A good piece, showing the need for talent before gear. In my case, I have no talent at all and only a little bit of gear. Oh well. I should give it to a charity.
No. Those recordings were ghetto. Intelligible, but ghetto. And they don't count because they're just voice and guitar - except that last one where it did have more instruments and sounded awful. Kick drum sounded like those 50s thunder get-ups.