do we know the date of his very first home recording and what was on it? It definitely was before Carl Weissner or John Thomas started recording him.
Was the 1962 KPFK broadcast recorded at his home by himself or in the studio? ( I'd bet he didn't record that in public/studio then.)
In a letter to Doug Blazek (Apr 12, 1065) he "turned on a tape I made while drunk and I layed on the floor listening to my quips and madness and singing", which in all its easiness doesn't quite sound like the reading for the radio. (I also am pretty sure, I've read even earlier letters, where he mentions taping.)
The first mentioning I remember now is in the poem 'remains':
[...]
but I even have her voice on tape
and she speaks some evenings,
her again,
so real she laughs,
says the thousand things, [....]
which (if it's true) had been recorded before Jan 1962.
(The poem itself dates not later than June 1962, since it had been sent toghether with a letter of that date to Sheri Martinelli.)
Was it so common to use (and maybe even own!) a recording-machine for private purposes back in 1962? (and was it even affordable?)
Was the 1962 KPFK broadcast recorded at his home by himself or in the studio? ( I'd bet he didn't record that in public/studio then.)
In a letter to Doug Blazek (Apr 12, 1065) he "turned on a tape I made while drunk and I layed on the floor listening to my quips and madness and singing", which in all its easiness doesn't quite sound like the reading for the radio. (I also am pretty sure, I've read even earlier letters, where he mentions taping.)
The first mentioning I remember now is in the poem 'remains':
[...]
but I even have her voice on tape
and she speaks some evenings,
her again,
so real she laughs,
says the thousand things, [....]
which (if it's true) had been recorded before Jan 1962.
(The poem itself dates not later than June 1962, since it had been sent toghether with a letter of that date to Sheri Martinelli.)
Was it so common to use (and maybe even own!) a recording-machine for private purposes back in 1962? (and was it even affordable?)