no drugs no music - 1977

bud

Genre: Lo-fi

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Analogapalooza entry #1 (if I have enough guts after this to enter another).

Recorded solo in my apartment on St. Mark's Place in NY's East Village 1977 (across the street from the picture above. Live to stereo cassette in my apartment. Sony TCD5M portable cassette deck and two Sony ECM 220 mics. Sekova crappy Japanese hollow body electric guitar and Silvertone amp - both from 1967.

I think I was trying to be Patti Smith. Thanks to the VMF for giving me this opportunity to air my dirty laundry. Nothing was done to clean up this track.

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Uploaded: Jul 30, 2007 - 04:35:56 PM
Last Updated: Jul 30, 2007 - 04:35:56 PM Last Played: Nov 09, 2009 - 12:16:47 AM

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drugs (43), music (218), sex (78), album (14), new york city (4), rock and roll (16)

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five_extra_arms	five_extra_arms said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Drugs Music and Sex? Nice blast fro the past. Wow, I really love hearing what you were doing before people were doing this kinda stuff! I guess the Violent Femmes were listening to you, because they stole your sound! Great stuff bud! A little Lou Reed-ish too. I hope you post some more. Man, I wish I lived down the street from you. Check out my latest song called Paper Sack

bud

bud said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)

Hey Bob - diggin' the scene?
You campin' or crashin' in your car? I heard this killer spandex band over on stage three - trippin time warp man.

I seriously appreciate you commenting on this tune here - it's the earliest thing I could find that wasn't a cover. Violent Femmes? - didn't think about that. Thanks.

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"music is a better noise" - Essential Logic

Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

lengold	lengold said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Love it Bob - especially the screams at the end. Great stuff. Cheers Len Check out my latest song called Dodgy Doughnut

lengold	lengold said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Sorry Bud Obviously meant Bud - was looking at Bobs' pic. Cheers Len --- lengold is the new pianoman1 Check out my latest song called Dodgy Doughnut

bud	bud said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Thanks Len - I was tryin to be cool with the screamin' bit. You know - all my pain at 23. Oh - the no sex part was not by choice. Glad you stopped by. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

	said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Ol`time 17 years old and ROCK was all I listen on that time. Great post thanks, Bud. Take care --- Kenta

bud	bud said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Thanks for stopping by Kenta I really enjoyed your Minstrel Boy entry. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

ktb	ktb said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	street cred Bud, you have it goin on. No drugs, but the music is loud and clear. Cool lyrics and a raw soulful performance. You put yourself out there. Silvertone amps rule... still got that one? I bet its worth money now!! Check out my latest song called off the deck (w/Z293)

bud	bud said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Unfortunately the Silvertone is gone so is the guitar - it was really lousy to begin with. I got it when I sat on my clarinet and broke it when I was twelve. Thanks for stopping by. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

Vic Holman	Vic Holman said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	when crappy japanese guitars where all that we could afford. I think the strings on mine where a good 3/4 of a inch off the fretboard. Cool to be getting a glimps into everyones past Check out my latest song called One Step Over The Line

bud	bud said 832 days ago (July 30th, 2007)
	Glad you stopped by Vic I actually feel kind of naked with this tune out there. Not that the two thoughts are connected. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

DWL	DWL said 832 days ago (July 31st, 2007)
	Raw stuff More than a little of Lou Reed in there. Interesting lyrics and very exposed! Cheers Dick Check out my latest song called Superstar Shangri-La

bud	bud said 832 days ago (July 31st, 2007)
	Exposed - It's laugh or cringe at the past and I prefer to laugh. Hope you did too. Thanks for commenting. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

willnlf	willnlf said 831 days ago (July 31st, 2007)
	Whoa! Add horseshoes and you could have been in Colorado, although the guitar would have been twangier. Check out my latest song called Dream Song

bud

bud said 831 days ago (July 31st, 2007)

As I recall
you had a radio in Colorado - so you never had to get up. Thanks for stopping by - the same tape this is on has us playing a guitar and blues harp duet. Gimme your user name and password and I'll post it on your page for the Analogapalooza festival. You played a mean harp in '77.

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"music is a better noise" - Essential Logic

Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

willnlf	willnlf said 831 days ago (July 31st, 2007)
	Harp and Guitar user name: willnlf password: principal Can't wait to hear it! Check out my latest song called Dream Song

	said 831 days ago (July 31st, 2007)
	YOu go! Bud I'm jealouse what a song, somethings gotta come from this! Almost sounds like you were gonna laugh at times this is classic did your kids hear this! No drugs no music you said a mouth full!

bud

bud said 831 days ago (July 31st, 2007)

Thanks Tim -
Well what came from this was another 15 years or so of dissipation - but that's all in the past.
Interesting you should mention my kids. Dylan's at skateboard camp - but I played it for Stella and her band last night and they flipped and made me burn them copies.
She's got a new band and they're pretty hot. A trio this time. In fact they're downstairs practicing right now.
When you gonna post a golden oldie - I know you got plenty from Donny Fury's studio.

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"music is a better noise" - Essential Logic

Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

	said 831 days ago (August 1st, 2007)
	man memories. i used to hang out at st marks place. in the late eighties there was an amazing Taco place there - i think it was called Taco Loco or something along those lines. we'd drive in from NJ just for the tacos. Im gonna be in the village tomorrow. maybe ill see your old apartment? Thanks for this. - CF

bud	bud said 831 days ago (August 1st, 2007)
	There's still a Taco Loco down on 2nd Ave. I appreciate you stopping by and taking the time to comment. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

echoroom	echoroom said 831 days ago (August 1st, 2007)
	From garageland to garageband Bud- what a gem, man, you can smell your apartment on this track! Great vocal .. the track sounds like a more desperate, youthful howl at 'knocking on heavens door'. If you told me you wrote it yesterday, I'd still love it. Great track..... more please. Steve Check out my latest song called Deeper (w/t Racerat)

bud	bud said 830 days ago (August 2nd, 2007)
	And what does it smell like? Thanks for your kind support Steve. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

Dj French Toast	Dj French Toast said 830 days ago (August 2nd, 2007)
	Punk rock Dude ...yeah your frickin punk rock ,man . I really love this song Bud . Its like looking at a song picture from the past . I wasnt even born for another year when you made this . Ahhhh Im really digin this Lo Fi contest deal. Downloaded . Check out my latest song called Its The French Toast(Colab W/WillBill808)

bud	bud said 830 days ago (August 2nd, 2007)
	Thanks for digging this ditty Benny 77 was very interesting year in NYC. Blackout, Son of Sam, CBGB's, The Bronx are Burning, cheap rents, cops with long hair and mustaches, full car graffitti, sleazy Times Square ... I could go on and on. The whole place was punk rock. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

JOAN	JOAN said 830 days ago (August 2nd, 2007)
	!!! cool musty old tune... what a great time it was!!!! Check out my latest song called MUD

bud	bud said 830 days ago (August 2nd, 2007)
	Relive the year on August 11th! That's when VH1 will air the documentary NY77 The Coolest Year In Hell that i shot this winter and spring. It was directed by Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein who made The Kid Stays In The Picture - a good doc about the producer Robert Evans. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

	said 829 days ago (August 3rd, 2007)
	To paraphrase Fat Freddy "Drugs, Music and Sex will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no Drugs, Music and Sex." But more to the point, not only am I jealous of the song, I'm jealous you still have the TAPES.

bud	bud said 829 days ago (August 3rd, 2007)
	Wise words indeed now I've learned to get by music only when necessary. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 827 days ago (August 4th, 2007)
	gets right to the point in the 70's i couldn't get enough music (or those other things either!) now i feel like i'm drowning in music: processed, packaged, & promoted. god, i miss the 70's. thanks for the memories Check out my latest song called Settle

bud	bud said 826 days ago (August 6th, 2007)
	Getting right to the point was my blessing and my curse i those days. I wore my heart on my sleeve - which can be a bit painful at times. Thanks for commenting. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

*itiswotitis*	*itiswotitis* said 827 days ago (August 5th, 2007)
	ONe side of the record that really dates it .. LOVE LOVE LOVE THE LYRIX!! THIS REALLY MADE ME SMILE!!!!! DRUGSEXMUSICDRUGMUSICDRUGSEXMUSICDRUGMUSICDRUGSEX MUSIC YEAH RIGHT ON! Check out my latest song called WALKING BASS IN THE CLOUDS

bud	bud said 826 days ago (August 6th, 2007)
	Keep smiling - and check out the rest of the VMF entries. There's a lot of cool music there. Glad you stopped by. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

said 826 days ago (August 6th, 2007)

What SmokeyVW said
bangs home. Music is PRODUCT now, audio Velveeta (does that stuff still exist?) that has absolutely nothing of the human need to create (or listen to) music.

Funny, we might want to hide our 'vintage' tunes thinking they're embarrassing, but isn't it amazing how we can hear the fire and love for music in them? Bad singing, clumsy guitar chords, tape hiss, it's all there but they fade from importance as the decades pass and we can hear the sheer excitement at actually being musicians! I'm in your apartment here, cold beer in hand, and grinning like I've come home to a long-lost place I used to know so well.

bud

bud said 826 days ago (August 6th, 2007)

There's still plenty of good music being
made by driven young musicians - you just gotta dig deeper. True that the cream at the top of the charts is pretty soulless product, but if MJ is any indication the love of music is alive and healthy.
Micael2 posted a pretty good list of music worth hearing in the forum recently.
Thanks for stopping by my sixth floor walk-up - and good catch when I threw the key out the widow wrapped in a sock. Thanks for bringing the beer too.

---
"music is a better noise" - Essential Logic

Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

Tiny_Man_Inside	Tiny_Man_Inside said 826 days ago (August 6th, 2007)
	lo fi but in a good way :) Check out my latest song called Left to Swing (w/ The Composer)

bud	bud said 825 days ago (August 6th, 2007)
	Thanks TMI I'm a lo-f fan. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

racerat	racerat said 824 days ago (August 8th, 2007)
	control "Music is as necessary to me as drugs and sex." -bud Hmmm where'd you get the nickname? Definately Femmes and Jonathan Richmond, pre- Richmond era. Cool. Check out my latest song called Frank's Song

bud	bud said 824 days ago (August 8th, 2007)
	I got the nickname from my wife after the Sean Penn character's line in Fast Times at Ridgemount High - "Hey Bud, let's party!" Close enough I guess. Thnaks for stopping by - I really enjoyed your entries. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

guitapick	guitapick said 823 days ago (August 9th, 2007)
	Ahhhh... ...those days/nights/weeks/months without sex... ...this is a quintessential East Village tune from the '70s, man. Really happy to hear this, Bud. Check out my latest song called Outside the Corral

bud	bud said 815 days ago (August 17th, 2007)
	Thanks for the entusiastic support I'm digging the Analogapalooza time machine too. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

william devine	william devine said 815 days ago (August 17th, 2007)
	yea w/o sex w/o drugs we wouldn't be , you see its the chicken or the egg you got me crazy man its like a contact thing you know just beig in the room thanks for the buzz this was cool Check out my latest song called Easy Song

bud	bud said 815 days ago (August 17th, 2007)
	Glad you stopped by music is my drug of choice these days. --- "music is a better noise" - Essential Logic Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

	said 791 days ago (September 9th, 2007)
	I used to live a terrific life in a student dorm And we smoked ahum, drank scuse me and slept a hole through the day. I love the tapefeel and the honesty. Not really a modern daychart climber, but I found a memory-treasure nonetheless. Hihihihi, the end is cool. Cheers bro!

bud	bud said 791 days ago (September 9th, 2007)
	Seems we've all had "those days" thanks for dropping by and commenting - it means a lot. Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

Schello	Schello said 770 days ago (September 30th, 2007)
	;-) Ahh oki, then this dedicated to me =) lol GREAT Mr. Bud!!!!! Now in the East Village who live? Im not sexual man =) ------------------ Schello Check out my latest song called Snozz'en (Cronik Mix)

Heightened	Heightened said 712 days ago (November 27th, 2007)
	no drugs no music sublimely simple - sublimely brilliant! Check out my latest song called A Journey Through Starburst Galaxy M82

bud	bud said 710 days ago (November 29th, 2007)
	Thanks man I can't keep up with your comments. I don't know what to say. Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

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