Technology Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Wow, now that's an ending, I made it and all the chords sound 

like they should go there, nothing to punch in and fix 

I was thinking about how we've all been jaded a bit 

by the technological advances that now are part of the 

process of writing songs and making recordings 

To start with, you don't have to go to a studio to make recordings 

anymore you can do it at home or in a hotel room on the road 

Right now I'm on tour and recording these notes, 

ironically enough in a rented waterfront 

condo in Perdito Key, Florida 3 miles East of the 

Florabama bar 

The rally point of my misspent youth 

The gear I'm using is a long way from the Garrick Production Sound 

It fits into a small carry on suitcase, I use a studio these days 

more for rehearsals than recordings and so it goes 

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I guess the main reason I have loved listening 

to these old tracks is that they have really 

come from another time and place 

Like any treasure worth its salt should do 

The cool thing to me about listening now, in the age where 

you can cut and paste, tune and loop, sample, copy and quantise 

is how simple and fun these tracks sound 

Your first studio experience is 

simply a wonderful discovery experience 

for a would be singer 

I was a nightclub entertainer and a product of Bourbon Street bars 

Making records was something real stars did, real stars played 

on the radio and millions of people heard their songs 

We were club players, copying the hits that were popular at the time 

I'd never set foot in a studio up until the time I set foot inside 

Product Sound Studios 

I did have a Sony reel to reel machine that my 

Uncle Bill had brought me back from Japan 

That we played around with recording our rehearsals 

and some of our shows in New Orleans but that was it 

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So although it was a small studio in a small town, known more for 

Mardi Gras than music 

Product Sound was still a studio 

Hell they even recorded on new tape 

in boxes sealed in plastic wrappers 

that had never been opened 

Luckily in years up the road the 

studio got bigger and better but I never 

have forgotten that first time I 

stood in front of a studio mic and put 

headphones on mhy ears and in my mind I was on the way 

to becoming a recording artist 

And I did not care how long and how hard I would have to work to turn 

that dream into reality, from the moment I stepped in that booth 

I was fully committed to trying for the brass ring 

on the merry-go-round I had chosen to ride for life 

Here is another song from the Mobile 

sessions, I can't be your hero today