{"id":7900,"date":"2021-04-29T07:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2021-04-29T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:07:07","slug":"a-composers-sketchbook-the-1970s-track-81-ragged-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/a-composers-sketchbook-the-1970s-track-81-ragged-riff\/","title":{"rendered":"A Composer&#8217;s Sketchbook | The 1970s Track 81 | Ragged Riff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"7375\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/composers-sketchbook-track-1-whats-so-wrong-with-suicide\/composers-sketchbook-background\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"580,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Composers Sketchbook Background\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background-300x155.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background.jpg 580w, https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Composers-Sketchbook-Background-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Track-81.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I think I may have these tracks out of order, especially when I come across a piece of junk like this one.  Sure, it&#8217;s a sketchbook and all, but once in a while its less of a riff and more of a train wreck.  And after a run of really good material, having a stretch of painfully awful work just doesn&#8217;t make sense.  There should be some sense of artistic growth.  But there isn&#8217;t &#8211; at leas not with this final set of songs from the second side of the second tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously &#8211; I keep going back to the mp3s that were transferred from the original tapes and were grouped by which tape and which side of the tape.  And also on one tape I identify it audibly as &#8220;Volume Two&#8221; and another as &#8220;Volume Three&#8221; but there is no Volume One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, is something mislabeled, or did I just take a left turn at Albuquerque, artistically speaking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I recently re-discovered the box with all my original tapes as I sort through more than one hundred boxes of mementos and memorabilia I&#8217;ve had in storage for years.  Now, if I could only find my old cassette player.  Guess I probably have to buy a new one and may have to redo all of these transfers too, since the first time I converted them to mp3 I set the bit rate at 56kps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheesh.  At what point do I admit that only a handful of people in the entire parade of human history will ever listen to ANY of these recordings, and even though I still (generally) like the smell of my own crap, there comes a point when the effort to indulge oneself in oneself outweighs the self-stroking benefit by a magnitude of biblical proportions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think I may have these tracks out of order, especially when I come across a piece of junk like this one. Sure, it&#8217;s a sketchbook and all, but once in a while its less of a riff and more of a train wreck. 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