What tapes have you been playing ?

The Best Of Cameo

 

Playing a mix tape from a friend - Kelvin. Playback on my Sony TC-K666ES and nicely-recorded to a premium BASF Reference Maxima TP II 90.



Nando.

 

I can not remember which Sony ES 3-head deck I had in the 90-ies when I spent hours recording CDs and LPs unto cassettes. Definitely not 666, cassette was center-placed, and I would have remembered the number...

Little did I know that:

 

I know where Kelvin / Paula got the idea for that J Card

The Old Grey Whistle Test was the BBC's serious Rock programme, concentrating on live performances in a bare studio, in complete contrast to the miming, fancy sets, and dancing girls on Top of the Pops.

 

I organized a Mix Tape Giveaway among a few friends and in the name draw, I drew Kyle's name. The theme of the project was recording to cassette, exclusively, from vinyl, in the decade of your choice- 1955-1965, 1965-1975, 70's, 80's, 90's, etc.

Kyle chose the decade of 1955-1965.





Nando.

 

Ice Cube - The Predator

 

Caron Wheeler - UK Blak

 

Ten City - Foundation

 

I bought this tape in a local Charity shop and played it today.
I had to stick the felt pad pad onto the metal spring first.
It was still in between the spring and tape but wasn't stuck down at all.
These cassettes obviously weren't made to last.

There again it is approaching 50 years old (although I realise, given the Carpenters popularity it might have been made after 1973)


Anyway it is probably older than Karen ever got to be.
Her voice lives on, on a tape that probably hadn't been played for decades.
I wonder what people will be playing music on in another fifty years ?

 

Franco Battiato
La voce del padrone .. ( 1981 )

 

Diggin' Deeper 3 - The roots of acid jazz

 

Gladys Knight and the Pips - The singles album

 

That is a nice deck tocool, certainly not mickey mouse lol

 

Thanks Radio Raheem, how are you doing?

 

I'm clinging to the wreckage Chris but still here bro...bought several more boomboxes lad so all good....guess what i haven't blown any speakers of late lol

 

Good to hear you have not blown up anymore speakers.

 

using a pioneer 8800 on my missions with twin eq toocool sounds great, need to get the 9800 as it's a dual mono bro....only running at about 30 p/c that is more than enough, what have you been upto of late my friend

 

Louis Armstrong - The Essential Satchmo

 

Stan Getz - Greatest Hits

 

dogie & me enjoying JB