Early Jaffe & McGee Tape 8
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Intermagnetics C60 Position I Normal Bias tape. Not previously stored in a case. Erasure safety tabs intact. These were removed on 10/09/14. This cassette had obviously been used numerous times. On the label there is Debbie’s
handwriting that shows that Blondie: Eat To The Beat, The Clash: London Calling, and Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Damn The Torpedoes had been recorded onto this tape at one time, prior to Woody Guthrie. No recording dates are give; I am going to guess that it was sometime in 1983.
Side A (Listen above) of the tape starts out with two split-channel primitive experimentation attempts at overdubbing or multi-channel recording. This was probably done by playing a Casio VL-Tone with a cable plugged into the left RCA input jack on our Pioneer stereo cassette deck; then rewinding the tape and playing another Casio part via the right input. These could have been done by playing two VL-1s at the same time. Not sure. We bought a second VL-1 at some point, but I don’t know when. It might be likely that these were done with two VL-1s at the same time, because if we could afford a stereo cassette deck, chances are that we could afford a second Casio VL-1.
10:48 until tape side end -- from the second side of Woody Guthrie’s Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2. [not in the audio player above]
Side B (Listen above) starts out with what sounds like a mono shoebox cassette recorder recording of Hal doing a poetry recitation along with a Casio VL-1 programmable melody (melody used on “Slipping Away” on Viscera’s In A Foreign Film album). Poor sound quality and feedback.
Followed by more split-channel Casio VL-1 experiments, like those that were heard at the beginning of Side A.
After the second Casio piece on the side of tape there’s a fragment of Woody Guthrie that peeks through for a second or two, possibly the song “Pretty Boy Floyd”. [not in the audio player above]
A third split-channel Casio piece.
Woody again for a few seconds.
Then a fourth split-channel Casio piece.
Woody again.
A fifth split-channel Casio piece.
A sixth Casio piece.
Back to Woody - “I Ain’t Got No Home”.
handwriting that shows that Blondie: Eat To The Beat, The Clash: London Calling, and Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Damn The Torpedoes had been recorded onto this tape at one time, prior to Woody Guthrie. No recording dates are give; I am going to guess that it was sometime in 1983.
Side A (Listen above) of the tape starts out with two split-channel primitive experimentation attempts at overdubbing or multi-channel recording. This was probably done by playing a Casio VL-Tone with a cable plugged into the left RCA input jack on our Pioneer stereo cassette deck; then rewinding the tape and playing another Casio part via the right input. These could have been done by playing two VL-1s at the same time. Not sure. We bought a second VL-1 at some point, but I don’t know when. It might be likely that these were done with two VL-1s at the same time, because if we could afford a stereo cassette deck, chances are that we could afford a second Casio VL-1.
10:48 until tape side end -- from the second side of Woody Guthrie’s Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2. [not in the audio player above]
Side B (Listen above) starts out with what sounds like a mono shoebox cassette recorder recording of Hal doing a poetry recitation along with a Casio VL-1 programmable melody (melody used on “Slipping Away” on Viscera’s In A Foreign Film album). Poor sound quality and feedback.
Followed by more split-channel Casio VL-1 experiments, like those that were heard at the beginning of Side A.
After the second Casio piece on the side of tape there’s a fragment of Woody Guthrie that peeks through for a second or two, possibly the song “Pretty Boy Floyd”. [not in the audio player above]
A third split-channel Casio piece.
Woody again for a few seconds.
Then a fourth split-channel Casio piece.
Woody again.
A fifth split-channel Casio piece.
A sixth Casio piece.
Back to Woody - “I Ain’t Got No Home”.