THE EARLY DAYS (1986 Test. 2016 edit) 3.11: Mark Saunders Adventures in Music (FoH)

This is a 1986 song and from what I can remember was inspired by my experiences in my first band, Fear of Humans, from 1980-81. I then edited it in Audacity in 2016 to improve it. I like it more now than I did then!

It was very much a tryout recording and is far from finished, but I think it's a decent song. It just comprises three elements: a lovely deep sweeping bass synth (on a Sequential Circuits Pro-One) with me then noodling the main backing melody over it, and finally singing a different melody over it. I might redo this one sometime and made it a bit bigger. Drawing by me, of my own hand!

Lyrics:

No experience, only guts and enthusiasm
And determination, a desire to succeed
This is what drove us on in
The early days

We were incomplete and out of time
No equipment, no time, no temper
But we could tell it felt good in
The early days

We were so young
We were so poor
We were so green
In the early days

Help from our close friends
Pushed us on in the wrong direction
We thought it must be easier to do in
The early days

We were so young
We were so poor
We were so green
In the early days…