Rummaging through the drawers of Chevy 6

These mp3s of live Chevy 6 @1982 are a real hoot!

Also an homage to TEAC tape recorders

I recently bought a TEAC tape deck on eBay for 150 bucks for the purpose of transcribing old tapes of the band to digital. I have no idea where my original TEAC went. It got lost in the bowels of my old house and has yet to appear. I have cloudy memories of maybe selling it? or letting somebody borrow it? Who knew? Especially since the cassette had made such a bold move on the open-reel crowd with fidelity that rivaled and bettered it.

At any rate, I COULDN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE. So I went on eBay and snagged one. A good one. It's one of the old-school TEACs, but it's auto-reverse (big whoop), sound-on-sound capable (interesting) and everything still plays like a charm. You just have to shift a couple of levers to either play or go fast and give the flywheel a little nudge and viola! You've got the music on tapes that are as old as 35. Chilling. Funny. I don't know what else.

Here are a couple of live "offerings" from Chevy 6, both around 1982.

First is a version of "You Better Run" by the Young Rascals that we did at Turtle Point CC in Killen, AL for a debutante party. I can't remember whose party it was, but it was a melee, and fun as hell. I've always loved this song, and everything the Rascals ever did. It features Jimmy Kinkead (God rest his soul) on Hammond B-3 and Jeff Rowell (God forgive him) on guitar and vocals. And of course, me (Ben), Roe and Ken.

You Better Run.mp3

During that time period, we lugged around a TEAC portable deck that we played our break music on (it had auto reverse, so you could slap a tape on with sensors on it and be gone on break forever, being as the drunken party-goers just wanted some noise. We were a threat to disappear in the crowds we played for, extending our breaks to embarrassing lengths at times. But in actuality, who knew? It was 1982.) We also used this travel recorder to tape live performances every now and then. For a while we were on a real jag.

The next little number, "Hello I Love You" by the Doors, is from the Phi Kappa Tau house at Ole Miss. I recall them being trashed at the time and really noisy fun.

This is really fun finding all this stuff. And being as I really do think this internet is gonna catch on, I'm sure we'll have more in the future. Maybe from a party where YOU were!

Hello I Love You.mp3