SG`s Rant Thread

[lofi73]

Heh…I don´t have an Ipod…Or a cellphone for that matter.Don´t need them.If I were to spend hours on a train every day or something I might consider it.

Yæh…Good ole tapedeck taping of the radio….Those were the days .Wonder what happened to all those tapes I used to have?

[likeaghost]

i love tapes almost as much as vinyl, i just had that where’s the cassettes panic as i looked for blank tapes this weekend, i found a few cheesy type one normal bias ones which are fine but i actually have a bunch still from when i bought a huge box of them for the purpose of making copies of stuff but i need to find some maxell XLIIs for the original copies of stuff, the difference is crazy at times and as is being the tape deck used in dubbing i have two and the one is crazy bad and i didn’t notice till i saw the different is volume during walkman play, man i love tapes talking and reading about tapes makes me want to stay up all night and make a mixtape, i get so jazzed up that i can’t sleep till it’s down and the energy is non-stop, is there a record for consequtive hours of mixtape making? I’d beat it falt, i could make 100 tapes in a row if i had enough materials…

[Randy Jane]

so……I do this thing where I run the radios headphone jack to my computers mic jack……and record the radio or cd’s or cassettes etc. onto my computer. So, I guess technically, there are ways to record the radio to cds….record to computer, then burn a copy. It still sounds cool because it’s coming through your stereo and then into your computer…..I guess you could then screw with the eq or sound in general somehow if you felt inclined but I like the weird crappy sound of a radio still. Personally there is nothing better than vinyl, I don’t care what they come out with, they’re not topping vinyl.

Oh, I also do not have an Ipod….never got a PDA….hand held….Gameboy advance….PSP….or even any BVD’s…keepin’ Walmarts boxers alive!!!!!

Randy Jane.

[Robert]

"severedlips " wrote:

the only device i had to play music on in senegal was an old sony walkman (casette). it held up just fine, but i did wear a few tapes out. i still have a tape deck in my car as well, and hundreds of casettes…

I´ve been searching for one of those for ages, but to no avail.
Lucky for me my Local vinyl dealer has started to sport a nice range of quality tapes, so I don´t have to search high and low for those anymore. 60 minutes to the max ! A friend of mine is working in Pakistan/Bangladesh, so I usually send him a new mix every month.
The next project now is buying a vinyl press(I have no idea what the technical term in english is for this,) with some friends. Imagine that, making your own mix on vinyl.

[rosa]

I still record from radio to cassette sometimes, SG. I can’t get into the whole ipod craze either…when I make a list of things that I need in my life, "another screen to stare at" is definitely not one of them. I don’t feel like spending hours on the computer to get my music and I don’t feel like walking around the city with little pieces of dental floss dangling from my ears, skipping through songs with my fingertip like I’m browsing some kind of catalog for the attention-span impaired. This country has a serious addiction to instant gratification and it depresses the crap out of me. No one wants art that challenges them; no one wants to dedicate themselves to anything more than a three-minute melody.

Did you see the White Stripes on Charlie Rose? Jack talks about how spoiled North American audiences are, like they act like they’re just going to a movie and expecting to be entertained instead of being integrated with the musicians in a more tangible give-and-take.

I really (maybe preemptively) mourn the loss of the ALBUM as a full work of art. It’s not just that I like the packaging and the palpability of holding something in my hand– I really think that the mp3 addiciton is a disservice to the artists who are able to realize a concept, arrange the songs in a specific order, and round it all out with visual art. Even when I make a mix CD or tape for a friend, I expect that he or she will listen to it all the way through at least once, the way I designed it. I was never part of the "digital music screws artists out of money" camp, but I do think that artists (and producers and engineers, even) are getting screwed out of a full appreciation for all their talents.

I do occasionally download live performances that aren’t available for purchase anywhere, and I’m not trying to knock the artists who make themselves available on itunes to circumvent potential monetary loss. I’m also sure there are "good" ipod users who savor a musical potpourri and want to eat up their art like it’s their last meal. Oh my god the horrible metaphors. But you see what I mean.

My problem is not with digital music– it’s here to stay, you know? My problem is the ADHD culture it encourages and the evaporation of the craft of the album. I just wish that mp3 players came with cautions, like "slow down, maybe try the whole album sometime," just like I wish cell phones came with warnings not to use them in restaurants or next to me on the goddamn bus. Guns don’t kill people, etc.

Til next time, your cellphoneless, ipodless, email-happy Rosa.

[SG]

Great post Rosa

I have no cellphone either.Maybe we`re just from the past era that this current world has left us behind.I would`nt have much use for a cellphone and maybe someday I`ll get an Ipod but for now I`ll take the discman and my big headphones when I go out no matter how funny I look Sadly my walkman is no longer working but I still have a tape deck

Oh yeah I got someone on another site into the Flat Duo Jets

[Bucky Ramone]

"SG " wrote:

the discman and my big headphones

I am using a big Sony DJ headphone with my discman as well, it gives you excellent sound quality, and a beautiful silence for my fellow train travellers as well… , besides I can’t stand those earplug thingies…

And I am still using my cassette deck because there are some decent radio stations (Belgian, German) round here that have some decent live stuff or studio sessions by some cool bands (some recent examples: Magnolia Electric Co. , Pinback, American Analog Set… )

…and, my 25 year old original Sony Walkman is still working properly…..

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