I found a series of demo tapes I didn't remember I made back in the early 90's. Truthfully speaking I forgot I was quite good at one time (when I was playing regularly). All songs were done as a OMB completely by myself. All lead parts are played simultaneously on keyboards DX7, Roland U20, Roland U220, Roland Pro-E....no MIDI files used.....no overdubs or multi-tracking.....everything played live, including vocals. I think I'll post them one by one as I convert from tape to MP3. I'm quite proud of what I used to do back then.

additional songs

additional songs again from old cassette tapes

It’s quite good and interesting! Those tapes, though, didn’t preserve all the data… I guess you have nice demos made after going into digital as well.

Mark, I enjoyed listening to those performances. Sure can hear the difference in recording technology when comparing tapes to the new digital recordings.

All the best,

Gary

Hi Kabinopus...that's the kind of comment I like to hear..."interesting." I also like to think it's interesting what I did, playing two hands against each other and 3-4 parts at the same time.

No...I don't make good demo's at all. I'm better at "live" playing.

Mark

Hi Gary.......thanks for the comment from you also. I'm not sure why no one else commented. A lot of the reason I took the hours to convert from tape to mp3 was to post them to show what can be done as a OMB. Playing multiple parts, two instruments at once, working the fills, breaks, variations, etc, Seems like no one is really interested in new ideas.

I didn't think about it but yes....those tapes are archaic now. Here's one I did direct on the PA3x, I can see the difference! But remember, I just mess around on it once in a while doing single "takes." So, whoever listens to this, overlook the mistakes. Musette music was not meant to be played on a horizontal keyboard.

In my experience it’s quite hard to get any feedback on the internet using only audio tracks. Turns out, videos on YouTube prove to be more efficient. Yet, a real world still seems to be more rewarding. One time I just played the piano just for fun in a coffeehouse (slash bar), went home with decent pocket money. Looks like it’s a human nature that wants everything to be personal, not just content.

Thanks for sharing Mark. Musette sounded good too. It's not easy to share to the world - we are in a minority, ones who can play and have fun. So however the fanfare, so be it. It's all about the personal joy music gives us.

I was about to launch "You Raise Me Up" on the 3X, which is beautiful. The wife intercepted and said "you are no Josh Groban", so I nixed it.

I think you'll find more people will listen to MP3s if you upload them and supply a link, so they don't have to download them to listen?
I'm still in the hospital but I listened to several and they are quite good of course, given the quality of the recordings.
The last few songs I uploaded here got hardly any listens or comments. I guess they all know what I sound like.
Hardly worth going to the trouble of posting. As mentioned, YouTube posts seem to get more traffic.