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Hi.

My Dad was into home recording. I've got a reel somewhere with me at about age 3 telling some pretty stupid little kid jokes in a strange little kid voice. I got my first tape recorder when I was about 10 -- it wasn't really a toy but it wasn't made for music, either -- sort of like a dictaphone. I just goofed around with it, recording myself and my friends telling stories.

When I got a little older and Dad wasn't using the reel x reel machine anymore, I discovered you could get these live Grateful Dead recordings and so I used it for that for awhile, and did some of that sort of "field recording" as a hippie chick back in the 70s, sneaking gear into shows and recording on the sly.

But it wasn't until the last few years that I've gotten back into it in a big way, because I suddenly find myself in a band and writing music and we want to get it down on tape/disc. So my first real, purposeful multitrack recordings are only about two years old.

It started innocently enough, digging out the old Sony D5 to record rehearsals. Then we wanted to make a demo. Someone had to learn how to do it, and I was drafted. I started buying stuff, just enough to make a good demo. But of course, I couldn't stop there. I had to have more and better stuff. And we weren't just making a demo, we wanted a whole album! Well, that takes more stuff, see .... before you know it, I was spending more than I could possibly ever recoup. But it was okay, it was my "hobby" and people spend money on that, right??? I could be into golf, you know, take golf vacations or something. But I don't. So it's okay.

But still I wasn't satisfied. I even started hanging out audio forums on the internet, to engage in enabling with other slutz! It's like a drug, and soon I had to become a "pusher", doing demos and EPs for other people, other bands. It's horrible, I tells ya!! Kids, don't start!