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This album was recorded on an 8 track reel-to-reel which was another great leap forward in technology for me, having done most of my previous recordings on multi-track cassette recorders. I began recording this album in my apartment in Cambridge, MA and finished recording it after I moved to Santa Cruz, CA. The drums were recorded at a small recording studio in New York City. This album was first released on mp3.com under the band name "Opia" in 2000 and was fairly successful with more than 40,000 song downloads. I re-released it under my own name in 2004. It is available for purchase at a variety of locations both in Compact Disc format and as downloadable audio tracks.

 

Head was the original name of the band I was in at college (MIT). After a while, we decided to change it to Hyperopia (which means farsighted) and then just Opia. Several of the songs I wrote with my friend Alex (who played bass) ended up on the "Welcome To My Head" album, but the few that didn't make the cut are included here.

 

These songs were recorded for the most part on a four-track cassette recorder (Tascam 244) while I was in college. At this point, I was finally starting to realize my psychedelic musical vision and the sounds I was creating began to more closely approximate the sounds in my head - it's noisy in there! The drums on several of these tracks were played by a great drummer, Jeff Cordero, who was only fourteen at the time. Sadly, he died in July of 2004 at the age of 34 - RIP.

 

Written, Produced and Performed by Skip Regan (S) and Rich Lamb (R) - except cello on SMU by Jackie Hunt

At the beginning of 1983, I took a year off from college. During that time, I studied audio recording, hitch-hiked across the country and recorded this album with my friend, Rich Lamb. It was recorded on a four-track cassette recorder (Tascam 244) which was a big step up from the two-track recorder I was using up until then (see below). Once we filled up four tracks, we would usually mix them down to stereo and then put those two tracks (left and right) back onto the four track and add another two tracks. We did this twice for most of these songs so we would end up laying down eight tracks (Talking 'bout Third Generation). The title of the album came from a compromise: I wanted to call the album "Goodmorning Mr. Torch" and Rich was holding out for "Listen: She Forgot"

 

This was the band I was in during my senior year in high school. We never actually made an album, but we did have a few original songs that we performed at parties and concerts. The quality is not great since they were recorded on boom boxes.

 

These songs are from the flip side of the high school song collection cassette (see below). The title, "Man of a Thousand Pockets" was from an offhand comment made by a friend in reference to the tuxedo I wore to my high school prom.

 

The songs on this album are from my very first collection of recordings that I did back in highschool. My parents had a Marantz Reel-to-reel tape recorder that allowed you to record on the left and right tracks separately, so I was able to use it as a two-track recorder. As I finished recording each song, I added it to the cassette you see pictured here. The title, "Fun in the Bedroom" was suggested by my high school girlfriend and referred to the fact that I recorded all these songs in my bedroom.

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