“30 Jahre Masters of Reality” Tim Harrington Artikel © Masters of Reality.de 2011 Photos: Tim Harrington
Tim Harrington: CHAPTER 1: So... we had been jamming early on first with a “Rhythm Ace” drum machine I had borrowed from my friend Patrick Desalvo [who plays now with Savoy Brown] and then with a Korg unit I bought. These were primitive preset units but they gave you the hypnotic repetition to work a riff or jam as it were. At this point we loosely called it the “Manson Family”. We never actually performed under that flag though... We were tinkering and experimenting with home-made recording mainly because we didn’t have resources or the inclination to go to a proper studio. Sort of punk rock.
Then we played the tape back through the amp on another deck and “over-dubbed” vocals and guitar or more synths or whatever. This eventually led to the first “songs” that would be our first recording...
CHAPTER 2: He did the “I am a D.J. I am what I play BEEP BEEP” routine and I was in an endless blur of stupid cover bands to make some money. Mangling vapid dance music. We jammed in an old union hall with a hydraulic elevator. It housed a Hammond organ repair shop. The shirt-lifting proprietor of the joint creeped me out with his lisping and leering.
I can’t remember if we split the cost of the cassettes or I paid. We had I think fifty. Hand made. Blank tapes were about ten for ten or twelve. We sold them for four dollars a piece. C. Unbeknownst 2011 LINKS: CREEPJOINT, MYSPACE und FACEBOOK
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