hey kurt,
i was thinking, your story would make a cool "player's intro" to a movie about eric gales.
he could have been one of those boys (i think he grew up near memphis)
there are no artists without the listeners;
no listeners without the artist.
also, merry christmas my friends.
peace on this crazy ball we were born on.
Merry Christmas to you Sunil!
Kurt
also, jeff, linda,
i am super interested in your progress on taping yourselves. new thread? or i will search for old threads first actually.
my dad had a reel to reel.
i never messed with it much, actually wondering what happened to it now, gotta ask my mom.
my mom has a great story about a special cassete tape i found as a toddler.
she says she found me with a ball of tape in my hands, very happy. then she says she patiently rewound it. hahaha, i only understood that level of patience after i spent a decade cleaning up my own children's happy experiments with gravity.
mostly, i am amazed human beings don't eat their own children. haha. deep respect for mamas and acha's and others staying at home, not eating their babies. :)
my favorite experiences with tape are from was when i was around 5-6th grades. my dad bought a boombox for me. i remember putting 8 giant D cell batteries into it, and plugging in my dads giant comfortable earphones. on long car trips up the west coast (anytime anyone from "back home" visited we would go) and i would listen to ozzy, crazy train.
when i was in high school, and the sony walkman came out, i thought i should have invented it haha.
when i started classical, i learned randy rhodes was also into it.
much later when driving my oldest to pre-school, i would blast crazy train, and i think she still loves it
after 6th grade i got into my dad's old albums and listened to a few of my own, on the old record player and stereo he let me put in the closet of my room. it was like a shrine to me.
i loved the random access format of the record much more than the linear format of the tape. but its like the forums here, you have to take time fast-fowarding to get to where you want. interesting user perspective
i remember recording the radio a lot, KOME radio in the bay area. lots of doctor demento shows recorded and taped over in high school.
when i started classical i do remember recording a sor study, estudio no.5 from the set of xx. i learned that piece from the sheet music, i was so slow, hinting and pecking to find each note on the fb.
when i was finally playing at tempo, i remember actually being about to not think about my fingers and listen to what i was playing. it made me feel like i was floating. i did record myself. i think i put it away and finally listened to it much later.
i was surprised that i sounded much better than i thought.
working on doing the same now with videos. soon :)
Oh dear! My 30-something-year-old Panasonic boom box has DIED! The CD player / FM radio are still functioning, but the mission-critical tape player has failed catastrophically. It hums and makes noises, but the reels won't spin. I suppose this can be Amazon to the rescue, but I was jazzed by the idea of resurrecting an old piece of equipment / technology that was kicking around in a closet. What has become of quality, I ask?
So sorry to hear that Linda! I am still using a Panasonic boom box RX-FS430 (I have a backup too) and it still going!
Tomo