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- THE STORY OF MY BLUES
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- NO, don`t worry, I`m not going to tell you all of my troubles in detail
- or anything like that. But I AM going to tell a bit about me and how I
- came to start writing music and using Octamed. (Well, it IS my disk, y`know,
- and I can be self-indulgent if I want to!)
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- I loved music from an early age. (I also loved baked beans, but I`m not
- making a disk about that, am I?) When I was in primary school, I used to
- play Chopsticks, and Midnight Sonata non-stop on the piano. I eventually moved
- on to rock and roll (Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, The Beatles) and got
- a mini keyboard for my 12th birthday. Then, I saved up, bought a bigger
- keyboard and started to try to write my own music. And FINALLY, after
- YEARS of pleading, begging, sweat, blood and tears, my parents bought me a
- second hand Amiga A500. I chucked my Commodore 64 out of the window (though
- not literally) and haven`t looked back since. (Well, I have in a physical
- sense, but not a mental one)
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- So, armed with my new Amiga, a cheap midi interface, and a love of rock
- and roll (and baked beans) I delved into the magical world of PD. After
- buying as many trackers as I could (GMC, Sountracker, Noisetracker, Protracker,
- JAMCracker, Zoundmonitor, Startrekker etc) I settled with GMC - the
- Games Music Creator, written by none other than Andreas Tadic (Team 17)
- It was a pretty crap program, but within a few months I had written about 80
- songs.
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- The program wasn`t good enough, though, and I was convinced by the owner
- of NBS to try a new tracker. That`s how I found MED V2.01. My music writing
- got better with my piano playing... Now I`m writing the kind of stuff
- that you`re hearing now, and playing blues on the piano (Memphis Slim,
- Alan Price, Dave Bruebeck... If anyone has heard of those people and like
- them then write to me!)
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- Musically, my life is going pretty well. I`m in a band, I`m in FOP
- with the excellent Chris Wright, (his FOP3, incidently, is being included
- with Octamed V5!), and some of my music is appearing on the MUG disk
- magasine - the brilliant Total Irrelevance (if you haven`t heard of this,
- or haven`t bought one, then I would stongly recommend it!)
- BUT - my music still hasn`t been accepted by any software company, so
- please contact me with any job offers!
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- "That`s all I have to say to you." (Oliver Hardy)
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- I hope that you like the music!
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- Elwood. FOP 1993
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- Bye!