[TapeVille] Re: still exist?

  • From: "Howard Traxler" <howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 06:37:06 -0600

Yes, I with the exist question, am still interested.  I have lots of tapes: 5 
and 7 inch open reel and cassettes, that I'd like to see someone else have.  
Hate to throw this valuable stuff in the trash.  Don't even know if the thrift 
store collecters'll take it.
Howard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <programmer651@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 6:16 AM
Subject: [TapeVille] Re: still exist?


> Yes, but apparently no one has interest in the subject. Any of you reading 
> this, tell me if there's still interest.
> Tyler Z
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Howard Traxler <howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:14:51 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: [TapeVille] still exist?
> 
> Long ago, I subscribed to this list.  Wondered if it's still out there?
> Howard
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Alex HORTON 
>  To: tape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>  Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 1:29 PM
>  Subject: [TapeVille] Re: blast from the past
> 
> 
>  Yes, it is.
>   
> 
>  > From: programmer651@xxxxxxxxxxx
>  > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 13:51:36 -0500
>  > To: tape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  > CC: 
>  > Subject: [TapeVille] Re: blast from the past
>  > 
>  > Is that Royal Canadian song the one from Ren and Stimpy, with the lyrics 
> like, "Our country wreaks of 
>  > trees, our yaks are very large"?
>  > Tyler Z
>  > On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:45:44 +0000, Alex HORTON wrote:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > >Came across a tape of Jesse Dylan & Gene Valaitis on AM 640 from 1994. 
> The 
>  > >cassette contains:
>  > >- IDs and happy audience reaction from Jesse & Gene's first day on AM 640;
>  > >- Royal Canadian Mounted Yaksman song;
>  > >- explanation of how they get the caramel in the Caramilk bar;
>  > >- Jesse and Gene singing along to the jingle "When you eat your Smarties, 
> do 
>  > >you eat the red ones last?";
>  > >- a song about toast;
>  > >- a bit about a guy trying to order from a drive-through;
>  > >- various ID jingles;
>  > >- songs taped off what I assume was AM 640 including Snow "Informer";
>  > >- after a few songs, the tape started playing backward, unfortunately I 
> don't 
>  > >seem to have a means of playing the tape in reverse;
>  > >- mostly silence on the rest of the first side except points where a 
> young girl 
>  > >(I estimate about twelve or thirteen or so) accidentally pressed record 
> while 
>  > >talking;
>  > >- on the other side, Guns 'n' Roses "Sweet Child of Mine", taped off an 
> album, 
>  > >cut off in the middle with a country song taped off the radio;
>  > >- the last few seconds of another song taped off an album;
>  > >- Eric Clapton "Tears in Heaven" from an album;
>  > >- silence followed by a portion of Paul McCartney "Live and Let Die" 
>  > 
> 
>

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