During one of many recurring attempts to sort out my song related material I discovered that, on a previous
one, I had filed most of the written words in a large black folder.
Recently I returned to the
folder and selected from it approximately one hundred and fifty items. I chose
only those which, at some stage of their making, had been given sufficient
words and enough of a tune to be recorded onto cassette, reel to reel or dat
tape.
An old recorded version of
each one was then located. The majority were on my main computer having been transferred
from the various tapes in the form of wav or mp3 files. Some of them required me
to return to the boxes in which the tapes were stored and copy them again. The
recordings were very varied. They ranged from a mooching through until a tune
arrived to a fully formed song.
Once they had been placed
in a folder on my computer I converted all of them to mp3s as a preliminary to bringing
the volume of each one to a similar level. I used software to do this to avoid
the task of changing each one individually. I then saved them all onto a DVD
and gave them the title, as indicated above, OLD GOES at writing songs.
The plan is now to sort
them out into three main categories.There may be one or two which are complete
enough to be sent into Cava with a request to Geoff Allan to improve the sound
and quality. There are a few which I would like to record again and in the
third lot there may be material which will prompt further action - but of a kind
which has not yet been identified.
Re THE FLUKE
To accompany the above
text I was looking for a photograph of what I looked like when I first began
writing songs and found this one. As it in no way resembles what I look like
now (and rather obviously I wish I did) I thought I should give it a suitable
title.
A further thought is that the
end result may be a selection of songs for a CD with the title THE FLUKE and THE OLD GOES
