My First Time Away From Home 1988 -(Weird Paul) Recording Workshop Leaving Home Moving Story

[@PokeTonyL5]

This guy’s memory, memorabilia from these times, and story telling is absolutely incredible!

[@skitzothejoker8413]

No kidding man

[@liftedviewz]

Absolutely! He is on twitch if your interested or want more Weird Paul content!

[@Polygonlin]

Yeah, i got a Memory like he does, i can remember TONS of little bits of info about my past, and childhood.. though a lot of my memories are sad, though. id make a youtube channel and talk about my memories, but i don't think im even close to as good of a story teller as Paul is

[@awfultune]

paul! loved this story :) thank you

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks! That means a lot to me!

[@Inaflap]

Chuck is the vision. Chuck is the sound. Chuck is the live wire, that sparks to the ground.

[@weirdpaulp]

You understand!

[@SquirrelMonkeyCom]

Great video!

[@weirdpaulp]

:)

[@RealPeterGunn]

Paul, I attended The Recording Workshop in the summer of 1983. I lived in one of the miniature cabins they provided. The Mead paper plant was firing on all cylinders back then and the restaurant next door to the school was there as well. All the females lived in a “house” next to the school as well. Just wanted to say thanks for bringing up some great old memories. Take it easy brother!!

[@koolsteins]

Amazing that you were able to keep documentation of all of this. I hope you continue to do alright. :)

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks! I left out some stuff, because the video maxed out in the timeline on my old laptop. It couldn't handle any more! I think I may have IBS, at least a doctor told me that was her opinion of my symptoms.

[@KabukiKid]

I'm honestly blown away by his level of documentation. It's a bit unreal! heh

[@MarkyMark81]

That was so fascinating. Amazing how you still have your teachers Album and the real to real tape. Great story. I need to binge watch some weird Paul on my tv this weekend. I think this might be one of my favorite stories you told.

[@weirdpaulp]

One of these days, I hope that I can get out my reel-to-reel and play those tapes again...I will probably get some memories back when I do!

[@melissamcqueen582]

This was so similar to my life in the early '90s in the SF Bay Area that I literally clapped and lmao'd through the whole vid. Glad you were able to document all this, Paul!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you, Melissa! I had hoped that others would see some of their past in my memories!

[@melissamcqueen582]

@@weirdpaulp You did it dude. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@trentdavis2294]

Youre a living treasure! Ive learned so much 80s thanks to you!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks!

[@AngelMissyMe]

Love love love!!!!!!!! I love your past! So much fun!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you so much!

[@bubbahogg-buga4613]

omg missy i love your globe videos!! 😻

[@AngelMissyMe]

@@bubbahogg-buga4613 Thanks!

[@tastywindex]

The best part of all these anniversary vids is seeing the inspirations for random songs come out of so many specific things. Makes listening to them more fun.

[@popculturevegan]

Absolutely loved this video. Great balance of the present narrative and story and reminiscing. Thanks, Paul.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you, that means so much.

[@MovieVigilante]

Weird Paul's Behind the Music. I like it. Now we know the origin of Tom Ate A Banana.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks! More about Tom Ate a Banana when I do the video on "Now I Blow My A-B-C's in February"!

[@MovieVigilante]

@@weirdpaulp Can't wait!

[@S0lidState]

I heard he attended MTV's AC\DC Unplugged.

[@raab837]

I love you paul. You're one of the greats!

[@weirdpaulp]

:)

[@thugmagicthugnificentdr.th7589]

Damn i can listen to ur stories all day.

[@weirdpaulp]

That's good!

[@JesseH76]

I really enjoy this video, Paul. It was great seeing your new adventure away from home as a young adult. Your first roommates were like the perfect fit as fellow musicians. What great times! ♥️ Weird Paul!🤓

[@bunberrier]

Hey Paul, we are about the same age. I first heard you back in about 94 on Rollins College Radio in Winter Park FL. The DJ had a guest, Heinous Beanfang, for the Halloween Special. He played Meat in the Tang. Heinous encouraged people to break off some church sculptures and bring them into the campus but the DJ quickly quashed that idea. Its fun to see here how a part of your youth was being spent, far away in another world, basically, at the same time. Thanks! Im going to go look at the water heater.

[@metalfacemark]

Hey Paul, I really enjoyed this, I love how passionately you speak about the time and I love that you keep all your stuff from the past, Respect from Scotland.

[@earthspirit2556]

This reminds me of the time my friend Kelly went to summer camp and sent tapes she recorded in her bunk. Amazing how much life we all used to keep on audio cassettes.

[@ellenjo86324]

I love these videos so much. Your documentation is tops and such a treasure.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you.

[@johnpowell3543]

Cool story Paul. Thanks for sharing.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks John!

[@b5maddog]

This was awesome! So cool and amazing footage of it all. Thanks for sharing this Paul.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you for watching!

[@jeremydennen8890]

I really enjoyed the story and how you've documented your life. Keep the memories coming!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks Jeremy!

[@JaxenRossisback]

jeremy dennen He could literally put all these mixtapes on iTunes and make a profit off of them.

[@weirdpaulp]

I have some of my albums on iTunes...as well as Spotify and other places too. Still working on getting all of them on there.

[@desertcoliseum]

I am touring this school next week thanks to this video.

[@CMB76]

I really enjoyed this video and your story! It reminds me of my time at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 94/95 and living with friends in a trailer park while we had our first job in Pittston PA. Those are times you will always remember.

[@weirdpaulp]

Very cool! I have to start writing down all the memories I have that are only in my brain...they start slipping away more and more every year.

[@jerickzane]

Nice pleasant memories you have Paul. You are one of the lucky ones.

[@weirdpaulp]

I have a lot of bad memories too, but I try not to think about them!

[@bobfalfa62]

Very cool Paul. One of your best. Thanks for sharing.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you so much!

[@GoombaKiller171]

Chuck is the pen. Chuck is the paper. Chuck is the guy that cleans the skyscraper.

[@PrototheDodo]

I’m going to this next year Paul! It’s so cool coming back to this video years later and doing it

[@georgemurphy4842]

Awesomeness! Enjoyed your documentary recently too! One cool dude! .....

[@weirdpaulp]

Glad you liked the movie, George!

[@SinistarPro_Mike]

Very cool my friend! Thanks for sharing this awesome part of your life. I remember the first time that I left home, though only for a short while, was undoubtedly the best part of my teen years. I was ordered to attend a behavioral project called Outward Bound, and although I didn't much care for it at first, I ended up loving it mid-way through. Not a day goes by that I don't look back on it. Cheers buddy, and take care!

[@rocdocs]

I swear someone gave me that "Copyright Basics" photocopy at one point. Wow. These are so good, Paul - I can only imagine the work that goes into it. Thanks for sharing so much about your life, man!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks for watching!

[@christopherrose5474]

I’m still laughing at “my shits like soup” haha

[@mangafandanga7427]

mint! love your back in time stories!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks Simon! Got a lot more of them, that's for sure!

[@rjc7289]

So cool that you got to meet Geoff Workman. He engineered a lot of my favorite albums, like Motley Crue's Shout At The Devil and Twisted Sister's Stay Hungry.

[@weirdpaulp]

He was a master.

[@orangecaprinun]

That was so... so.. soothing ? maybe To listen to

[@thevalkyrie1477]

I LOVE how you talk like a kid reading his journal out loud.

[@sidubsy]

This is probably my favorite Weird Paul video

[@ImTheDaveman]

Dude - totally enjoyed your story! I got a good grin on the learning about "knobs and stuff". You certainly have a way of expressing yourself - which I do believe that makes you a champ. Paul - I had no idea that such schools had effective Facial ID in 1988 (at 2:58). Gotta give 80s it's due.

[@weirdpaulp]

Yep, Polaroid, the original Facial ID.

[@traet906]

Hey Weird Paul, Went there myself fall of 1990 after graduating and getting a small scholarship. I remember a lot of the same things, the pizza store (which had some excellent burgers also), the smell at first, and the video you got to add overdubs to. I still have a lot of my stuff, reel to reel, books, and theory papers that you show in the video. Just looking up some old clubs I use to play in and thought about The Recording Workshop to see if anyone these days makes KZbin videos from the school. Love my experience at that time in my life learning about the recording process. They were just getting into the digital recording process. Coming back home all I had for a while was recording on a dual cassette deck that I bounced guitar tracks back and forth. Thanks for the video!

[@weirdpaulp]

Very cool!

[@jubithinks9116]

This was nice to watch

[@aidanndanyoutube971]

Just watched I love it my birthday is November 22 You are amazing weird Paul we are twins

[@kimberleysinnott7970]

Paul I love the way you tell the stories you need to do more 😎👌

[@jamesmcoy570]

Great story! I cracked up when you said you "learned knobs" from the book. ha ha! And coffee filters for toilet paper ...lol. Sometimes you just got to do what you have to do. :)

[@weirdpaulp]

That's how you get through this crazy life!

[@jamesmcoy570]

That's for sure! Lol

[@sandwichgod7514]

WOW, that sounds like a school that I wish I had near me! Too bad recording schools today don't offer analog recording as a course. Cool Video Paul!!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks!

[@bood22ataol]

I've watched a lot of your videos, but this is my favourite. Nice to hear some detailed background on your life, amongst the others.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks!

[@kerisbule]

"Low fidelity high anxiety," , Homestead records. Dang, that was a long time ago. Weird Paul has only been a footnote between my two thick little ears....until now. Fantastic video here, I will forward it to my ma. ❤

[@badname8501]

WOW cool story

[@lorsmalo]

Great story !

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you!

[@Nesmaniac]

Very cool. I watched all of it which is rare with me on a youtube video over 5 mins long.

[@juanfilipwinifred]

I love this video

[@Wild1995]

I really loved this story. And seriously you guys had some talent to be able to just pick up guitars and come up with that stuff. I think you guys missed your calling. I can see you 3 guys writing jingles for commercials.

[@EdHasLeft]

First we all love you paul

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you!

[@imnamedaj3192]

This was awesome Paul! Thanks for sharing! Take care, AJ

[@Specter1065]

Best memory video! Duuuuude!!

[@janethowell89]

I did enjoy the story. :)

[@larrygohome5291]

Thanks for these videos. I enjoy your "company".

[@careysfever]

I live in Fayetteville, Ohio! So I'm near Chillicothe!

[@weirdpaulp]

Wow, very close to Cincinnati! I played in Cincy in 2016 and 2018.

[@askgodforyou]

Nice video I went there in 1985 thanks for the flashback was that little restaurant still there with the jukebox beside the school oh those anolog days

[@weirdpaulp]

Yep that little pizza place was still there!

[@thatbishhhnish8131]

omg i really just laughed until i actually cried at the “my shits like soup” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@nathandalke9318]

I'm so in love with Paul is so cute really loved his videos

[@NESADDICT]

Fun memories Paul!

[@samhur4294]

Brilliant! 😂😂😂😂

[@lamarrotems]

This is awesome

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you!

[@sheltonduff7393]

So fascinating

[@sillybighat]

brilliant story....

[@stevet3733]

I really can't believe I watched this video but I'm glad I did. Good story and I hope you reconnect with your buddies sometime!

[@heathinvadervlogs638]

I love these videos!!! These stories are so funny, and very memorable. Don't stop making vids! Also, you've just got to release the full audio tapes someday! These are GEMS!!!!!!! Especially now that we know the stories behind them. :D

[@sherrybell3924]

Loved this.

[@elevatorsfan]

What a funny and cool story. Thanks Weird Paul!

[@weirdpaulp]

Glad that you enjoyed it!

[@borutosdad5550]

My only complaint is that this video is only 18 minutes long, this deserve to be twice that.

[@PerAnkh418]

Great memories,brill

[@RetroGamingWithEdgarRivera]

Wow. That's a really awesome story my friend. Of course I really like the old school way make to music and sound effects. it was the same fashion as the video it was all analog. Now that is digital. Still great awesome video.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you Edgar!

[@fredericksoul25]

Sounds like a great time

[@michaelg1009]

Paul just wanted to say thank you for helping me with your videos. I watch your videos and my anxiety goes away. Growing up in the 80s was good because I was a kid and being that young you got away with alot. My question is that do you have any videos that show more of the family? Thanks Paul and have a good night.

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks Michael! There's lots of videos with my family, here's one from Thanksgiving 1985: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqucp2B7htKcZpo

[@briankelly9347]

@@weirdpaulp what state did you live in?

[@poetink]

Happy belated Birthday Paul! I turned 48 the day before your birthday. 11/20 Hope it was a good day for you.

[@jdrose1000]

That was a good story!

[@CAYPRODUCTORA]

loved the story, all the details. i had a great time watching your video, as always!

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you!

[@UltimateWarrior84]

Great video! Its awesome to listen back to a time when simple fun between buddies meant a lot. And to not here cussing in those tapes every two seconds. Today friends together in a trailer having fun would be dropping F bombs every 4 words. Times have surely changed, and not for the better.

[@michaelaiken6482]

Would you say you were one of the first Spuds like me and Devo was the future? I was meant to love that band. They came to me at different times. People would abandon their music. And I got it. I still love them.

[@fleadoggreen9062]

I like ur show

[@Videocipher]

Awesome video Paul

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you!

[@d.r49]

Cool video 👌👌👍👍

[@RobForg]

The poems about chuck xD

[@weirdpaulp]

There were literally HUNDREDS of those!

[@petrey9712]

Always wondered about that place and almost went there , would of been about the same time as you but choose a different path anyway I'm new to your channel and really like it . We're about the same age and I can't believe you kept so much of your past and thanks for sharing.

[@lemonyfresh26]

Not first, you are my favorite

[@weirdpaulp]

:)

[@THECLARENCES]

Hi Weird Paul!!! You’re the best!!! xoxo The Clarences

[@Brutis1996]

These videos are so cool

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks

[@henrys3629]

I was an 8th grader in 88. Sweet Polaroid. Wow 3 inches of TV! Coffee will never be the same again. PS some guy calls me Chuck. No idea why.

[@weirdpaulp]

We were so excited to watch that tiny TV. You have to be, when that's all you have.

[@bloodyscalp94]

Best video ever

[@myramadd6651]

I had a friend who passed away two years who went to that school, too.

[@weirdpaulp]

RIP

[@davikleinpaul]

My man was the true first vlogger ever 💀💀

[@TheGamingEffect100]

Kinda reminds me of me in a way, I graduated in June and I didn’t want to go to school. And If I would go, I had no idea what for! Right now I’m just a working man fresh outta HS and still thinking what would be good for me

[@weirdpaulp]

Sometimes it's like that. Some people know exactly what they are going to do, but for others, it takes more introspection. Neither one is bad, it's just different.

[@juniorkong9587]

"The results were disgusting." hahahahaha. Thanks PP

[@lalaalalala]

hahaha man that whole tape with the blank piece part made me spit tea everywhere. that music is hilarious

[@aaronberns8485]

Nowadays we have DAWS such as logic prox and Finale. We have the studio in the palm of our hands with just a download of an app so we don't even have to travel to the studio and pay studio fees. This vidoe just goes to show how much stuff has changed in over 30 years.

[@TheScratchBully]

I love this dude🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@weirdpaulp]

Thanks Jacob!

[@WireHeadProductions]

Yooooo wailing the shit out of guys sounds like the best song ever you guys r awesome I love your music

[@NerdOutWithMe]

Digging it. :)

[@weirdpaulp]

Thank you!

[@mikehunt3129]

As the only other student from the Pgh area it's sad I didn't get to know you better. But that damn Larry Pester!

[@weirdpaulp]

yessssssss

[@mikehunt3129]

@Weird Paul I'm not sure if you remember me but I was a few years older and obviously my name is not Mike it's Jim and I live in good old Butler PA and have been working for USPS for 30 yrs. The only thing I still do with my RWS skills is restore old vinyl as I became a Father a few years after and now a Grandfather. My kids love your stuff. Really enjoyed the Workshop video. Wow.