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03 S​.​T​.​S. - "I Can't Remember"

from The Discography of John Barlow by In Memory Of John Barlow

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S.T.S.
S.T.S. was the first band that John and I were ever in. I was about 15 and John was around 13 or 14. After we both took guitar lessons for a few years, he decided he wanted to start a band and unleash his rock unto the world. John was always an awesome musician, while I sucked horribly at playing guitar.
Most of the shows we played were at places like Collenbrook in Drexel Hill, the Sacred Heart auditorium in Clifton Heights and the YMCA in Lansdowne. With the exception of Collenbrook, we booked the shows ourselves. John always wanted to have another show booked. From a very young age, he just wanted to play. It didn’t matter where or who with, just as long as he was playing.
The demo itself was recorded on a 4 track tascam cassette recorder above Todaro’s music in Lansdowne. Our guitar instructor at the time Greg recorded it for us. We were so excited to record. I didn’t think that any of the original cassettes still existed, but our cousin Cathy still had a copy and mailed it over to Brian after John’s passing.
John and I spent hours upon hours photocopying the covers at the 7-11 in Clifton Heights, cutting them down to size, folding them, copying the tapes (we didn’t have a hi-speed dubbing deck at the time, all the copies were done in real time) and then hand labeling the stickers that were on the cassettes themselves. That was something that was part of the life style at the time. Everything was DIY. Every last penny we had went into buying more tapes, more photocopies, more labels… And we loved every last second of it.
It’s not the best sounding recording, but hopefully someone gets a kick out of this tape.

- Michael Barlow

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from The Discography of John Barlow, released May 6, 2014

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