Originally Posted by Birchwood
What a history that song has; 47 years ago you wrote it and 37 years later you recorded it for the first time. I'm a bit curious why?

Thanks for your nice words, I'm glad you like the song.
Why I recorded it so late? Well, it's simple: because I didn't have the technical means to do it back then. When I was young, I had an acoustic guitar and a cassette recorder. You could record a song with them, but it just didn't sound like much. (Actually, I once recorded this song as well, but the recording got lost.)

Later, I invested in a 4-track cassette recorder (FOSTEX), but every time I tried to produce a song really well, I was utterly disappointed with the end result—so much so that it always took me a long time before I tried again. Even when I finally bought an iMac and suddenly had GarageBand included for free, I couldn't get it to sound the way I wanted; the drums, in particular, were always a problem.

The game-changer came in 2012 when I discovered Band-in-a-Box – I don't need to explain to any of you why. But then I still had to figure out how to use the audio interface, the effects, and so on, before I dared to record my first songs. Although the results were immediately much better than my previous attempts, my standards have risen along with it, and I’m basically still learning how to get it right (and I rarely pull myself together enough to keep going).

In a nutshell: I’ve wasted a lot of time, growing old in the process. frown

Essential: Band-in-a-Box. DAW: Reason (formerly GarageBand). Interface: Focusrite.
I only wish I had had all this stuff available when I was young …