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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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My modus operandi in the '70s, as well. One copy for at home and another for the car. 'Cause a lot of my older vinyl was showing significant wear by then. So, my last vinyl albums are now in much better shape than my first ones. I had cassette while most were still on 8-track.
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LP's were first issued in the 1930's by CBS.
I used to buy replacement vinyl when the old ones got a scratch or wore out. Had multiple Beatle sets. Then there were the UK vs domestic issues. at some point along came heavier gram vinyl. Some LP's were pretty then and didn't last as long. Radio stations used to count the plays and then replace the vinyl.
I don't recall ever buying pre-recorded tapes other than music lessons.
Prerecorded tapes sounded like crap compared to what you could make yourself...especially in cassette form.
Back in the 4 track days, I used to go to the Micky Shore's car audio emporium and just grab a handful of what ever was the cheapest 4 track tapes out of the blow-out bin. Then managed to pull out a loop long enough to thread it through the Sony reel to reel machine that my dad had. I could only record two of the four tracks but at least could play my own mix tapes in the car.
And they're baaaaaaack.......
Ballfinger's beautiful reel-to-reel tape decks are for nostalgia lovers
For those that can't stand a digital musical world.
Ballfinger's beautiful reel-to-reel tape decks are for nostalgia lovers
For those that can't stand a digital musical world.
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I worked in a recording studio in the 70's and was able to make good quality cassette copies. Your home player also mattered, proper bias setting was needed depending on the type of tape. Not all players had this feature so sound could suffer.
One machine that they had at the studio was a duplicator. You'd stick in a master and then load in multiple blank cassettes. There may have been eight, I don't recall. The machine made duplicates in real-time or at high speed which certainly degraded the high frequency sound quality. High speed was done in the factory, they would master brighter so that when duplicated, the generations would come out as they were supposed to. That was the intent anyway.
In early Dec '85 a head hunter called me at work asking if I was interested in changing jobs. I said no but I kept his name and number. Don't know why I did.
In early Jan '86 I was told my services were no longer needed by the "... insert expletive here ..." boss I mentioned on an earlier post. About two weeks after that I had the TV on for the Challenger launch. Don't need to say anymore about that.
I looked locally for IT jobs with no luck. I called the head hunter in mid-March '86. Got an interview with Southwestern Bell Telecom and was hired on March 30, '86. I stayed with SWBell, SBC, AT&T for 23 yrs along with a couple of promotions. I had a pretty good career and was able to retire at 55.
Then around '89, I heard the "... insert expletive here .." boss got canned. He had fired my direct boss, then me, then the guy who replaced my direct boss. The big boss finally figured out the IT dept wasn't the problem. I attribute all this to Karma.
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The first album I bought on tape was Days Of Futures Past by the Moody Blues. On 15 ips reel-to-reel. My first album on 8 track was Paranoid by Black Sabbath (I skipped 4 track). Don't recall the first cassette album. Was probably a Rush album. Plus, I bought all of that on LP, many of them more than once. I also collected half-speed mastered and imported colored vinyl disks. Then lost my entire vinyl collection in a flood.
Well, I meant a "chick magnet," but thanks all the same!
Well, I meant a "chick magnet," but thanks all the same!
Like I said, your search is over. lol.
I was referring to the mass produced cassette copies made at high speed. I had a pretty darn good cassette deck back then, an Advent 201, that made great recordings and had the biasing settings available. The prerecorded tapes still sounded compromised. But the Advent worked great for whatever vinyl that I copied myself.
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The first album I ever owned from circa '67 and I still have it. Learned the bass lines on my uncle's cheap Silvertone acoustic guitar. The album has been well played. Still listenable but it does sound like chicken frying in the background.
UPS is messing with me. I was supposed to have a parts package delivered today. At 6AM it cleared the airport and was at the local depot 9 miles away, on the truck for delivery. I received an alert saying that the delivery will be delayed due to severe weather. I look outside and the sun is shining with blue patches of sky. There must be severe weather somewhere in the world, but it ain't here.
They just seem to make the excuses up.
They just seem to make the excuses up.
Not sure but this may be the first LP purchased by either me or my brother:
Somewhere circa 1962
Somewhere circa 1962
Oh, yeah....you really gotta want oneBet it costs more than a Wollensak.
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$12K-$28K
"It's on the truck". Never specifying which truck(possibly the one in Oshkosh or Tucumcari).
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