I have to share this..
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 10:48 am
Here's the background...I have gotten to know musician/producer/all-around good guy Michael Carpenter over the last few years through Facebook and e-mails. You've seen him pop up frequently on my year-end favorites lists, if you've read them, quite often. On Sunday I sent him a recording I had made years ago, circa 1988, long after my days singing in a band, when I was working in radio. One night, after my on air shift and commercial making were through, I went into the production studio and started playing around with a couple of tape machines, just seeing what I could come up with. One of the more successful results was Buddy Holly's "Rave On". I always thought it came out pretty well. Anyway, I ran across the tape a couple of months ago and converted the stuff on it to mp3s. I shared "Rave On" with MC on Sunday just to show that at one time I had a passable voice. I was totally shocked when I found an e-mail waiting for me yesterday with the item below. Incredible. All of the instruments are him, all the voices are me. Had to share with you folks 'cuz I am so jazzed by this. Why, I almost sound like a pro!
EDIT: OK let's try this again. I uploaded it to Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/thomas-bonafede-1/rave-on-2020
I'll push my luck with this and post this as well. Another "gem" that was unearthed recently by our old bass player. It's from a gig we played about a month and a half into our existence with the final lineup, a folk/rock festival at the college I had recently graduated from. From September of 1979. It's a VERY crude recording, but it's enough to demonstrate what a tight little band I was lucky enough to front for a few years...
https://soundcloud.com/thomas-bonafede- ... t-i-needed
EDIT: OK let's try this again. I uploaded it to Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/thomas-bonafede-1/rave-on-2020
I'll push my luck with this and post this as well. Another "gem" that was unearthed recently by our old bass player. It's from a gig we played about a month and a half into our existence with the final lineup, a folk/rock festival at the college I had recently graduated from. From September of 1979. It's a VERY crude recording, but it's enough to demonstrate what a tight little band I was lucky enough to front for a few years...
https://soundcloud.com/thomas-bonafede- ... t-i-needed