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TALKIN’ BOUT HIS GENERATION
I was 16 when I got my first guitar. My brother was 14 and got a drum kit. Every time we watched Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! on VHS we’d be inspired to go make a noise. Actually seeing it being done was rare, as there was no MTV yet, in our house at least. We used to record stuff to a mono cassette deck. To ‘overdub’ we’d play that recording in the room and play something else over it and record that onto a second tape deck! No such recording has survived, nor has the tape deck, but you can imagine how good it sounded… Over the years I have had a few recording devices, but never managed to record music without going to a studio with whatever band I was in at the time.
Fast-forward nearly 30 years and my 14-year-old son has YouTube for infinite inspiration, is at Grade 6 on guitar, owns a bass guitar, plus
