2000: The Recording Bug

The old guys and their respective families spend the February half-term together in a big house on the Devon/Cornwall border and bring their guitars. G also has with him a 4 track Tascam Portastudio he bought second hand from his daughter's (soon to be) ex-boyfriend. There is no serious attempt by the old guys to record anything for posterity; but the seed is sown.

A decides it would be a lot of fun to convert the back bedroom at home into a recording studio. In March he takes delivery of an 8 track Tascam Portastudio 424 Mk2. The next few months are spent learning how to use the gear and bounce tracks.

In December for the first and [to date] the last time all four Shed Heads are in the same room at a recording session. They put down a backing track of a K original, provisionally titled "A Fool and His Money". The tracks have never seen the light of day and the tape remains in a drawer somewhere.

Backing tracks for various Shed Head songs are recorded on the Tascam by A and the respective writers during the course of 2001 and 2002. A decides to go digital and in December, Santa Claus leaves him a Yamaha AW 16G Work Station under the Christmas tree.

This equipment ( see pic) is used to record all twelve songs that eventually appear as Shed Heads' debut album "Back In The Shed". This gear also goes mobile when in November 2005 it is used to record a demo EP for Kickin' Pigeons in K's garage.

In February 2006, A upgrades the studio one more time and buys an Apple Mac with Pro-Logic 7 software. www.apple.com/logicpro