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On Recording

In the early 1970′s “lay people.” or ordinary musicians began to record music. The reason they never recorded earlier was that the recording business was the domain of the record companies and ordinary people never got near one. However, that said, radio stations recorded their fair share of musicians, especially the big ones, because they [...]

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Piano Bar Primer – Part VII – You-Tube

In a previous blog I gave you a chilling account on how we used to learn songs before the advent of the tape machine. We would dump a couple of quarters in the jukebox and play the same song 6 times. Then, we would compare notes and fill in the blanks with whatever we thought [...]

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