Recording Criminals
& Sinners with Mark Lindquist was a great
education for me, I'd been intimidated by the recording process and all
it's mysteries up til then, I'd been intimidated by the people who
apparently ran the business of recording musicians, up until that point
I'd felt very much like a bystander in the music world and I'd decided
that I'd rather stay outside than have to conform. Aside from that, the
music that I loved listening to was by and large field recordings made
in the 40's and 50's of itinerant preachers and blues guitarists and
chain gangs and cowboys and the music produced in studios never sounded
like that, so I figured I'd just play and not record. But then I met
Mark, a definite anarchist when it came to recording technique, and the
founder of a legendary local record label called "Shaky Ray" and we set
up a couple beat up microphones in the basement and played a show for
his tape machine. There was about 30 minutes left on a reel borrowed
from a local punk band for us to use for the entire record and we
finished our last song just as the last bit of usable tape traveled
past the head. And it dawned on me, this doesn't have to be for the
ages just because it's recorded, it can be for right now, live, lo-fi,
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