I can't stop

listening to Led Zeppelin and it's getting really embarassing. The second side of IV is so awesome (the first side on the other hand, I couldn't probably listen to as many times as I listened to it when I was 16). Jimmy Page was on some next shit before there was ever like, current shit. Or something. Me and Gabe and J Carl spent all of Sunday afternoon rigging together a supremely lo-fi recording (Jason's insanely budget mics, my Radio Shack Crapelistic mic, into a $50 Behringer mixing board with only 2 mic pres, so I'm boosting the mic for J's kick drum with a $15 distortion pedal-out of the mixing board into Gabe's cassette deck which has more wow and flutter than most analog synths and hasn't had the heads cleaned since 1997) setup out of frustration of forgetting every song we play. It was sooo incredibly enjoyable figuring out how we were going to mic drums, get signal from gabe's laptop, and somehow keep my guitar rig at a level volume. It really was! I don't know why I get off on sitting there battling and battling with it, but it feels so good when you can at last hear everything. I'm currently in full ebay/craig's list predator mode to get a "top of the line" casette four-track. With the advent of digital 4-tracks what was once a $500-$600 deck now goes for like $140-I love using computers to edit and generate sound but genuinely do not want to spend music time figuring out submenus on a hard drive 4 track. God, the TV is on behind me and all of sudden "Fraiser" just got all emo-Roz is screaming at him about something. Oh, really now, Roz! I bet that's what he'll say next.