The Drive Home: Early Recordings
Posted on 29. Aug, 2009 by Corey Hartford in Media, Music and Recordings
Funk … I love it. You know, all that “bow-chicka-wow-wow” goodness – yeah, that’s the good stuff.
Like 13.2 million other fourteen year old boys, Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin fame) inspired me to pick up my very first guitar. However, it was funk – with its tasty syncopated licks and righteous ‘wah’ action – that really managed to keep those strings firmly locked between my ever-growing hands. For me, nothing was ever “nasty” enough, ya dig? Heck, I even managed to get our high school Jazz Band a reputation for bringing the funk in large doses. Same thing for my school’s gospel choir (I know what you’re thinking here: public school + gospel choir = ??).
The following tune does a fine job expressing my early love for the art of simple-yet-nasty, lick-filled aural landscapes. This song, and the many others on my computer that share its characteristics, laid forth the groundwork for what would become one of my proudest achievements – the sonically-mindblowing, college-era band Phunk and Associates. (those recordings – highly anticipated by our most excellent fans – are soon to come 
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Age Recorded: 17
Axe of Choice: Self-constructed, completely bastardized Warmoth Strat copy- aka “Cassie”
Captured by: Shure, Beyerdynamic
Production: All instruments written, performed, recorded and mixed by Corey Hartford
Area of Interest: Subtle solo leading to 80′s-metal-inspired breakdown @ 2:00, dirty mid-filled solo leading to seven-layer guitar ending @ 2:45
Title: The Drive Home
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