CASSETTE TAPES...

[warhawk]

hello fellow chrome domes..... i was cleaning out my closet the other day and i discovered on old shoe box filled with old cassette tapes & even some "cassingles".  remember them?  however.... i think i will keep the old shoebox just 2 keep the memory of those days.

so... how 'bout u?  with all the technology with dvds, cds, mp3, ipods.... do u still have any cassette tapes or better yet cassingles laying around your home?  i know i'm not the only one.  what's your story?

WARHAWK

[Timmay]

Mel...I can top that.  This summer I was down in the basement cleaning out...and i came across one of those 45 record holding cases.  I think it holds about 100 records.  If i still had a turn table I would play them for my kids.  These are records I had bought when  I was younger..just right before the cassettes came out.  I have a whole box full of cassettes also.  The box is the size of box that holds 6 1-gal water jugs.  I have yet to go thru them all, just off the top I seen in there Van Halen, ZZ Top, Kiss, Poison, Whitesnake, Jimmy Buffet, Tom Petty. Oh the memories!

[SLYinKC]

I've got a whole closet full of cassettes and singles.  And better yet, the last time I was at my parents, I came across some old 8 tracks (remember those).  My mom and dad have an old stereo that actually has an 8 track player in it.  I was trying to explain to my boys what it was and how it worked.  Boy do I feel old now.

[Timmay]

ITS BECAUSE YOU ARE OLD RICK!  LOL

[warhawk]

ITS BECAUSE YOU ARE OLD RICK!  LOL

WARHAWK

[warhawk]

timmy....how can i 4get those records?  i actually still have some but there R safely hidden in my parents attic.

rick.... i remember vaguely those 8 tracks when i was a child.  heck...i remember my parents owning those old stereo with record player / 8 track/ radio that was the size of a big azz wooden furniture.  heck it was furniture!!!

WARHAWK

[Timmay]

yes those old consoles...even the television sets were a piece of furniture.  With the red velvet cloth covering the front of the speakers.  You know how they had to lids...open one end for the stero and tape players and the other for the turntable.  I use to lay on part of it with the turntable lid open playing my records.  I believe my uncle still has my grandparents stero.  I also remember it had sliding doors on the front...and my grandmother would always keep candy down there in bags.  my brother use to hide in there and eat all the candy too.  Wow that is going way way back

[schro]

I still have quite a few cassettes and a few records. A couple of years ago, I borrowed a friend's cassette deck and connected it to my CD Burner and recorded a few of my favorite albums. Unfortunately, the CD copy of the cassette does not break between songs so when you play it, it shows up as one track for the whole album instead of 1 track for each song.

With EBay, I've been buying a few of my old favorite cassettes on CD. I'll eventually toss the ones I don't listen to anymore.

[MagmaBabe]

God, you didn't even wanna get me started on this!! 

I still have loads of cassettes... including ones by Pink Floyd, Bon Jovi and Alexander O'Neal, amongst others 
and as for vinyl, amongst the ones that I haven't dared throw away, are Madonna (Like a Prayer, 12") The Who, Who's Next album (love that one) and I also have a queen album.

there's plenty more, but we wont talk about those 
although I'm sure that there's plenty of you with skeletons in ya closet when it comes to musical taste...

[SLYinKC]

yes those old consoles...even the television sets were a piece of furniture.  With the red velvet cloth covering the front of the speakers.  You know how they had to lids...open one end for the stero and tape players and the other for the turntable.  I use to lay on part of it with the turntable lid open playing my records.  I believe my uncle still has my grandparents stero.  I also remember it had sliding doors on the front...and my grandmother would always keep candy down there in bags.  my brother use to hide in there and eat all the candy too.  Wow that is going way way back

That is exactly like what my mom and dad have.  And it still works.

[Timmay]

Magma....you still have Micheal Jackson vinyls dont you ......LOL

[Razor X]

ITS BECAUSE YOU ARE OLD RICK!  LOL

That's a bit rich coming from someone who can remember a time before cassettes were invented.  They were invented in 1962, BTW ... so who's old now??

[Razor X]

....and I also have a queen album.

I wasn't aware that Her Majesty had a recording career.  Was that part of that whole British Invasion thing back in the 60s?   

[JDog]

I remember the 8 track tapes. I have a few Foghat and Skynrd 8 track tapes as well as 10-20 cassette tapes.

[Razor X]

I replaced most of my cassettes with CDs a long time ago.  Most of the cassettes I have left are copies of CDs that I made to listen to in the car.  I don't have a CD player in my car so I still occasionally listen to cassettes when I'm driving.  Most of the time it's just the radio, though.