1st Blood on the 4 Tracks : Sleeping With The Lights On; Plus a Ten Peso Tour

I got excited about putting the Tascam through its paces, that I went ahead and recorded a demo of one of my band's old songs. I did forget to do two things :
     1. Clean the tape heads
     2. Get new blank cassette tapes. This might be a challenge anyway (who else still use them?). I used an old tape, and it shows on the recording -- there is a lot of sound degradation.

"Sleeping With The Lights On" is the title track of our 1996 album. Here's the recorded version http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=357691
(which I now realize is at a break-neck fast tempo)
And here's the 4-track tape demo, which I completed in about two hours
https://soundcloud.com/rommel-carrera/sleeping-4track-demo
Track 1 - sequenced drums, piano, synths, organ, and crunch guitar (played live)
Track 2 - lead vocals
Track 3 - backing vocals and clean guitar
Track 4 - bass

It seems strange dedicating one track to bass, but it seems to be the best way to do four-track. The Beatles did it in both Revolver and Sgt Peppers.

And a little tour of the gears used:
The drums sounds, piano and organ came from an Emu Proteus keyboard (actually an XK1 synth with the techno card replaced by Piano, Organ and Proteus cards). The yellow mustard color helps immensely :

A "techno" synth turned into a roots rock keyboard

The sequencer is an Emu XL7

The guitar is an Epiphone Casino, the Beatles guitar during their most creative period (1966-1969)

And the bass is a hohner headless (shown here with the Steinberger Spirit)

sorry, we both lost our heads!