Father Time
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6/18/2015 1:55:24 PM
remembering my safety deposit box
So anyway I sold my baseball cards and bought my first electric guitar in 1981, and this is when I started to write a lot of songs. It was 82-83 when I bought a 4 track Tascam portastudio and painstakingly learned how to use it. So, I recorded all these songs and these songs I felt were pretty much the best representation of who I am, the best of me.
At the time there was no such thing as an mp3. I sent a few demos out to companies and managers but it was kind of an impersonal thing, occasionally you'd get some guy on the phone who would tell you what you sent was in his pile of cassettes. heh
I got my songs copyrighted but started to feel uncomfortable when I had a couple full shoeboxes of cassette tapes with full songs recorded on them, all the instruments, vocals, harmonies, etc.
I decided then I needed to put them in a safe place, so I rented out a safety deposit box at the local bank, where I would ceremoniously go in and put new tapes in, take tapes out. It makes me both smile and blush now thinking back on how important my music work was to me, my precious tapes needed to be stored away so nobody would steal my songs. Years later they would be available online, often for free downloads, my lyrics available to cut and paste, even my artist name which I trademarked rather expensively would be usurped by many other artists.
Anyway I guess I still feel the same way about my songs. They're my lone personal possession kind of. When I die they'll still be online, somewhere.
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Bryon Tosoff
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6/18/2015 2:06:47 PM
I rather like this share of something personal, important and revealing as well. Its a really good thing, interesting the treasures you had in the safety deposit box. I would have never thought to do something like that, and i think very few others would safeguard their music in such a way, brilliant. Love the Story and how you cherished those days, your songs and how they are now a part of your legacy as well. good one
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Noah Spaceship
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6/18/2015 4:00:38 PM
That's awesome, Scott. I got my portastudio in '87. I still have all my cassettes as well. I recently started archiving them to digital.
Speaking of lyrics, though, I noticed you have none posted on your songs here. What gives?
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