I feel, since I am new here, that I always have to issue the disclaimer 'sorry if this has been done before...' but here goes. Would like to hear from the gang on your favorite "cassette tape" -- circumstances around making or receiving it, songs on it, et al.
Mine is as follows: Just got a job at Dominos Pizza, circa 1985. A friend/older employee had me do deliveries with him for training/observation - and he had a tape given to him by a college roommate who was from Detroit who used to record radio mixes from the one and only Jeff Mills aka The Wizard (on WJLB, I believe). So, being from Ohio, I'm used to slower rap/funk (Dazz Band, Roger/Zapp, The Deele, etc.), and I get in his car (A Renault LeCar -- remember those?) , and there's all this ultra-fast disco/electro Kraftwerk type music playing -- basically the mid-80s Detroit Techno sound. I had never heard anything like it. The Wizard would literally throw anything in his mixes -- old cartoon sounds, movie dialogue, he would cut back and forth between two of the same copies of records (which were always ridiculously pitched up). I was instantly hooked. So I'm like, dude, I GOTTA dub this. He told me whatever I do, do NOT break it. Of course, not long after I got into my '79 AMC Spirit, there's tape unwinding all over the place! Next time we met at work, he could instantly tell from the look on my face I broke his beloved tape. We were cool though. Long story short, some months later, long after that job, I fixed the tape with scotch tape and redubbed it to another cassette, and TO THIS DAY... I rock the sounds of The Wizard on my boombox.
Your stories???
Mine is as follows: Just got a job at Dominos Pizza, circa 1985. A friend/older employee had me do deliveries with him for training/observation - and he had a tape given to him by a college roommate who was from Detroit who used to record radio mixes from the one and only Jeff Mills aka The Wizard (on WJLB, I believe). So, being from Ohio, I'm used to slower rap/funk (Dazz Band, Roger/Zapp, The Deele, etc.), and I get in his car (A Renault LeCar -- remember those?) , and there's all this ultra-fast disco/electro Kraftwerk type music playing -- basically the mid-80s Detroit Techno sound. I had never heard anything like it. The Wizard would literally throw anything in his mixes -- old cartoon sounds, movie dialogue, he would cut back and forth between two of the same copies of records (which were always ridiculously pitched up). I was instantly hooked. So I'm like, dude, I GOTTA dub this. He told me whatever I do, do NOT break it. Of course, not long after I got into my '79 AMC Spirit, there's tape unwinding all over the place! Next time we met at work, he could instantly tell from the look on my face I broke his beloved tape. We were cool though. Long story short, some months later, long after that job, I fixed the tape with scotch tape and redubbed it to another cassette, and TO THIS DAY... I rock the sounds of The Wizard on my boombox.
Your stories???
