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Where was I at the beginning of it all? The era of direct to analog? Sample to Sequence to Four Track... Staring at a catalog for a Fairlight... I Bombed into the studio running With barely a wit about me Just knowing that I could do it I could be my own Peter Gabriel. How could Paula in homeroom know she'd changed my life By showing me the album cover for Depeche Mode 101 the one I'd kept seeing on Hyla's shirt As he walked down the hallway with Severely Spiked Hair. Multi-Channel Sequencing Multiple Instruments 32 channels of bliss In a four walled dirty white room With posters on the ceiling.

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  • Where was I at the beginning of it all? The era of direct to analog? Sample to Sequence to Four Track... Staring at a catalog for a Fairlight... I Bombed into the studio running With barely a wit about me Just knowing that I could do it I could be my own Peter Gabriel. How could Paula in homeroom know she'd changed my life By showing me the album cover for Depeche Mode 101 the one I'd kept seeing on Hyla's shirt As he walked down the hallway with Severely Spiked Hair. Multi-Channel Sequencing Multiple Instruments 32 channels of bliss In a four walled dirty white room With posters on the ceiling.
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  • Where was I at the beginning of it all? The era of direct to analog? Sample to Sequence to Four Track... Staring at a catalog for a Fairlight... I Bombed into the studio running With barely a wit about me Just knowing that I could do it I could be my own Peter Gabriel. How could Paula in homeroom know she'd changed my life By showing me the album cover for Depeche Mode 101 the one I'd kept seeing on Hyla's shirt As he walked down the hallway with Severely Spiked Hair. Two weeks and I was figuring out the ESQ-1 Popping beats out on the TR-404. Four weeks and I was setting MIDI channels and linking up to the ROLAND S10. Multi-Channel Sequencing Multiple Instruments 32 channels of bliss In a four walled dirty white room With posters on the ceiling. I locked myself in for study hall And came out with a disk full of composition Suddenly there was a new toy in my own room The Ensoniq Performance Sampler. And at the end of the year My "Guitar Trio in C Harmonic Minor" Came out on 100 cassettes Along with Pasquintino's "Mary Had a Little Scarecrow" And so many others that the titles are a blur. The Auditorium blacked out during the 1989 Homecoming Rally And Sal danced in an Indian Headdress Made of Construction paper feathers While the band played. Traine with his Guitar and Pedals Udy with the Sequencers and Drum Machines And Bernie masterfully fingering the black and white plastic whipped us all into a frenzy. The three of them won a Casio synth and several other instruments for the workshop After a battle of electronica in New York City. We had some fun at Christmas that year in The Wintergarden Playing our Multi-Layered tunes for A small but possibly international audience that included TJ Insana who would later become Jesus At least for 3 shows. I started getting Rob Into it and by 1990 he had an Ensoniq board too And we slammed some tracks together for Class Day and snapped sticks against drumpads to trigger Orchastra Hits. Rob went into the Marines and By College I was striking my own keys. But those stories are for prose And for what you can find from the music Because the music is really all there is The rest is just settings for cracked actors And the life of the sound Comes from the people who craft it Even if they are only somewhat famous children in a world that only sees through cathode ray static.
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