1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Welcome to Why Make Music..., a podcast where we dive into the world of creativity and inspiration. 2 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Coming to you live from planet Earth. 3 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Why Make Music... 4 00:00:48,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to Why Make Music... 5 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I'm your host. ThinkTimm. That's T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M. 6 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:27,000 I will be the one curating your journey today for our lovely podcast. 7 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Episode 26. We are going to take a trip into the past. 8 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Think about it. Did you ever want to see the early start of creativity? 9 00:01:50,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Did you ever want to hear? Have you ever collected music from your favorite artist that might have been a bootleg? 10 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:19,000 It might have been something one day when this hobbyist of this independent producer, ThinkTimm, goes and finally reaches his goal. 11 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:41,000 This will be my legacy. My first attempt at WDMN. As the shirt says, we are here. 12 00:02:41,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Take a listen. 13 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:16,000 What you have here is a tent of me and my friend Mark. 14 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:25,000 We went to school together. College, university, as you call it. 15 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:40,000 And we got together. This is one of my earlier tracks. It's called TeleHumaSexual. Very cool song. 16 00:03:40,000 --> 00:04:05,000 What we did, we got together and we made like a mock radio station with commercials of some of the music from his group along with some of my music. 17 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Taking my soul, he was screaming. I love this song. TeleHumaSexual was just taking my soul. I can't control my dreams. 18 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Listen, so Mark was a creative writer and rapper and he had his stuff done at a outside studio, which his tracks will come on. 19 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:55,000 But this is me and I am. This was prior to sequencing. So this is me on the 4Track recorder 20 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I do believe I was using a Roland keyboard and that Yamaha keyboard is over my shoulder on the shelf there. 21 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:27,000 I programmed all the drums and I literally had to play out every track and lay every vocal and this was a repeated process. 22 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:42,000 And then I bounced the tracks down, mixed them down to one single track and then had to lay the vocals over top of it. 23 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:52,000 So here, take a listen. 24 00:05:52,000 --> 00:06:02,000 I'll be good. You don't see me like that. 25 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Oh, you're so terrible. 26 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Necessary light. 27 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:16,000 The necessary light. 28 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:27,000 So at that point in my life in 1994, I was working. 29 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:39,000 I do believe I got done working midnight and I came home every evening and recorded until the sun came up. 30 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:49,000 I know my neighbors had to hate me because granted I did record with headphones on and not the speakers blaring. 31 00:06:49,000 --> 00:07:00,000 But during that time, I lived in an apartment complex and I did have neighbors below me, not necessarily next door to me. 32 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:14,000 But I'm trying to think how the place was set up. There were neighbors with a person that had the identical footprint of my apartment below me, but there was no one above my floor. 33 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Oh, shit. Yes, there was. I was in the middle. So, yes, there was someone above me. 34 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 There was someone below me, but there was no one next door to me. 35 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:33,000 So I spent all my time recording music and writing things. 36 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:47,000 And I would invite folks over during this after midnight to six or nine o'clock in the morning hour. 37 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:55,000 And we would record. So this is how the habit started for me. 38 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Once I left my parents home and I was out on my own. 39 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:12,000 This was my first apartment by myself. And I had all the freedom in the world to do whatever I wanted to do. 40 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:29,000 I spent my money that I was earning buying equipment. I had the task and for track. I had my bass guitar. I had my electric guitar. I had my acoustic. 41 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:48,000 I'm a fan of their products. 42 00:08:48,000 --> 00:09:10,000 He's interviewing himself. 43 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:21,000 This is me calling. 44 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Yeah. 45 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:56,000 If anyone in the world, whoever is listening to this, this is Mark. I do believe his last name was anyway. 46 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:11,000 I'm not going to play it. But if you know anybody from the nineties that lived in the Pittsburgh area by route of Philadelphia, by route of Cheney University, 47 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Man, Mark, and he came from Pittsburgh originally and spent some time in Philadelphia. Let him know that I am playing his 3 (Three) Pounds of Soul material on my podcast. 48 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:48,000 This is, I don't know if anyone knows that there is a rumor that Prince wrote the song for Ray Charles.... Here it is. 49 00:10:48,000 --> 00:11:05,000 I'm uncertain if this is just a cover or this is the original one, but you know, Prince was so prolific and doing all types of craziness. But here we go. 50 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Now I hope I don't get dinged for putting that in there. But this, I've had this in my possession, obviously for a long time because this tape was made in 1994. So that's 31 years ago. 51 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:34,000 So this is 3 (Three) Pounds of Soul. Check them out. 52 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Percussion. 53 00:11:49,000 --> 00:12:18,000 So in 3 (Three) Pounds of Soul, there were three, Jay, Gracin, and Mark. So if you know anybody with those names, those friend groups, tell them, find ThinkTimm and Why Make Music..., the podcast, dot, dot, dot, and holler at me. 54 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:32,000 I don't reach out to people, so I'm not really going to go look for them, but I will respond if I was hit up. 55 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:55,000 So this was the 90s and the R&B mellow flow was kicking. This was the mid 90s. This is right before Big Blue and Jay-Z blew up. 56 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:08,000 The guys were cool. 57 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Every single hour. 58 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:43,000 So this is the reason for the podcast. Why Make Music... I am still trying to find my way and my direction. 59 00:13:43,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Sometimes I will give you advice about being independent, but I also want to share with you the background, the years that I was doing this as a hobbyist. 60 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:14,000 This right here is something that none of us were pushing for as a career. 61 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 This is my buddy Mark. 62 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,000 George as you Jet - son. 63 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 So listen. 64 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:34,000 All I'm saying, never give up on your dreams. 65 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Because, like I said, this is just playing around. 66 00:14:40,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Also during this time, I do believe I recall doing sound on a movie, an independent movie in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia era. 67 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:07,000 In the Philadelphia area. Let me add together. Let me pronounce my words. Use my language. 68 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:24,000 This is another track by 3 (Three) Pounds of Soul. 69 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:53,000 The movie was called Ebony and I cannot remember the young lady's name who wrote and directed it, but I do remember spending about two weeks in 1994, 1995. 70 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Working sound on the thing. So I actually had the boom mic in the recorder and I did that. 71 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:06,000 And I even think I submitted a song for her soundtrack. 72 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:16,000 There was a piano track called "So Soft" 73 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:25,000 After this, I do believe I have another track on here and then it's going to transition towards the end. 74 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:33,000 So I'm going to just keep talking over top of the music. 75 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I hope it's not too distracting and I will definitely bring the volume of the music in the background down lower. 76 00:16:52,000 --> 00:17:01,000 So hopefully it will be effective in the final track. 77 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000 This is one of my favorite old songs. 78 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:20,000 It's so crazy when you do something and you don't share it with a lot of people and it holds a special spot in your world. 79 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:33,000 But listen, this is something that pops up from time to time and has been re-innovated several times and several forms over the last three decades. 80 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Almost destroyed our island's light, it irritated me when you let me spend my head the search to run away but no stay. 81 00:17:51,000 --> 00:18:01,000 There's no place that I'd rather be, there's no face. 82 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:25,000 So I hope you enjoy this non informative episode of Why Make Music... dot dot dot where I am sharing music from the past. 83 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:48,000 I am trying to show everyone that is creative that you don't have to rush to have a goal when you are creating art. 84 00:18:48,000 --> 00:19:09,000 I don't feel bad or funny, I joked with a friend of mine before I started this podcast today when I was telling him my idea of putting together these old tracks and putting it out there. 85 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:18,000 And I said, oh my goodness, people are going to judge me and say, oh you're such a loser. 86 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:24,000 I put the L up to my forehead, yeah you're such a loser. 87 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:31,000 You've been trying to make music for all these decades and you haven't succeeded. 88 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 I haven't really been trying, it's just something that I do. 89 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:57,000 This is my first actual time that I am venturing farther than my city and reaching out and like I said, I am open to whatever business ventures come my way. 90 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:17,000 At the time of doing this, I was young, I had a job that turned into a career and I did not necessarily do music every single day. 91 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 I did, but then I didn't. 92 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,000 I had phases where I was heavily into it. 93 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:48,000 I had phases where I recorded with people, I had phases where I had a band, I had phases where I worked with other bands, I did a little artist management as far as trying to get people to the places they wanted to be and help them out in the system. 94 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:57,000 But it was never something that I was pursuing heavily into it. 95 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:08,000 So what I'm saying is that if you're talented, it's okay to be talented in a room full of people. 96 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,000 It's okay, probably, I ain't gonna lie to you. 97 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:24,000 I always approach situations and look at people that are talented and say, oh, it's amazing that you made it and you did it. 98 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I'm very happy that you made it. 99 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:34,000 But I personally think I'm more talented than you are. 100 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:49,000 And I think that's the natural way you're supposed to be. 101 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Yeah, we had skits and all that craziness. 102 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:59,000 The 1990s was very full of skit heavy type things. 103 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Everybody wanted to get their pseudo act on somehow somewhere. 104 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:22,000 And the funny thing is, I don't think outside of maybe a half a dozen people have heard this thing that I'm playing for you right now. 105 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,000 It's crazy. 106 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,000 It ends with a big explosion. 107 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Once again, don't know why no real story purpose behind it. 108 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:53,000 But just to do it because I had to sound effects on my keyboard. 109 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Listen, speaking of t shirts, go to TeePublic.com. 110 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Get yourself some ThinkTimm gear. 111 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 I got the logo. 112 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000 I got the t shirts. 113 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 I got the stuff online. 114 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:22,000 I am just trying to now in my old age, leave my mark as George Clinton say, trying to "pee on the track". 115 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Yeah, I hope you people listen to who George Clinton is. 116 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Here's another track in the background. 117 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:51,000 As always, as in current time, all the music is produced by ThinkTimm. 118 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000 I did not have a thing to do stuff. 119 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:03,000 This is when I was more heavily into doing vocal and making full fledged songs. 120 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:17,000 So I don't want you to think if you are coming across my current projects that I have any aversion to making songs. 121 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I have hundreds and hundreds of instrumentals. 122 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:40,000 I probably have twice as many literal songs that could be retold and dust off, dust it off and put into my rotation. 123 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:50,000 To tell you the truth, to tell you the truth, I have been working on this for a long time. 124 00:24:50,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Month February into March is the first month that I did not release a another project of 26 instrumentals. So currently available. 125 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Projects, Demotional, Beatanicals, SupraLaBass, Lofiication, PeriHopic, 126 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:41,000 and NomenClefture, dot, dot, dot. 127 00:25:41,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Each trial, each project contains 26 tracks, instrumental, all original music, all written, produced and arranged by me. 128 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:09,000 No samples, no hint of any other music besides my own. 129 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:33,000 So what I'm currently doing now as we are into 2025, I am putting together a, I guess, more comprehensive, traditional album 130 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:46,000 that might be possibly a dozen tracks or so, and they will be vocal tracks. 131 00:26:46,000 --> 00:27:02,000 And I am currently working on those and I feel rather positive in the direction that I am going. 132 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:15,000 And I can't wait to share the reason I am doing this is because once again, my goal is always been, 133 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:32,000 I am just trying to get the attention of think agents and commercial licensing folks to be interested in myself. 134 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:41,000 I am not trying to be an entertainer. I am not trying to leave my home. 135 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:51,000 I work as hard as I can from home, but I like being home. 136 00:27:51,000 --> 00:28:14,000 If someone in the music atmosphere, I'm not going to say music business, but if someone, a music producer of a higher status, 137 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:23,000 that could facilitate a financial exchange. 138 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:38,000 I tell you, you will be shocked how quickly I, how quickly and how inexpensive fulfilling my dreams would be. 139 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Because, like I said, I am just trying to live or continue to live my above average life. 140 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:03,000 I would love to be filthy rich. I would love to be one of the wealthy people. 141 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:12,000 But let me tell you, I say it and quote me on it. I've said it in many other podcasts. 142 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:29,000 If you ever listen to Why Make Music... dot dot dot hosted by me, ThinkTimm, T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M. 143 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:42,000 What do I say? Currently, we could do a split. We can do business. You can have everything I have. 144 00:29:42,000 --> 00:30:00,000 I know that it will make money. I am seeing how hard it is to grow an organic community of fans. And even then, that is still no money. 145 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:15,000 I am not performing live. I am not DJing. I do not have people knocking down my door. If you are a producer, that does. 146 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:32,000 That may need material and may need a well to draw from, meaning that you might need an untapped source of creativity, 147 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:46,000 known as a ThinkTim, T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M, like your own personal think tank. 148 00:30:46,000 --> 00:31:03,000 I would work for you and I would happily take a percentage because right now, here comes the quote that I was leading up to. 149 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Currently, a deal will be worth more than what I am getting, which is nothing. 50-50, 60-40, 70-30, 80-20, 90-10. 150 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:46,000 10% of nothing is nothing. Currently, I am making no money, no funds from doing this. 151 00:31:46,000 --> 00:32:03,000 I am doing this because this is something I love to do. I am marketing myself trying to achieve some type of attention, some type of attention to move my music, 152 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:25,000 some type of attention to say, hey, perhaps this young man, this old gray man has years and years of ideas and he never really fully tried to put them out there. 153 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:39,000 Let me tell you, music is music. I can rebuff and retool and restyle and reproduce and make it sound like today. 154 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:47,000 That's me in the background. I don't like to sing. I claim I can't sing. This is me. 155 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:59,000 No effects on my voice because I couldn't afford effect processors back then. That is me. 156 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:13,000 The most I might have did was slow the tape down some and sing over the tape while I was going slow to pitch up my voice a little higher. That was it. 157 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:28,000 I did not have a processor. I did not have auto tune. I don't even know if auto tune existed. It didn't 30 years ago. 158 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:48,000 So all I'm telling you, oh, this right here that's coming on is this crazy song I did with this young lady who I told you before once in an earlier podcast. 159 00:33:48,000 --> 00:34:06,000 The only way you met people that you did not know was to possibly put an ad in the paper and I put an ad in the trading times for a person, anyone that was interested. 160 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:19,000 And I came across this young lady who was a student at a university in Philadelphia outside of Philadelphia and she had this lyric thing. 161 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:33,000 It was like a goth chick before it was really popular because she wasn't. This track was called kill me. You kill me. It was crazy. 162 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:59,000 So she went on and it was really dark and it took some real creativity to put some type of strings and dark music to it. 163 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:08,000 This right here is a little bit more upbeat up tempo play around. 164 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:32,000 And this right here, when I did it, it was basically really just done by itself and three takes or four takes. 165 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:42,000 Because once again, I was reaching out and working with another person. 166 00:35:42,000 --> 00:36:09,000 And this time it was a co-worker's daughter who sung and I just brought them over and tried to show them what I still say today is the ease and comfort of putting ideas together. 167 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:22,000 So, as I always say, Why Make Music... 168 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:51,000 Because it's the most interesting and most complete thing that would spawn on a creative to answer, to talk, to speak what's on their mind, to introduce you, to pull you into their world. 169 00:36:51,000 --> 00:37:00,000 So, as always, I tell you, stay creative. 170 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:21,000 Continue to always do what you find to make yourself inspire to be that person you want to be. 171 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:36,000 I want to thank you all for streaming the music, tuning in to the podcast, frequently these social media platforms. 172 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:52,000 Don't forget, hit up the TeePublic.com, Threadless.com, Thinktimm,.. T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M. 173 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,000 What did I say? 174 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:01,000 For humans, life is a hustle. 175 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Life is the hustle. 176 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000 We are. 177 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Why Make Music... 178 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:20,000 We are W-D-M-N. 179 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000 We are. 180 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000 Thinktimm... 181 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:31,000 We are W-D-M-N-ation.. 182 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:45,000 We are soon to becoming the interactive DJ, DJ Warm Cookies.. 183 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:52,000 We are all the things that my mind can say we are. 184 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000 So, what are you going to do? 185 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000 How are you going to be creative? 186 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Are you going to put your creativity into a digital sound capsule and revisit it in a couple of decades? 187 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,000 And be happy with what you did. 188 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,000 Be happy with the thoughts. 189 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:28,000 And you can see that progress can be made. 190 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:35,000 I'm scared now that I'm really trying to share because before then, back then, I wasn't. 191 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:43,000 I was just biding my time being creative because I knew not what else to do. 192 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:49,000 But once again, people, I thank you. 193 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Like, share, follow, subscribe. 194 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,000 Do what you do. 195 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,000 Peace and be wild. 196 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:14,000 Remember, Thinktimm... is nothing else. 197 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:42,000 Thank you.