The Ed Gein Fan Club
Music For Killing Children
First demo cassette from EGFC.
I love those early cassette demo tapes from the 80’s….before CD’s and MP3’s, cassette tape demos and compilation tapes are how bands got their names around. Most bands did exactly what EGFC did, stuck a boom box in the corner of their parents basement while they rocked out their best tunes. Then they sold or gave away as many as they could to get the name around and hopefully get a show. I remember heading to the local record store (in my case Northern Lights, FlipSide or Cheapo) and checking out the band demos that sat on the counter. It might take a month to sell out a box of tapes, but it was fun.
Today bands just find a friend with a laptop and a bootlegged copy of ProTools, and they make a pretty slick sounding recording that they can post to a MySpace page for the whole world to hear. Times were different back then. Not that having a good sounding recording of your early material is bad, that part is great. But it’s almost too easy now. Anyone can start up a MySpace page in 10 minutes and get all their friends linked to it within a day. No effort. No cost. It’s all free.
Relive those old days with an old crappy demo tape. Done the way old crappy demo tapes were meant to be done.
Get it here.
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