Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people.

uberwaltz,

"Now excuse me while I go read up on Elcaset some more ....."

So you are the one slowing that Elcaset website I am reading.

Now, sleepwalker65 gave me another homework with that TEAC open cassette. I did not forget about it. I never knew about it.

After all of this, 8-track seems like a mundane mainstream these days. Not to mention R2R. It is like a fledgling teenager.

"Next they will implant a device in your head and you will think of a song and it will play for you"

Not so long ago, I told it to another person and he said "Well, they already have that. It is called...drugs."

"...do I really want to spend $500 - $100 for something to 'pretty up' my rack?"

Yes, you do.

Just think how you could fill an additional rack up.

Sony Elcaset.
Sony DAT machine.
Sony Minidisc.
Teac open cassette.
Pioneer 8 track.

The mind boggles at the living museum of obsolete technology/media you could create.

Yes that lot makes regular cassette and r2r seem almost mundane in comparison.

Glupson,

The links are to my scans of the tape labels. The Mary Chain is the original Jugoton distribution master, sent to the former Yugoslavia. As I know Alan McGee, Jim & William Reid well, they have signed my master. The George Michael is a safety copy from a CBS Netherlands distribution/production master.

If you look hard enough, you can find little gems. There are quite a few distribution/production masters in circulation. Don’t forget in the heyday of the vinyl LP, there were lots of countries with record pressing plants. They all needed a tape sent from the record company to cut the lacquer for their own market. When the record plants closed, many of these tapes survived.

Charlie

PS Sleepwalker - the George Michael tape is stunning. My friend Chalkie Davies was his tour photographer in 1982. He said that he was an utterly charming guy. Yes, it’s the polar opposite to the Mary Chain, but I happen to like lots of different music styles.