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Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: warhawk on December 18, 2007, 09:56:25 AM
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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. O0
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 O0
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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!
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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.
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ITS BECAUSE YOU ARE OLD RICK! LOL
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ITS BECAUSE YOU ARE OLD RICK! LOL
:*)) :*)) :*)) O0
WARHAWK O0
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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!!! :D
WARHAWK O0
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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
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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.
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God, you didn't even wanna get me started on this!! :D
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 ;D
although I'm sure that there's plenty of you with skeletons in ya closet when it comes to musical taste...
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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.
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Magma....you still have Micheal Jackson vinyls dont you ......LOL
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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?? ;D
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....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? ^-^
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I remember the 8 track tapes. I have a few Foghat and Skynrd 8 track tapes as well as 10-20 cassette tapes.
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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.
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I have 2 milk crates in my garage filled with cassettes, all kinds of stuff in there... Zepplin to The Cure.. cant stand cassettes, never have liked them.
I also have about 200 Vinyl records (and some of those old 45's). I had some then a friend was getting rid of his, so I took them.. then I found a bunch at garage sales and just started accumulating them. You would not believe what people are pretty much throwing away. I got all kinds of old Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Django Rinehardt, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, tons of real good out of print stuff like Arthur Lyman and Martin Denny... Picked up a turntable and they all play great.
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I got rid of my cassettes, but I do have some 8 tracks lying around since I still have an 8 track player in my 78 Camaro.
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I got rid of my cassettes, but I do have some 8 tracks lying around since I still have an 8 track player in my 78 Camaro.
Do you have the feather roach clip hangin from the mirror?
and I am guessing the 8 tracks are Deep Purple and Kiss, Love Gun. I think all Camaros came stock with those.
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I have my cassette case filled with cassettes that I had back in my 65 cuda days. Have the Metallica Kill Em All first release that was on chrome tape. I still play them on my home stereo, I have a turntable also. I bought a Sherwood system years back that combined old and new at the time, just so I could still listen to some of the stuff you can't get on CD. Anyone remember Arlo Gunthrie's Alices Restaurant?
I also have the Stones Big Hits (High Tides and Green Grass) on London records, not sure the release date but they look like they are maybe 20 years old in the insert pictures... in mint condition.
My kid years back tried to do some "scratching" on my turntable with my Ratt out of the cellar album, album ruined and had to replace the needle, plus kids ass was sore for weeks!! :x!
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Anyone remember Arlo Gunthrie's Alices Restaurant?
I own the album and the movie!! O0 O0
"I dont want a pickle, I just wanna ride on my motercicle"
Arlo's great
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Anyone remember Arlo Gunthrie's Alices Restaurant?
I own the album and the movie!! O0 O0
"I dont want a pickle, I just wanna ride on my motercicle"
Arlo's great
"Rakes and shovels and im-ple-ments of destruction..."
I need to hook my turntable up to the computer and start burning the old records to MP3. I used to get the really obscure stuff that never made it into the "top 20", like Mike Curb's "Burning Bridges" (which was used as the theme song in a Clint Eastwood-Donald Sutherland movie) and "Disadvantages of You" (the music from when Benson and Hedges was allowed to advertise cigarettes on TV). There was a single "Something in the Air" released under the name Thunderclap Newman that was supposedly made by a janitor at Apple (records, not computers) who was messing around with the Beatles recording equipment at night.
...and then there are the cassettes...
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I would,nt do it but I do know a lot of Guys in London who are returning to the cassette as a useful tool to record stuff from the net i:e from you Tube etc. Unlike some stuff in this digital age, good old fashioned analouge never lets you down!
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being a kid from the 80's when i was young around 9 CD plays have been around so i don't really remember time before that, i ahve 15 or so Cassettes kicking around, and i have almost everyone of those on CD as well and on my harddrive in MP3 format. however i actually listen to the bands i have on CAssette.... Pearl Jam is still my favourite band, and still jamming to deftones, alice in chains, soundgarden and stone temple pilots.