1998-1999 summed up in a picture

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These were just brought back to me last weekend, after years in storage back home. Music written between autumn 1998 and late spring 1999, before I finally moved into the digital realm with Cakewalk Guitar Studio. I typically ran the tape at 7 1/2 IPS, and used both sides of each reel, so that would be roughly 9 hours of music. Most of it is original, but there’s also 2 or 3 covers I think. Limitations and constraints always seem to work wonders for creativity.

There’s also a few of my songs which the band recorded in the studio in 1997 for which I’d never gotten to record my guitar, because, budget... The old Sony reel to reel allowed me to at least record some very crude overdubs at home, and to somewhat “finish” those songs.

That old Sony and these reels were definitely one of the best Christmas presents ever.

I guess I'll have to start looking for an old reel to reel on eBay.