Yamaha CS80

I was lucky enough to get a bit of that track in the past and I thank Tim for having made it public, a great performance plus the awesome power of the 80 combined=showtime!
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim Siefkes 
  To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:33 AM
  Subject: [yamahacs80] CS80 track uploaded to Soundcloud


  With all the recent activity and new posts of sound files lately, I was 
  inspired to throw one out of my own. This is not a new recording, but 
  something we did back in 1980 when the CS-80 was still fresh and some 
  mates and I were trying to form our "prog rock" band. There were only 
  three of us (we didn't even have a bass player yet), and another friend 
  who was taking a recording engineering class here needed Something to 
  record for a class project. So we eagerly volunteered to be that 
  "Something".

  I remember our studio time was pretty limited and we didn't get endless 
  takes to polish things up, but here's a snapshot of what were doing. We 
  did four songs in that session, and this one is admittedly our most 
  ambitious piece at that time. Prog rock fans will undoubtedly detect our 
  major influences in there... I took all the vocal sections out as they 
  just made the piece much longer and this is about the CS-80, right? Even 
  after editing out the vocals out it's still about eight minutes long, so 
  here is the CS-80 in more of a rock context. We've had so many nice solo 
  tracks lately, I thought I'd put up something a little different. 

  As I said, our studio time was limited and this was on 1" 8-track tape 
  (so you can still hear the tape hiss in spots). We didn't get to do many 
  retakes... so warts and all, this was what we ended up with as our demo.

  http://soundcloud.com/tim_s/m-33-instrumentaledit

  -Tim S.



   

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