Comments on: Butterflies Wings and Hurricanes

By: jaytee11

jaytee11 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:47:27 +0000

Normal, CrO2 or Metal?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:11:22 +0000

..oh, and just one copy! so if you want it you’ll have to spend an hour copying it. (dont forget your dolby button)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:09:52 +0000

…I’ve decided to do our next release on double cassette with a 20 page booklet.

By: BeeTee

BeeTee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:25:07 +0000

We agree with your comments. Lots of bands in the 60s, loads of parties to go to so what better way to dance the night away. Good luck with your conference.

By: jaytee11

jaytee11 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:25:45 +0000

The effort part of putting a tape together is a really interesting point. For a kick off you had to physically get your hands on either an original, or a copy, and then for the most part had to duplicate it in real time (I never trusted high speed dubbing – seemed like witch craft) – so I guess that made the decision to steal it much more considered!! Presumably, if the process was easier and quicker, there would have been substantially more than 91 copies – although if memory serves, often part of the decision when making a copy was what to ‘tape over’, because more often than not something old would have to be sacrificed for the latest thing – as you pointed out, more storage space cost money!

It also got me to thinking about the amount of effort needed to put a mix tape together. For a kick off you had to physically collate all the music you wanted to use, then think about the order, cue everything up, and for the connoisseurs, figure out if there was enough space left at the end of the side to squeeze in one more track. It could easily take a full afternoon to fill a 90 minute cassette, and then hand write all the track names and artists in your neatest / smallest hand writing……..you’re absolutely right – in fact some of the compilations friends had made me have considerably more ‘value’ to me than a lot of the original cassettes I found. Unlike sharing a playlist, or finding out ‘what people like me like’, someone had taken the time to put something together that they wanted to share on a very individual basis.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:02:00 +0000

Just a little thought on the cassette point. Even though the majority of the cassettes were copies, you would have purchased the cassettes for a couple of quid for a pack. The format has a ‘value’ as such, even though it is a small amount, and if you want to use this format, there is a bit of effort involved when you copy a tape.

Even though you are listening to a ‘copy’, you have invested, some money and time into this, therefore giving the music you’ve illegally aquired more personal value and sentiment. That’s why you’ve still got em!

Downloading simply is not the same. There is no real time or effort involved, hence the music is seen as being less valuable, especially with the computer generation.

Thoughts please…