invisible airwave Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 http://images.addoway.com/items/339/937224/339_2_8bef26.jpg Not the 1st one I owned but the first one I remember hearing. I was about 3 when that album came out and I remember my dad playing it in the car a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 QUOTE (ucsteve667 @ Dec 11 2011, 01:21 PM) QUOTE (Tony R @ Dec 11 2011, 05:35 AM) I rarely bought releases on cassette, I preferred vinyl, but loved to make mix tapes for personal listening. Thrown them all out now except for a few 70s Rush boots. Mix tapes were an artform, and I still have many of my old ones. Every now and then Ill do an hr of MY SHOW with the set list taken from such mixes. They seem to really hold the sentiment from the time they were made. My whole show is pretty much built on that format I guess One show I was considering doing before I ended my show was duplicating my favorite mix tape I ever made from 1990. Maybe if I do my show again at some point I'll do that show - it was an amazing tape. I used to be king of the mix tape - I made them for tons of people, and I went through a ridiculous amount of Maxell XLII tapes in my day. I still have probably 500 tapes - I put them on Craigslist once, but only got some nibbles. Eventually I'll put them up for sale again - I want someone to be able to enjoy them as they represented countless hundreds of hours of love and enjoyment in the 80's, 90's and even a little beyond... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucsteve667 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 QUOTE (rushgoober @ Dec 11 2011, 06:18 PM) QUOTE (ucsteve667 @ Dec 11 2011, 01:21 PM) QUOTE (Tony R @ Dec 11 2011, 05:35 AM) I rarely bought releases on cassette, I preferred vinyl, but loved to make mix tapes for personal listening. Thrown them all out now except for a few 70s Rush boots. Mix tapes were an artform, and I still have many of my old ones. Every now and then Ill do an hr of MY SHOW with the set list taken from such mixes. They seem to really hold the sentiment from the time they were made. My whole show is pretty much built on that format I guess One show I was considering doing before I ended my show was duplicating my favorite mix tape I ever made from 1990. Maybe if I do my show again at some point I'll do that show - it was an amazing tape. I used to be king of the mix tape - I made them for tons of people, and I went through a ridiculous amount of Maxell XLII tapes in my day. I still have probably 500 tapes - I put them on Craigslist once, but only got some nibbles. Eventually I'll put them up for sale again - I want someone to be able to enjoy them as they represented countless hundreds of hours of love and enjoyment in the 80's, 90's and even a little beyond... we should do a RUSH Mix Tape Off! heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 re: mix tapes http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3251/2331268479_e3b41d3d6b.jpg ^ I bought this great book a few years ago at a close-out book store (the size is about 7" x 10") you can still track it down very cheaply (Amazon/eBay/half.com etc) if you have even a passing interest in mixtapes, you'll get an afternoon out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nappy2112 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 QUOTE (rushgoober @ Dec 11 2011, 06:18 PM) QUOTE (ucsteve667 @ Dec 11 2011, 01:21 PM) QUOTE (Tony R @ Dec 11 2011, 05:35 AM) I rarely bought releases on cassette, I preferred vinyl, but loved to make mix tapes for personal listening. Thrown them all out now except for a few 70s Rush boots. Mix tapes were an artform, and I still have many of my old ones. Every now and then Ill do an hr of MY SHOW with the set list taken from such mixes. They seem to really hold the sentiment from the time they were made. My whole show is pretty much built on that format I guess One show I was considering doing before I ended my show was duplicating my favorite mix tape I ever made from 1990. Maybe if I do my show again at some point I'll do that show - it was an amazing tape. I used to be king of the mix tape - I made them for tons of people, and I went through a ridiculous amount of Maxell XLII tapes in my day. I still have probably 500 tapes - I put them on Craigslist once, but only got some nibbles. Eventually I'll put them up for sale again - I want someone to be able to enjoy them as they represented countless hundreds of hours of love and enjoyment in the 80's, 90's and even a little beyond... I bought those Maxell XL ll blanks by the dozen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ Dec 11 2011, 03:52 PM)...my Aiwa walkman(how pissed must Sony have been when we all called our many-branded portable cassette players "walkmen". Ah, the chauvinism! No walkwomen! Up the '80's!). What type of walkman did you guys have? I loved Aiwa. And it had a rewind button. My earlier ones hadn't, just FF....FFS. I had many, but my pride and joy was the Sharp CJ-520(GY) no surprise, I still own it: http://i.imgur.com/ADAEo.jpg ^ not only did it have auto reverse (endless cassettes!) and an anti-rolling mechanism (meaning that if you were walking fast/jogging, it wouldn't warble) - it had a THREE-BAND GRAPHIC EQ right on the front panel as a teenager, there was nothing cooler to me than being able to fine-tune a mix on the fly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I have about 100 or so tapes...many mix tapes...first cassette I bought was Diary of a Madman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Ghostworks I'm loving these photos! Maybe got the fetish too! First cassette I ever bought was pyromania brand new. The best was when I realized that with the right ghetto blaster I could pull music right off the freakin radio!! What a revelation that was! I guess it was like the 80's version of "stealing" music off the Internet! Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted December 15, 2011 Author Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) QUOTE (MMCXII @ Dec 12 2011, 04:57 AM) ...it was like the 80's version of "stealing" music off the Internet! Lol ^ it really was a whole new world of music opened up for me when I got my first portable deck that would record I (literally) spent hours parked in front of that thing, drawing in a notebook with one hand and keeping my finger on the pause button with the other as soon as anything remotely cool came on I'd tape it I became a fan of Rush, Men At Work, Duran Duran, Van Halen and Asia (among others) precisely because I liked what I heard on the radio, taped it, listened to it over and over, and ultimately (this is important) begged my parents to buy the album/tape for me (I have a closet-full of Rush interviews and Dr. Demento shows I really ought to dig out) Edited December 15, 2011 by ghostworks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginos Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I've got several hundred cassette tapes stored in boxes up in my loft. I have nothing to play them on but I just can't bring myself to throw them out (even though many of them are albums I now have on CD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 These are mine: http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/ab352/Babycat4/2011-12-15160737.jpg http://i879.photobucket.com/albums/ab352/Babycat4/2011-12-15161144.jpg I've had these for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fritz44 Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I remember conversations with classmates about which LPs we owned and if you said "I've got it on tape", it usually meant you'd copied it from a mate and could NOT be counted as owned. First real tape I owned was Signals and probably contributes to why I think this is the worst Rush album, Horrible format - I should have stuck to vinyl Somewhere (loft, garage, shed?) I have a cracking AC/DC recording live at the Hammy Odeon, London, featuring Bon. The original programme was am 'In Concert' show on BBC radio and I recorded the show on a TDK C90 and had to flip the tape during the extended solo in Let There Be Rock. Oh, how I'd like to have that show on a CD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielmclark Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 QUOTE (fritz44 @ Dec 17 2011, 12:46 PM) I remember conversations with classmates about which LPs we owned and if you said "I've got it on tape", it usually meant you'd copied it from a mate and could NOT be counted as owned. First real tape I owned was Signals and probably contributes to why I think this is the worst Rush album, Horrible format - I should have stuck to vinyl Somewhere (loft, garage, shed?) I have a cracking AC/DC recording live at the Hammy Odeon, London, featuring Bon. The original programme was am 'In Concert' show on BBC radio and I recorded the show on a TDK C90 and had to flip the tape during the extended solo in Let There Be Rock. Oh, how I'd like to have that show on a CD! Was it a performance from 1979? Because it's online. If you're not familiar with Usenet I can probably work something out to get it to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted December 17, 2011 Author Share Posted December 17, 2011 QUOTE (fritz44 @ Dec 17 2011, 01:46 PM) I remember conversations with classmates about which LPs we owned and if you said "I've got it on tape", it usually meant you'd copied it from a mate and could NOT be counted as owned. First real tape I owned was Signals and probably contributes to why I think this is the worst Rush album, Horrible format - I should have stuck to vinyl Somewhere (loft, garage, shed?) I have a cracking AC/DC recording live at the Hammy Odeon, London, featuring Bon. The original programme was am 'In Concert' show on BBC radio and I recorded the show on a TDK C90 and had to flip the tape during the extended solo in Let There Be Rock. Oh, how I'd like to have that show on a CD! http://www.last.fm/music/AC%252FDC/BBC+Concert+1980 ^ is this it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I still have most of my cassettes. I've wondered how they would sound now. I'd like to get a cassette player just to find out. I'll put up some pictures soon, but I can tell you that I was still buying them into the 90s. My first car, a Honda Civic hatchback, had a cassette player, and since that's where I spent most of my time and thus listening to music, I kept buying them. I must have at least 50 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 QUOTE (sullysue @ Dec 18 2011, 12:48 AM) ...my first car, a Honda Civic hatchback, had a cassette player, and since that's where I spent most of my time and thus listening to music, I kept buying them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginos Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 I remember buying Roy Harper's "Work of Heart" on cassette & it actually came with the whole album on side A and the other side blank with a blank label so that the buyer could record whatever they wanted on the B side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 QUOTE (sullysue @ Dec 18 2011, 12:48 AM) ...I'll put up some pictures soon, but I can tell you that I was still buying them into the 90s. BUMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) One of the best things I ever did was to record tapes of music that I bought in a given year. Music serves as a soundtrack to life and events and when I hear certain songs, it takes me back to those days. My first one was 1979 - 1984 and included tunes in chronological order. Then I eventually made one specifically for 1984 because there were so many songs that year that I wanted to include. It actually took up two cassette tapes! Oftentimes, I bought songs that, at the time of purchase, was already an old tune. For instance, I bought "A Farewell to Kings" on Thanksgiving Eve in 1984, so I included "Cinderella Man" and "Madrigal" on my 1984 tape. So I often think back to the fall of 1984 when I hear those two tunes. Anyway, I kept doing this up until 1995, which was probably the last year I accumulated music in mass volumes, because there was not much after that. If I play any of those tapes, say 1989, a lot of great memories come back to me of that year. Edited January 9, 2012 by circumstantial tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 QUOTE (ghostworks @ Jan 9 2012, 09:34 AM) QUOTE (sullysue @ Dec 18 2011, 12:48 AM) ...I'll put up some pictures soon, but I can tell you that I was still buying them into the 90s. BUMP Oops! I forgot to do that. Tonight, fo sho. I went through the box o' tapes a couple of weeks ago, and it really took me back. There are some really good ones in there. Next mission is to get a tape player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Jan 9 2012, 10:40 AM) One of the best things I ever did was to record tapes of music that I bought in a given year. Music serves as a soundtrack to life and events and when I hear certain songs, it takes me back to those days. My first one was 1979 - 1984 and included tunes in chronological order. Then I eventually made one specifically for 1984 because there were so many songs that year that I wanted to include. It actually took up two cassette tapes! Oftentimes, I bought songs that, at the time of purchase, was already an old tune. For instance, I bought "A Farewell to Kings" on Thanksgiving Eve in 1984, so I included "Cinderella Man" and "Madrigal" on my 1984 tape. So I often think back to the fall of 1984 when I hear those two tunes. Anyway, I kept doing this up until 1995, which was probably the last year I accumulated music in mass volumes, because there was not much after that. If I play any of those tapes, say 1989, a lot of great memories come back to me of that year. that's cool - basically, you were making 'year/s in review' comps! and 'taking you back' is right on point, ss - in fact, sometimes the running order from a mixtape was/is so ingrained, I couldn't listen to the albums the separate tracks came from without hearing my mixtape selection example: 1984 Mix - Side Two 1. The Fixx - Stand Or Fall 2. Men At Work - Down By The Sea 3. Rush - The Weapon 4. Genesis - It's Gonna Get Better... ^ whenever I hear any of those songs, I hear the song that follows it start to play in my memory - even though I've probably played 'Shuttered Room' and 'Signals' 1,000 times more as complete albums than as a mix, that mixtape running order is permanently encoded into my DNA ^ a testament to how 'important' music was to me as a young man - it was (literally) everything I've even gone so far as to recreate some of my favorite mixtape running orders in media player playlists... Edited January 9, 2012 by ghostworks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 nothing earth-shattering here, just a few Rush tapes that I picked out of the crates: http://i.imgur.com/jme0W.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/jROq0.jpg ^ the original printing of ESL cassette contains the unimportant but slightly irritating misspelling of Xanadu ('Zanadu') an odd p/g cover - the original title has been whited out (with the original 'Rush' logo enlarged but the title typed in generically) by '84, many record companies were starting to design specifically to the dimensions of the full cassette cover rather than just cropping a tiny 2.5" x 2.5" copy of the LP cover (they started getting it right by '87) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 QUOTE (sullysue @ Jan 9 2012, 11:13 AM)...next mission is to get a tape player. so - let's talk decks! here's a few from the ghostworks vaults: http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/4WAT/CASSETTE/cas_KENKX620.jpg Kenwood KX-620 http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/4WAT/CASSETTE/cas_KENW1060.jpg Kenwood KX-W1060 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/4WAT/CASSETTE/cas_jvcKDV300.jpg JVC KD-V 300 http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/4WAT/CASSETTE/cas_jvcTDW207.jpg JVC TD-W207 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostworks Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) and, oh boy... remember these? http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/4WAT/CASSETTE/cas_EMEMC1435.jpg Emerson MC1435 ^ yep - the old everything-in-one box a record player, dual well tape deck, am/fm stereo... really, these machines were my 'gateway drug' into my studio production hobby/career with a brick of blank tapes I could create anything - grab a track from an LP, another from a tape, record live from the radio (I still have tons of 'Rush' interview specials), even your own voice/music (if the stereo had a mic/aux in... and most did) I used to make my own radio shows - I'd act as the DJ, introduce the tracks etc. later, I got into 'sound collage', cutting pieces of tracks together with quick edits of am radio evangelists, children's stories 45's etc. Edited January 9, 2012 by ghostworks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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