I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
I really think it's just the people you put around you. For instance, you mentioned "Kiss Goodbye," that was a song that was brought to me by Dan Couch and Dale Oliver. They had already started writing it without. They had put together this whole demo of music with no lyrics.
At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.
I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.
If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
In a landscape where a 2. 8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.
If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.
I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.
. . . Had dreams of fancy cars and limos, And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo.
In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.
When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.
Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours
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If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.
