My life on cassette part 1

This summer has been full of activity for the Cole household. Our 18-year-old, Louis, went off to enlist in the army a month after his 18th birthday. At the same time, our 15-year-old Henry had a major upper/ lower jaw surgery to correct his narrow air passage. Serious stuff. Right after that, we started cleaning the house madly because Tina's mom is moving in(has moved in now.) This necessitated cleaning the garage, and you can guess who had the most crap in the garage- me. My most precious objects of my life are my crates of cassettes. I've been taping every music project I've ever had since age 12. There are crappy cassettes from 1983 of me and my friend Bar (and Chris and Michael too) when I could barely strum on a honky guitar and Bar had a drum set made out of Tupperware, a wastebasket kick drum with a beater made out of a wooden spoon taped to an old shoe. We used an ancient cello for a bass and had a toy piano. These recordings are rough but inspired. Seriously weird, we put the Butthole Surfers to shame. To free up space in my life, and to do my pre--death cleaning, I started sorting through my tapes, throwing away the ones that are unlistenable, and transferring anything that might be savable. I've kept all my most important four track Master tapes but I let a lot of stuff go- untold band practices. they never need to be heard by anyone ever again. I also found a lot of gems. this post I have a few tracks: Salmon Suzy Proton comes from a poem I wrote in 1983 with my brother, Monty, later put to music with Bar on tupperware drums and bass and guitar played (badly) by me, recorded on 2 boomboxes, pre- 4 track; next is the demo version of a song I wrote called Working Class Losers from September 2001 and also two acoustic living room jams that I did with Dan Jones in spring of 2001. The early 2000s was a very creative time for me, just coming off of a divorce and having a lot of time to myself to think about my life and work on songwriting while raising my son Cosmo on the weekends. I don't think I've ever worked on songs as hard since.

Ed Cole · Salmon Suzy Proton

Ed Cole · Working Class Losers original 2001

Ed Cole · Living room jams 2001