I found a cassette tape the other day dated 1982. It was a recording of various covers from James Taylor, Supertramp and John Martyn along with a couple of instrumental originals. It was recorded on a standard stereo cassette recorder using 4 cheap microphones through an equally cheap mixer.

Quality? Not tremendous.

Nostalgic? Very.

It was recorded in the front room of my first wife's parents house. Just set the mic's up and hit the record button and lets see what we get. No practice, just go for it. I was quite surprised with the quality of the playing. The vocals were a bit dodgy at times, and remarkably higher in pitch than I can manage now, but good none the less.

Why do I mention this?

Well, is it normal to hear a particular guitar/bass line that you have played on a recording, but cannot remember playing it, or even believe that you were capable of such a complex tune/phrasing?

While I am re-working the lyrics for the chosen tracks for my forth coming CD, I am listening to some recordings of older songs, just to get a feel of what I thought they originally sounded like.