JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Songwriter Message Forum USING TAPE RECORDERS FOR SONG IDEAS.......

You better believe I use the little cassete recorder and tape, used it yesterday...

Nothing is easier cheaper or faster, the batteries last a long time and you can take it anywhere... One thing that helps is shorter length tapes, faster to find stuff.

The when you get some time you can dump stuff on to a CD. Which will eventually skip all over the place, jam and go DAAAAAAA- DAAAAAA and also read ERROR in some CD player. Like your car lol....

Q- Do you know what digital devices to your songs and song ideas?
A- Lose them! I have lost countless stuff now. Just tonight 4 songs from a band I recorded are GONE! No explaination. That is gonna hurt me badly, very badly!

I have never ever ever never lost a song put to tape, and the casettes I have from 30 + years ago work exactly the same as then.

I remember years ago we were at a studio and my friend and I were taking someone importants phone number down. I took out my little black note book & he whipped out his brand new fancy Palm Pilot with the fancy stick pen attachement.
He laughed at me.... and gave me the lecture.

Then he later had to call me for that guys phone number... I laughed at him, the last laugh, I STILL have that number his Palm Pilot has been in the dump for years.

Don't make a big deal (technical wise or not) to do something simple.

Ah, Oh yeah yes i still use casette tapes to throw ideas down