Purchase, 1976, Chris Limber and Me (aka Redum and Weap)

 

Rediscovered ancient cassette tape, should be dust but managed to squeeze some bearable audio out of it, though slow.  And we'd been doing some serious drinking.  

When I was in high school, I thought, and everyone who knew me, thought I'd be a musician.  My mother was horrified.  Good.  That's what plans like those are for.  Freak out mama.  Anyway, I spent more time playing my spanking new Guild D-35 than going to class.  I was in a number of bands, played with a number of people, and slowly got better.  I think.

Somehow I got convinced to go to a liberal arts college for a while, and that's how Purchase got me.  And while I was there, music became more like a hobby than the burning passion it had been in high school.  I guess that's what college is for.  Burn that shit out of you.

When I got to Purchase, I played and sang with a number of humanoid entities -- first with Cathy Intartaglia, now Cathy Intartaglia Hirsh, who had a really beautiful voice.  In 1975 (I think) I returned to Purchase after dropping out for a while and living in Minnesota, and I started playing with actor and all-around bon vivant Chris Limber.  We clicked pretty much immediately and played a few coffee houses around campus before we stopped playing, I'm not sure why.

This cassette recording is not notable for its musical quality or beauty or anything like that.  But to me it sounds like we were having fun.  And we were.  And finding that after 33 years is pretty damn cool.