Before youtube

I don’t know about your youthful exploits, but for me, the guitar and bass guitar were kind of a hobby. I made a few bucks here and there, including in Japan, where us white dudes stood out from the crowd.

But one gets older, and one regards one’s previous shenanigans in new lights, so to speak.

It’s been so long since I picked up a guitar that maybe a hair or two has gone grey, but when I listen to it it just blows me away that my younger self could have done that. Not just played it it, but invented it.

I’m not trying to brag. I just can’t figure out how my younger self actually managed to do all this shit. Christ, when I consider the mechanics of not only composing this stuff, but then dutifully recording it extremely laboriously on four-track magnetic tape, I might be forgiven for bowing down in worship mode to what I actually achieved. You can go on youtube and see Korean guitar gods but I was doing this in 1979.

I am officially in awe of my younger incarnation. How many people can say that?