Library staff would copy their LPs to Scotchīetween selections (hence that big box of leftover splicing tape I saw) and spool it onto anĮmpty Scotch RB-7 reel. Students to check out, instead of fragile, damage-prone LPs. Realized what these were: in the 1960s and 1970s, the college library offered the reels for I immediately began rummaging through and Overflowing with boxed reels of Scotch-brand tape. There was a large dumpster in the hallway, Anyhow, fast forward a year and I was leaving a classroom nextĭoor. Sealed vinyl copies of Neil Young’s “Everybody’s Rockin’.” Strange. There was also, inexplicably, a carton of Was dark, but I remember sitting in there, watching my friend’s band rehearse,Īnd noticing a big box of ancient, unopened spools of splicing tape. I had been to the building about a yearīefore and seen a large rehearsal space with an enclosed control I was taking a summerĬlass in the music department at Cuyahoga Community College.
COLUMBIA HOUSE AUDIO BOOK CLUB TAPES CRACKED
I can still remember the thrill ofįinding the Heathkit receiver in a box in the basement, pulling the Akai out ofĪ closet, hooking everything up, and the slightly cracked takeup reel flyingĪround the same time came a big score of used Scotch-brand reels. Underuse, and stayed there till I was old enough to discover it at age 10. The Akai reel-to-reel went into storage around 1984 due to Middle-aged relative who belonged to a record club in the 1960s or early 70s.
I believe the pre-recorded tapes were from a four programs per tape), since much of what heĬopied was Bollywood music of the 1950s through ‘70s. My Father had used the pre-recorded tapes as blank reels and recorded Remember accidentally stepping on and breaking as a child), and pre-recorded tapes of Herb Alpert’s “What Now My Love” and Theīeatles White Album “Volume 2” (both in their original boxes).
Prominently gathered at the far left, followed by the rest,Ĭan still remember the stack on the bookshelf: 3 TDK reels, 3 Maxell, 1 Scotchġ11, 1 pre-recorded copy of Herb Alpert’s Ninth (sans box, which I clearly The vinyl neatly took up one shelf of the stereo rack, with the Beatles albums System: a Garrard SL-95B turntable, Heathkit AR-1214 receiver, some ARīookshelf knock-offs (by a brand called “Creative,” based in New England) and Growing up, I was completely fascinated by my Father’s audio
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