ANNOUNCE: The Show Must Go On

Actually, I can go back even further! I once made a Sweet "mega-mix" in the 1970s (showing my age!), using my Dad's ITT "music centre" (!), which was comprised of a record deck, cassette deck and tuner. I used the pause button on the cassette deck to stop and start each section of the recording, all done by ear. Obviously, to hear it now would be laughable, but at the time, I thought it sounded great, and I think that's where I got the obsession with creating the 'perfect' edit. I was probably about 12 years old at the time, and clearly remember getting a severe bollocking when one of my cassettes got mangled in the machine! Ahh.... those were the days, when music was REAL, and not created on a bloody computer!

My first mix was accidental -- my tape of Live Killers / A Day at the Races twisted, and so I have about half of Let Me Entertain You running backward, and then one of the crowd whistles fades backward into the opening chord of Tie Your Mother Down (hollywood remix.) I never tried that method again, but maybe I should some day :)

Years later, in college, I found SoundEdit 16 or whatever it was called on the Mac. I then made "I Want It All" in mono with the Rocks (single) version mixed with the Acapella (Miracle) version. After that I tried Save Me / It's a Hard Life which turned out horribly and was deleted.