R.I.P.s

[left]

Hell knows how hard I tried to always find the perfect-length song(s) that fit exactly on that side's length

And mum knows how many times I run upstairs like my ass was on fire when the punk show was beginning and I hadn't yet prepared an empty tape to record it... big "shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-" moments.

Not surprising that later on I spent days trying to download an mp3. Seemed so f- easy in comparison

[Low D]

Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, age 94.

The first truly portable on-demand audio source, and the first consumer-recordable - I'm sure we were all kings & queens of the mix tape back in the day (I know I was).

Song: C30 C60 C90
Artist: Bow Wow Wow
https://youtu.be/81c1L8SrXcU
https://youtu.be/YSFSEflt7lU?t=1677

I preferred C60 for mixes... 45 not long enough to move through the well crafted arc, 90 too much commitment. Used to get 'em at the BiWay, which has gone the way of the cassette & Mr. otters itself...

[DzM]

Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, age 94.

The first truly portable on-demand audio source, and the first consumer-recordable - I'm sure we were all kings & queens of the mix tape back in the day (I know I was).

Song: C30 C60 C90
Artist: Bow Wow Wow
https://youtu.be/81c1L8SrXcU
https://youtu.be/YSFSEflt7lU?t=1677

I preferred C60 for mixes... 45 not long enough to move through the well crafted arc, 90 too much commitment. Used to get 'em at the BiWay, which has gone the way of the cassette & Mr. otters itself...

I always favored the C90. Used to buy Maxell by the case (images tell me that they were probably XLII-S, XLII, and MX). I thought they looked bad-ass and solid (sort of a matt-black, not much rattle from the components). For all I know the tape itself was shit. I wouldn't have known any difference. But man I loved the assembly. And I like the 90 because it was fewer cassettes I had to carry in my bag, less flips. And the tape seemed more robust than the 120.

Of course that was when I was feeling flush. When I was feeling less flush I'd recycle tapes endlessly, even well past the point that they iron oxide had picked up so much residual recording that it was like having a never-ending soundtrack of the background radiation of the universe. That Dolby-II button on my Walkman in late high-school was a god-send.

[firehazard]

Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, age 94.

The first truly portable on-demand audio source, and the first consumer-recordable - I'm sure we were all kings & queens of the mix tape back in the day (I know I was).

Song: C30 C60 C90
Artist: Bow Wow Wow
https://youtu.be/81c1L8SrXcU
https://youtu.be/YSFSEflt7lU?t=1677

I still have a drawer full of cassettes, most of them lovingly mixed back in the day. I no longer have a functioning cassette player. Every so often Mme firehazard tries to get me to chuck them out. But I just can't.

And I agree with DzM. C90 were best. C120s were a bit crap, and tended to jam. You'd try to unravel them with the end of a pencil but they were never the same.

[Low D]

C60 was for flirting, C90 was love (or 2x records copied... I first had the first 4 Pogues LPs on 2 cassettes - LPs borrowed & taped on mom's stereo - she had a TEAC tape deck).

I still have a drawer full of cassettes, most of them lovingly mixed back in the day. I no longer have a functioning cassette player. Every so often Mme firehazard tries to get me to chuck them out. But I just can't.

Hah i'm in the same boat! I've got stuff doesn't exist in any other format! Still got a small box of 'em, but no player. Meaning to get one of those stand-alone digital converters, shoulda been more proactive before the deck died (i did transfer a few things).

[Fr. McGreer]

I always favored the C90. Used to buy Maxell by the case (images tell me that they were probably XLII-S, XLII, and MX). I thought they looked bad-ass and solid (sort of a matt-black, not much rattle from the components). For all I know the tape itself was shit. I wouldn't have known any difference. But man I loved the assembly.

I never considered the strength of the tape itself until i got a really posh Kenwood tape player for my first car in 1987. When you pressed rewind it would slowly build up the speed to what seemed like warp speed and then before it got back to the beginning of the side it would slow down and stop very softly. Oh how cool it was.

[Low D]

Sally Grossman, who helped manage acts like Janis Joplin and The Band with her husband Albert, has died . She was 81. That's her on the cover of Dylan's 'Bringing it all Back Home'.

[firehazard]

Yaphet Kotto, actor, aged 81.

Among many roles, much enjoyed him in Homicide: Life on the Street. Which seems unfindable anywhere these days.

[DzM]

Yaphet Kotto, actor, aged 81.

Among many roles, much enjoyed him in Homicide: Life on the Street. Which seems unfindable anywhere these days.

He never did get that bonus from the Wayland-Yutani corporation.

[Low D]

B.B. Dickerson, founding member, bass player & sometime vocalist for War, has died. He sang lead on "The World Is a Ghetto," his low end drove 1975's "Low Rider". B.B. was 71.

[Low D]

Bad week for the Vancouver punk scene.

Writer, rabble-rouser, and former D.O.A. manager Ken Lester has died.
https://www.straight.com/music/former-p ... ester-dies

Winnipeg-raised singer Gerry-Jenn Wilson, best remembered here on the West Coast as frontwoman for Vancouver punk provocateurs JP5, has died in a house fire.
https://www.straight.com/music/vancouve ... -housefire

[Low-ish D]

The long weekend at Bernie's is over, they have buried the corpse of Prince Philip.

Still though, you have to feel bad for the Queen, losing her husband & her cousin all on the same day.

[Frances]

The long weekend at Bernie's is over, they have buried the corpse of Prince Philip.

Still though, you have to feel bad for the Queen, losing her husband & her cousin all on the same day.

I know zero about the British Monarchy, but... they look happy enough in this picture from President Obama’s instagram.




I was watching a documentary on YouTube of a so-called “inbred” family of adults in Appalachia that was interesting. One of the more severely affected brothers developed non-verbal communication. Should send the link to a family member who is a speech pathologist.

[soulfinger]

I knew very little about the British monarchy also. The BBC & ITV have done their best to remedy that; we have now had seven weeks of endless, continuous tributes to Prince Philip. All other TV programmes appear to have been abandoned. The procession of heartbroken royal biographers tearily professing their admiration is beyond tedious. Apparently he won World War Two, the Boat Race and invented penicillin. He also set the world land speed record and was man of the match in the World Cup final.

[left]

I’m sure if ever Shane writes a new song again it’ll hint at Phil’s death.