Taping Off The Radio

Regardless, there's been crimes on both sides of this field. The discussion doesn't need to be brought up again. Its wrong, but culturally necessary, and it could've been handled better by all parties concerned. Lets not try to justify one side or the other - consumers love defending file sharing, label owners (like me) love either attacking it or providing lawful alternatives. Since I started putting up 2 buck downloads of entire albums, the consumer response has been lackluster at best. So much for everyone who'd pay for mp3s if they could.

for obvious reasons, radio did not often play frampton's 'do you feel like we do' (the 14-minute live version; i'm not sure i've ever even heard the studio version) when i was a kid. after waiting i don't know how long, i was so fucking excited when i was finally able to tape it

it still gives me chills! i mean, the song's decent enough, but also the crowd does indeed seem to be having a Good Time, and now i could listen to it *whenever i wanted*. but mostly because i miss that excitement

also when he ends the talkbox part by fading it out into WELLLLL is cool

the only other specific song i remember being so psyched to tape was 'slow ride' -- i can very clearly remember that it was on a saturday night, my parents were out somewhere, and i was reading stephen king's 'the eyes of the dragon' when it came on \m/

apparently i have a real fondness for epic seventies one-hit (ish) wonders. see also 'green grass & high tides'

i had lots of radio-"downloaded" mixtapes when i was a kid; no non-commercial radio stations though so there was usually a DJ talking through the intro or fadeout

sometimes when a song ends, i still expect it to segue into whatever song was next when i taped it 35 years ago

For real.

Our house was robbed + trashed when I was in 7th grade and they stole just the dumbest, most worthless shit. To this day, the stuff I miss the most is my cache of tapes. I used to tape so much stuff off the radio. I did manage not too long ago to find a track listing I'd scrawled out for one of them, but a 21st Century digital reassemblage lacked the inane DJ chatter and that thing where Eric Carmen sang 'turn the radio up...' and was abruptly cut off by side A ending (which is still how I expect 'Make Me Lose Control' to end when I hear it).

I had my own first real deep Beatles phase in 10th grade when I taped a bunch of stuff off an all Beatles Memorial Day weekend.

The classic rock station announced they'd be playing "Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety, so I got the tape deck ready. My first copy of Dark Side therefore contained ads for Food Emporium and Raceway Park.

I was way more into Taping Music I Borrowed From The Public Library and, later, Taping CD's I Bought At HMV And Returning Them The Next Day.

My dad had a huge box of reel-to-reels full of stuff he'd taped off the radio in Baghdad and Tehran tho.

my dad got me (at like six yo) to introduce certain shostakovich symphonies conducted by gennady rozhdestvensky on his reel-to-reel tapes

i will never forget that dude. by which i mean dmitri and gennady and my dad

my dad got me (at like six yo) to introduce certain shostakovich symphonies conducted by gennady rozhdestvensky on his reel-to-reel tapes

Awesome

My first copy of Dark Side therefore contained ads for Food Emporium and Raceway Park.

A lot like streaming it on Youtube actually