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Everybody Jam (Jamming Will Make You Feel Better)
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HERE WE GO-- the very FIRST SONG (well, the EARLIEST Song) that I have recorded, wayyyyyyyyy back in MARCH, 1982!!! From the soon-to-be-posted 'FUNKENDECTOMY' album!!
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
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R&B • Funk
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Lawrence Wise
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1982, 2007
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April 10, 2007
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MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 4:37
Story behind the song
On the (soon-to-be-posted) "FUNKENDECTOMY" Album, "Everybody Jam (Jamming Will Make You Feel Better)" is actually the FIFTH Track on the album, and the second cut on Side Two of the original cassette-album. BUT------ this was the VERY FIRST SONG RECORDED in the "FUNKENDECTOMY" sessions (March, 1982). This edited version (yup, this IS an 'edit') was also the FIRST SINGLE from that cassette album, preceding the full album by 2 1/2 weeks. The original cassette also had a B-Side that was an entire world away from the the A-Side--- a B-SIDE which became a 'neighborhood legend'. Also, you can hear the roots of what would become 'OSMOSIS' on that B-SIDE.......almost 8 years before the FIRST 'OSMOSIS' Single. Back to "Everybody Jam": it was recorded in my bedroom on a Saturday afternoon in March of '82, with just a (pawnshop)Bass Guitar, the Casio MT-68 (supplying the percussion), a cheap microphone on a 'music stand'--no, REALLY!!--and a massive, 4-speaker 200-watt, 1971 Bass Guitar Amp (I STILL Have It!!!)------ all of it being shot across the room--LIVE!--into a flat, tabletop dictation tape-recorder (that 'RadioShack CONCERTMATE' recorder mentioned in an earlier essay ^_^). From there, I ran it back (thru that SANYO Stereo Reciever/Dual-Cassette Deck, also mentioned in an earlier essay)to put down the KEYBOARD layer (the Casio MT-68, on 'accordian' mode--not 'pipe organ', as with the later keyboards!), then ran it back one final time to put down the 'Horns' (the Casio MT-68 again). Finally, I transfered it to the master-cassette album, which rendered the whole project into mono. And, as the 18-year-old-going-on-19-year-old fool I was at the time, I wound up eventually erasing that 'divided-track' master cassette (around late '83!!), leaving only the Cassette-Album as the 'new Master'. After doing the same thing TWICE MORE between '82 and '84, I learned to HOLD ONTO my 'mix-masters'. And, I haven't looked back since. BUT, looking back on the "FUNKENDECTOMY" tracks and album cassette, I'm amazed; compared to EVERYTHING that came AFTER it, "FUNKENDECTOMY" is as close as I could get to a 'progressive R-n-B' album. Let "Everybody Jam" whet your appetite for the REST of the album.
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Everybody Jam-- Jamming Will Make You Feel Better (ad nauseum) -Lawrence Wise (c)1982 NorthWest Funk Music, Inc./Cosmic Funk Music, Ltd. --All Rights Reserved--
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