Re: What a Find in my Basement!
- From: Dennis <drjudsjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:19:33 GMT
"Goro" <evilninjax@xxxxxxxxx> You're digging it round, when it aughta
Be SQUARE
>
>Jon Enslin wrote:
>> Today I was cleaning up our basement...basically sorting through some boxes
>> that I hadn't touched since moving in to this house over three years ago. I
>> found one box taped shut with the tape from the moving company that we used
>> when we moved from Indiana nine years ago.
>>
>> It was my casette tape collection! My once proud collection that I started
>> way back in the early 1980s with "Boston" and carried with me until I
>> purchased my first CD player sometime in the early 90s. Some observations:
>>
>> A couple of WTF moments...greatest hits albums from "The Hollies," "Bad
>> Company" and "America."
>>
>> The summer of 1989 and my obsession with Pink Floyd. It was during that
>> summer that I puchased all of their albums, including some of their really
>> early, and retroactively really bad crappe. That was also the summer I met
>> my now wife. I remember driving with her on a two hour car ride and
>> listening to "Atom Heart Mother" and "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and her
>> saying it was "great." Now if I put that on in the car it would be "turn
>> that shit off!!!" Ah, young love...
>>
>> Gotta love the typical 80s college albums: "Life's Rich Pagent," "The
>> B52s," and "The Violent Femmes."
>>
>> And some great ones that I have yet to replace with CDs: "Who's Next," "The
>> Doors," and "Zenyatta Mondatta."
>>
>> That was a great couple of hours listening to that stuff. (My eight year
>> old loves "Rock Lobster.")
>>
>> Oh, and there was also an envelope filled with debit card receipts from the
>> bank we had in Indiana.
>>
>> Jon
>
>I am amazed and dumb(founded) that the cassettes all managed to play!
>WHen i've found some of my old tapes, they had huge fuzzy patches or
>mangled parts or got chomped up by the tape deck.
>
>-goro-
it helps to restack-em before you play 'em
fast forward then rewind, then play...
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To Reply: Scrape off the end bits...
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