Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for July 24, 2022

I still have my collection that I’ve recorded when I was 12-14 (and digitized them even). Honestly, I’ve been listening to these and thinking “What on Earth was I thinking????”

How did you avoid that irritating habit of DJ’s to talk over the intro and extro to every song!!!

Old lady got a boom box, on her head she got curly locks, and she wears compression socks, her old man works at the docks, I’ll stop, so please don’t throw no rocks!

That’s an oddly specific standard.

I have a lot cassette tapes I recorded off radio and off other cassettes. But the recordings I appreciated most were the big and small reel-to-reel tapes from the 1960s. I wish I had a way to play them again, but they have probably deteriorated too far by now. On them are the voices of my grandparents, my little sisters, and barking of my dog — among a lot of other things thought important at the time.

On my heavy, bulky Concord, I recorded much music classical and popular. One thing I recorded off the radio was a 1969 (WCFL or WLS) program called “The History of Rock and Roll.” I think the latest group discussed was The Bee Gees.

The radio ads were an annoyance in recording at the time, but it would be interesting to hear them again. Along with the comments about the music itself. There’s been a lot going on with rock and roll since then — you think? (—

Most pop songs don’t have an ending. . .they just sort of get lower and lower and lower until they completely fade. Amiright?

Aunty, FM radio still exists, or you could listen to Sirius/XM. Do you really want to go back to Disco, watch the Beatles break up, relive Watergate, long gas lines, playing games on the Atari? You might want to reconsider there Aunty, you just might want to reconsider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWhozyOoZQ

We’ve been “stealing” music since before it was illegal.

I had that same problem until I got a dual deck tape recorder. I learned a lot about tape editing in that time.

during the 70’s in Cleveland Ohio radio station wmms would give hints as to record album they would play without interruption so you could get your tape machine ready.

I kinda like the improvement in musical choices. You can make your own playlist now.

auntie’s conveniently forgetting all the other anxieties that we dealt with at that age…

The cut finger cracking the cassette open to splice the tape.