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Post by junkmonkey on Nov 13, 2020 17:24:05 GMT -5
Lisa Bonet born in 1967. Momoa born in 1979. Wiki sez - "In 2005, Bonet began a relationship with actor Jason Momoa. Although it was widely believed that she and Momoa married on November 15, 2007, their marriage was not made official until October 2017.[24] Bonet and Momoa have two children: a daughter born in July 2007,[25] and a son born in December 2008.[26]" Fact can be fun! "a daughter born in July 2007,[25] and a son born in December 2008.[26]"
What???
That confused me for a minute. The son was born a year after the daughter and is a year older? and they're already in their mid twenties when my first two kids (who were born before either of them) are in their teens?
Then I realised the numbers in square brackets were the remains of links to footnotes.
I was about to start a really groovy 'Jason Moama is a time-travelling hunk' theory running...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2020 17:28:21 GMT -5
It's ok if it sounds fishy, he's Aquaman after all...
And props to Lisa....if I was her age and single I'd be a cougar and go after a hot young stud too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2020 20:55:34 GMT -5
Just curious, who has the oldest music cassettes that still play? Either self-recorded or actual albums.
Was going through some things in a store room and found an unused pack of TDK SA-60s....last time I used tape was in the 90s, and mostly to grab something quick of the radio. Then I'd either go buy a single, an album, until the internet came along and I discovered MP3s....
Might put those tapes to use if only for the nostalgia....
There, I recorded it.
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Post by brianf on Nov 14, 2020 21:37:10 GMT -5
Just curious, who has the oldest music cassettes that still play? Either self-recorded or actual albums.
Was going through some things in a store room and found an unused pack of TDK SA-60s....last time I used tape was in the 90s, and mostly to grab something quick of the radio. Then I'd either go buy a single, an album, until the internet came along and I discovered MP3s....
Might put those tapes to use if only for the nostalgia....
There, I recorded it.
I have a Ram Jam cassette from the 1970's that was working about 5 years ago, the last time I had a car with a cassette played in it. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Nov 14, 2020 22:05:33 GMT -5
No idea about cassettes - I always hated them and got rid as soon as I could - though thinking about it I do have a copy of Orff's Carmina Burana on Deutsche Grammophone which I've had since about 1974 - I do have a lot of VHS tapes from the mid 80s - some of which still work.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 15, 2020 0:30:46 GMT -5
I do transfers from various media including cassettes and recently have been doing ones from as far back as the late '70s going by the off air stuff on them (circa the deaths of John Bonham and John Lennon), and then a few years ago I did some tapes, cassettes and reel to reel, of live gigs by my Dad's band from as far back as 1969, but with some of those I figured I got the last play possible out of them and that's with dismantling and replacing the little play pad. In fact one cassette I know I got the very last play, but now a lot of it is cut to a master disc for posterity. I still have many commercial pre-recorded cassettes going back to the mid '70s, many Seattle and Vancouver groups released stuff only on cassette, sometimes too there were cuts included on some big label releases not on the LP (but maybe a single b-side). Like vinyl if you looked after it, kept it out of the sun, away from humidity, tape can be surprisingly robust, mostly the cheaper ones warping and shedding can be the only real problem (and then you need someone who knows exactly how to stabilize/bake the tape).
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2020 2:16:30 GMT -5
Just curious, who has the oldest music cassettes that still play? Either self-recorded or actual albums. Was going through some things in a store room and found an unused pack of TDK SA-60s....last time I used tape was in the 90s, and mostly to grab something quick of the radio. Then I'd either go buy a single, an album, until the internet came along and I discovered MP3s.... Might put those tapes to use if only for the nostalgia.... There, I recorded it.
I have maybe a hundred cassette tapes, although I did get rid of quite a lot of mine during the 2000s. But I never stopped using them entirely. In particular, I have a number of audio books on cassette that have been listened to fairly regularly. Mostly though it's rock and pop music in my collection...oh, and I have a box full of cassette recordings of my old band from the 1990s. As for my oldest cassette, I have some mid-80s pre-recorded ones, like the Smiths' Hatful of Hollow and Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits. So, nothing all that old really. Although I still use tape, it's by far my least favourite medium. It's strengths were always portability (like in a Walkman) and the fact that you could buy blank ones to record onto. Sound quality-wise tape is woefully inferior to CD or vinyl. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 15, 2020 7:14:44 GMT -5
Just curious, who has the oldest music cassettes that still play? Either self-recorded or actual albums. Was going through some things in a store room and found an unused pack of TDK SA-60s....last time I used tape was in the 90s, and mostly to grab something quick of the radio. Then I'd either go buy a single, an album, until the internet came along and I discovered MP3s.... Might put those tapes to use if only for the nostalgia.... There, I recorded it.
I have maybe a hundred cassette tapes, although I did get rid of quite a lot of mine during the 2000s. But I never stopped using them entirely. In particular, I have a number of audio books on cassette that have been listened to fairly regularly. Mostly though it's rock and pop music in my collection...oh, and I have a box full of cassette recordings of my old band from the 1990s. As for my oldest cassette, I have some mid-80s pre-recorded ones, like the Smiths' Hatful of Hollow and Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits. So, nothing all that old really. Although I still use tape, it's by far my least favourite medium. It's strengths were always portability (like in a Walkman) and the fact that you could buy blank ones to record onto. Sound quality-wise tape is woefully inferior to CD or vinyl. The 70's called they want their cassettes back. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 9:19:13 GMT -5
I don't have any cassettes. Got rid of my last ones 2 years ago. I used to have a ton of them. I loved them for use in the car. Once CD players were dependable in cars I stopped buying them. The only media that I bought very little of were 8 tracks. I only had a handful of them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 13:00:54 GMT -5
Although I still use tape, it's by far my least favourite medium. It's strengths were always portability (like in a Walkman) and the fact that you could buy blank ones to record onto. Sound quality-wise tape is woefully inferior to CD or vinyl.
I was sometimes very surprised by the low quality of tape used to sell original cassette albums. I'd often copy an album on to chrome cassette and my finished product sounded vastly superior. 90 minute tape was more fragile than 60 min tape and yet double-albums (like Iron Maiden's Live after Death) was squeezed onto one Capitol cassette with flimsy tape. Nonetheless, mum told me she often played some her 12' vinyl remixes only once to record them, then use the tape after. That's why a lot of my parents' vinyl is still in great shape.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2020 13:31:14 GMT -5
The 70's called they want their cassettes back. Ha! I'll have you know that tape cassettes are really, really fashionable with the under 25 set at the moment. A number of big acts have recently released their albums in that format specifically because tweenagers are buying them, including Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga among others. You're just jealous because I'm cool and down with the kids.  Watch out old man, I'll be coming for your 8-tracks next! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 15, 2020 13:46:58 GMT -5
A lot of stuff I have on cassette isn't available anywhere else: the voice of my kids as toddlers, the sound of Christmas bells in the village we lived in in Germany, radio programs I taped way back when, and a few concerts unavailable on other media (particularly the very best interpretation of exultate jubilate I ever heard.) Cassettes are fragile, though, and year after year we lose another few ones... The tape stretches, or gets tangled in the player... sic transit gloria mundi!  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 15, 2020 15:08:26 GMT -5
The 70's called they want their cassettes back. Ha! I'll have you know that tape cassettes are really, really fashionable with the under 25 set at the moment. A number of big acts have recently released their albums in that format specifically because tweenagers are buying them, including Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga among others. You're just jealous because I'm cool and down with the kids. Watch out old man, I'll be coming for your 8-tracks next! Let me know when they jump on the wax cylinder bandwagon! |
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 15, 2020 20:19:28 GMT -5
I was still actively listening to and recording stuff on casettes well into 2008 when I finally got a hand me down mp3 player with maybe 750mbs of storage. IDK, I can't really explain why I like the medium when there are better ways to listen to music. I think it has something to do with the mechanical-ness of it and the very loud button presses on the machine
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 15, 2020 20:37:11 GMT -5
Lisa Bonet born in 1967. Momoa born in 1979. Wiki sez - "In 2005, Bonet began a relationship with actor Jason Momoa. Although it was widely believed that she and Momoa married on November 15, 2007, their marriage was not made official until October 2017.[24] Bonet and Momoa have two children: a daughter born in July 2007,[25] and a son born in December 2008.[26]" Fact can be fun! "a daughter born in July 2007,[25] and a son born in December 2008.[26]"
What???
That confused me for a minute. The son was born a year after the daughter and is a year older? and they're already in their mid twenties when my first two kids (who were born before either of them) are in their teens?
Then I realised the numbers in square brackets were the remains of links to footnotes.
I was about to start a really groovy 'Jason Moama is a time-travelling hunk' theory running...
The numbers are footnotes, not ages...they refer to the sources references in wikipedia. |
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