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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 15:31:28 GMT -5
bloody young people don't know what's good for them YOU'LL LIKE THAT REEL-2-REEL TAPE PLAYER I GOT FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS AND YOU'LL LIKE IT!!! my parents had one when i was itty bitty and was genuinely scared of touching it, case i broke it, but i loved listening to it still got a six vinyl singles somewhere and most of my parents albums and singles i really didn't mind the dj prattle on over the start and end of taped songs, thought it was cute to hear all those years later, think i only threw out two tapes ever ..... those cheaper ones got a little tight, i yes i did the pen thing and twirled the tape around it like a little dervish! That was an old-time radio fan's dream player: the reel-to-reel. You can fit 4+ hours of shows on it. My dad always wanted one. There are guys who figured out how to fit 2+ hours of shows on 60 minute cassette tapes. Reading Nostalgia Digest you'd get all kinds of fun tips on recording.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 16:27:32 GMT -5
I remember I used to watch a specific music channel every night at 9pm one summer, because they played the music video for a song I liked at that time and it was the only way to hear it at that point.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2018 8:17:05 GMT -5
I heard a rumor that they did that deliberately so that people would buy the album as opposed to taping it off the radio. They would also play them at fast speeds for that same reason. Or they would play a radio edit, which cut out 30 seconds of music after the bridge of a song (or mid 90s into 2000s, a rap bridge). Sometimes if I listen to Every Heartbeat, I get thrown off by the sudden cut to the bridge if it's a radio edit.
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on May 28, 2018 11:00:55 GMT -5
How about a song you really liked, and called the radio station to play it? And you always got the busy signal. How about taping a song off the radio and they talked halfway through it. Omg, both of these. One of the local rock stations has/had an hour dedicated to playing heavier metal/death metal at Midnight on Sundays called damnation alley. I'll age myself here but I remember calling just after I heard the first Slipknot album for the first time and requesting during that show and they replied that they'd never heard of them. At the time it was too heavy for the regular hours...look how far we've come. I used to try and record from radio play as well and would get SO annoyed when they would do that.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 28, 2018 11:15:26 GMT -5
I used to have cassettes that would play in reverse randomly, so you had to literally take the cassette apart and re-string the reel.
Also, you could bet your two favorite songs would be at the beginning and the end or each side.
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Post by bibboid on May 28, 2018 19:13:23 GMT -5
The tape on an eight-track would sometimes come apart at the start/finish. I got really good at splicing them together again.
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