Was cleaning out my parent's basement in Phoenix last weekend and found an old cassette labeled "Blind Mellotron" with like 4 songs on it. Me and my buddy recorded it in his garage back in 97 and we totally invented this whole backstory about how the band broke up after a fight over a stolen reverb pedal. It's hilarious how seriously we took it. Has anyone else stumbled across old fake band stuff they forgot about?
I was flipping through vinyl at this place in Austin last weekend, and some dude was explaining how a fake 70s funk band called "The Moisture Wicks" had a whole backstory about a studio fire that destroyed their master tapes. He even showed me a bootleg cassette he claimed was a live recording from 1978. It made me realize how deep people will go for a fake band lore, and now I kind of respect the effort more than I used to think it was just silly. Has anyone else run into a fan-made legend that sounded too real?
I was reading the fake bio for "Gravel Milk" and noticed their drummer's "studio death" in 1995 was listed as a car crash, a heroin OD, and a studio fire depending on which version you scrolled to, has anyone else caught contradictions like that in the lore?
Had to track vocals by candlelight and use a generator that kept cutting out every 47 minutes, but somehow the blown fuse hum on track 4 ended up sounding like a vintage synth and now I'm afraid to ever record with proper electricity again, has anyone else accidentally made their best work because everything went wrong?
I was playing a small show in Denver last February and an older drummer I'd never met came up after our set and said 'man your bass sounds like a wet cardboard box'. He was not trying to be mean, just honest. I swapped my flats for roundwounds and tweaked the EQ on my amp and now it actually cuts through the mix. Has anyone else gotten a critique that totally changed how you set up your gear?