved some local band from a few years ago there's some recordings.
Statistics: Posted by machinesworking — Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:26 am