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This song was recorded at my home studio with Audacity, a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds on my 160GB, 3.2 GHZ Pentium IV HP computer made back in 2004. I upgraded the memory to 2GB. Only 512 MB of memory originally came with the computer. This song was recorded with basic equipment, from a first act guitar for leads, a Fender Deluxe Stratocaster for rhythm (played through a Crate 120 Watt solid state amp), a small Peavey 50 watt bass amp, a Cameo bass guitar, a first act drum set, and a $10 computer microphone, all while capturing the sounds as I performed them live without a real time compressor or mixer, making it quite the challenge to balance the entire sound.
This is the 2nd song I wrote back when I was 15 years old. The beginning of the song was originally the ending, but I turned it into a kind of a false start intro, which is out of time with the actual song. I was inspired by Gordon Lightfoot and The Bee Gees, hence the bass ending which is right off The Bee Gees "To Love Somebody" and "Alive." I wrote it shortly after listening to Roy Orbison's "It's Over" who also deeply influenced my musical tastes. And yet another artist inspired me when it came to the bridge, Elvis Presley. I finished the bridge after watching his "comeback" performance (originally made way back before I was born) specifically of the song, "One Night." My song was originally entitled, "Baby, Don't Let Me Find You Down" but within the last few hours of this recording, I changed a couple of the lines that I didn't like and renamed the song to just DON'T LET ME, which is a Beatles influence of "Don't Let Me Down." Also, as an accident, my two Doberman's were barking at the end of the song, so instead of cleaning up the ending, I left all the sounds in so you can hear them bark faintly near the end, alike The Beatles' "I Feel Fine." Lastly, the song, "Take It Easy" by the Eagles influenced the "off-timed" break little more than mid-way through the song. That part of the song is new since I wasn't an Eagles fan when I was a teenager. I've obviously been influenced a great deal. Now that I'm older, a few things make more sense than they did back then when I first wrote the song. A line I replaced was, "You make me want to say HELLO," which came from an ex-girlfriend of mine who always greeted me with the word HELLO before starting any conversation. The line now reads, "You understand all that I know."

Recorded at MINE Music Studio in Auburn, WA.

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Baby, Don’t Let Me Find You Down.
Baby, Runnin’ Me All Around.
I Don’t Know What You’re Puttin’ Me Through.
Can’t Understand What You’re Gonna Do To Me.

Baby, Don’t Let Me Find You Gone.
Baby, 'Cause I’m Always Doin’ Wrong.
I Can’t Go On
When Everything’s All Gone Away.

Baby, Honey, Please Don’t Go!
I’ll Miss You So.
If You Make My Dreams Come True,
I Will Love You True.

Baby, Don’t Let Me Let You Go.
You Understand All That I Know.
I’ll Wait Here All Alone.
I’ll Be Waiting Here By The Phone For You, For You.

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from EMOTIONAL INCEST (2024 Remaster), released May 6, 2014
Wayde K. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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