Since we’re not headlining this could have been one of the Slaughtermen’s first ever shows I think
month of 2025. It’s gone very quickly. I didn’t go anywhere out of the country this year as far as I know. It seemed to be January one day and now it’s December. I don’t know what really happened in between the two months. Lots of things that I was too busy to remember. On Saturday I found an old Slaughtermen recording. It is the original one recorded in the very early days of The Rising Sun Hotel when the band started out with a Friday night residency and there were two people and a dog in attendance. A few month later and people were lining up in the street to see the band.
Now thanks to AI I can seperate all the instruments from the one single track and remix and remaster the whole thing like it was a multi track recording. This is very exciting because it’s like excavating a fossil that has been buried for centuries and being able to pull it apart and reassemble it as it looked like when it was alive. This may take a while, but I think the results are going to be amazing. I’ll eventually post it here, probably around Christmas time if it all goes well.
Live at the Tote.
Tuesday’s band practice might be called off this week because we’re about to get a dumping of snow. It was bound to happen eventually, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. I do have the snow blower ready to go, however. Since nothing much is happening in the news, I’m not gonna talk about it.
The Slaughtermen recording is interesting because there is a harmonica player on a couple of the tracks. Some of the songs we used to play in the early days have been captured on here before they disappeared for good. Songs like “Lonely Teardrops” and “Lost Highway” didn’t last. Nor did “She” which was a Gram Parsons song, and one I quite liked. I don’t know why we stopped playing it, it’s a good song. There were a couple of others, but maybe they didn’t make it to the recording.
The recording itself was made with a PCM interface which recorded everything as a stereo mix from the desk digitally to a VHS tape. This was quite a breakthrough at the time. I had to buy a used PCM interface a couple of years ago so that I could transfer the whole thing. PCM/videoptape recording went out of favor after a couple of years, but it was a great way to make a good quality record of a live show without having to revert to cassettes which was about the only way you could do it unless you had the Stones mobile studio at your disposal.
Good Day
What a crew..