Does anybody besides me still love em ?
Just Gorgeous :)
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Hmmm....gotta admit I don't miss 'em. I like the way modern technology lets you skip more easily from song to song. :)
Nostalgic feelings. I recall countless hours making mix tapes. Getting timings right. Then having the machine chew the tape :-[
As a busier adult I can't say I miss doing all that. I like being able to whip up a new playlist in a couple of minutes.
Quote from: nimrod on Aug 08, 2014, 05:13 PM
Does anybody besides me still love em ?
I do! Good ol' analog sound. The equivalent of vinyl LPs without the clicks and pops. Reel-to-reel is even better. You get to hear what the artists heard in the studios when recording was done on tape.
I grew up on tapes, the EMI Beatles albums had the track listing in a different order to vinyl and CD so when I got CD it blew my mind as on tape Revolver started off with Good Days Sunshine instead of Taxman, the White album finished with Revolution 9 instead of Goognight.
I had 'Revolver' and 'Sgt. Pepper...' on reel-to-reel. I'll bet those would be rare collectibles now.
:)
They got me through barracks life in the Air Force in the 80s. Also, I used to teach fitness classes back in the day and made my own mix tapes.
I don't really miss them. I like CDs and vinyl a lot more.
Cassette tapes are a definite nostalgia trigger for me! I have a whole basketful of cassettes filled with memories. My dad bought me a portable cassette player when I was young and I was always interviewing my poor family members and just generally being a pest with it. My cousin had one too and her specialty was hiding it during family dinners. She was sneaky but everyone got a good laugh from those. My music mixes were obtained by holding the microphone next to the stereo, radio or TV. Very high quality stuff!
I came across this one not too long ago. I recorded it from my sister's copy of The Second Album. Then at the end it inexplicably has the clearing of the temple from Jesus Christ Superstar, all in glorious awful. This was made long before the Broadway show. LOL
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there was always a big decision to make, should I buy ferric, chrome or...............................metal ? ;D
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As you can see that thought never even crossed my mind!
Quote from: nimrod on Aug 09, 2014, 06:32 PM
there was always a big decision to make, should I buy ferric, chrome or...............................metal ? ;D
All I cared was that TDK did amazing things to my system
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Kev, mate, thanks for starting this thread. I have cassette players at home and in the car, but you've prompted me to recommission my reel-to-reel tape deck...
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Quote from: In My Life on Aug 09, 2014, 02:37 PM
This was made long before the Broadway show. LOL
I guess time is relative. What you considered a "long time" when you made that cassette was really just one year. The album was released in 1970. Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway in 1971.
I'm pretty sure of these dates, Kelley, but you can always verify that with Jesus on Facebook. ;)
If there anyone out there who call recall if there was a fuss made over the changing of the order of tracks on Beatles cassettes?
In 1987 there was much debate over whether the first four LPs should have been re-issued in mono (which they were) or stereo, but changing the track order is scandalous!
It seems incredible to me that EMI should have thought it appropriate (whatever they might have said about running order times) to re-arrange, say, 'Revolver', and I can't believe there wouldn't have been complaints.
I still have my high end Nakamichi cassette deck Barry, 3 head with dolby C
with a Maxell metal cassette I would put it up against any non remastered cd
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Ok we're feeling the love here for cassettes. Is anyone going to put their hand up for 8 track?
Quote from: Moogmodule on Aug 10, 2014, 03:07 AM
Ok we're feeling the love here for cassettes. Is anyone going to put their hand up for 8 track?
off topic moog
:P
Quote from: In My Life on Aug 09, 2014, 02:37 PM
My music mixes were obtained by holding the microphone next to the stereo, radio or TV.
God I used to do that. Plonk the cassette player next to the stereo or radio and press record. You couldn't even call it Lo Fi. More like No Fi.
It was such a revelation when I got a cassette player that was integrated into the stereo and would record properly.
No one ever bought a vinyl LP and thought, 20/30/40 years later, 'Yikes! I wish I'd bought the cassette tape for the same price.'
'Let It Bleed' with a poster, or the cassette? You choose!
At least, I don't think they did, and a casual look at eBay suggests that it wouldn't have made much financial sense either.
Quote from: oldbrownshoe on Aug 10, 2014, 02:26 AM
If there anyone out there who call recall if there was a fuss made over the changing of the order of tracks on Beatles cassettes?
In 1987 there was much debate over whether the first four LPs should have been re-issued in mono (which they were) or stereo, but changing the track order is scandalous!
It seems incredible to me that EMI should have thought it appropriate (whatever they might have said about running order times) to re-arrange, say, 'Revolver', and I can't believe there wouldn't have been complaints.
Just about every cassette had a different track order.
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Quote from: Moogmodule on Aug 10, 2014, 06:06 AM
God I used to do that. Plonk the cassette player next to the stereo or radio and press record. You couldn't even call it Lo Fi. More like No Fi.
It was such a revelation when I got a cassette player that was integrated into the stereo and would record properly.
I remember one of the most exciting purchases I ever made was a portable stereo radio cassette (with double cassettes)
suddenly being able to record anything off the radio and being able to copy cassettes from mates, the library etc
Its a wonder I didnt wear the thing out , in fact I think I did ha2ha
Quote from: nimrod on Aug 10, 2014, 08:05 PM
I remember one of the most exciting purchases I ever made was a portable stereo radio cassette (with double cassettes)
suddenly being able to record anything off the radio and being able to copy cassettes from mates, the library etc
Its a wonder I didnt wear the thing out , in fact I think I did ha2ha
Kids today have it so easy pirating music. Just send a bloody file. Lazy Gen Y sods
Quote from: nimrod on Aug 10, 2014, 08:05 PM
I remember one of the most exciting purchases I ever made was a portable stereo radio cassette (with double cassettes)
suddenly being able to record anything off the radio and being able to copy cassettes from mates, the library etc
Its a wonder I didnt wear the thing out , in fact I think I did ha2ha
The pinnacle of my cassette use was one of those Teac four track recorders. With bouncing down you could maybe squeeze it into a six or seven track before quality loss overwhelmed. You then mixed down to another cassette player.
Quote from: Moogmodule on Aug 10, 2014, 08:41 PM
The pinnacle of my cassette use was one of those Teac four track recorders. With bouncing down you could maybe squeeze it into a six or seven track before quality loss overwhelmed. You then mixed down to another cassette player.
I had a Fostex one of those moog, great machine for 4 tracks !!
Quote from: Moogmodule on Aug 10, 2014, 06:06 AM
God I used to do that. Plonk the cassette player next to the stereo or radio and press record. You couldn't even call it Lo Fi. More like No Fi.
It was such a revelation when I got a cassette player that was integrated into the stereo and would record properly.
Ha ha! I'll bet we were both doing that around the same time. But you asked for a hand-up for 8-tracks. That's what my first stereo had and I made all kinds of tapes to listen to in my parents' car and then mine. No one could have mistaken them for professional but they beat the radio stations I had to choose from! Come to think of it, I've never really lived anywhere with a decent radio station. Hmm..
Quote from: Hello Goodbye on Aug 09, 2014, 11:16 PM
I guess time is relative. What you considered a "long time" when you made that cassette was really just one year. The album was released in 1970. Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway in 1971.
I'm pretty sure of these dates, Kelley, but you can always verify that with Jesus on Facebook. ;)
I meant the show Beatlemania Barry. I made the tape when I was 8 or 9 years old and labeled it "Beatlemania". That would predate the Broadway show of the same name by 6 or 7 years, a very long time in kid-years.
Quote from: In My Life on Aug 11, 2014, 12:21 AM
Ha ha! I'll bet we were both doing that around the same time. But you asked for a hand-up for 8-tracks. That's what my first stereo had and I made all kinds of tapes to listen to in my parents' car and then mine. No one could have mistaken them for professional but they beat the radio stations I had to choose from! Come to think of it, I've never really lived anywhere with a decent radio station. Hmm..
8 track interested me because until I moved to the US as a teenager I'd never even heard of it. If they had them in Oz at the time that must have been a very niche market. It was vinyl and cassette only. The house we moved into had a couple of 8 track players and some tapes. I was always fascinated how the tape would click over to the next side midway through a song. I assume they must have had advantages in sound fidelity since they seemed an ungainly medium.
Quote from: Moogmodule on Aug 11, 2014, 06:31 PM
I was always fascinated how the tape would click over to the next side midway through a song.
Yeah, that was always strange but like I said in another thread that just became part of the song for me.
No, I don't miss them. I had fun making some mixed tapes, but then the memories of taping and rebuilding my copy of Sgt. Peppers enters the mind. Nice to be able to just skip to the song you want now. Give me CD's all of the time.
Quote from: tkitna on Aug 14, 2014, 10:35 AM
No, I don't miss them. I had fun making some mixed tapes, but then the memories of taping and rebuilding my copy of Sgt. Peppers enters the mind. Nice to be able to just skip to the song you want now. Give me CD's all of the time.
Thats the ting though Todd, now its too easy for you to skip While My Guitar so you never appreciate its greatness ha2ha