cassette chronicles

Junk Tape

2008-04-23T00:53:00.000-07:00

Type: TDK SA-C90
Packaging: A little scrap of paper torn off the corner of a sheet of paper that says "Junk Tape"
History: Discarded 8/12/04 with the usual pain associated with pack rat-ism

Side 1

Feelies - Songs from the It's Only Life CD
Wedding Present - snippets from the Bizarro CD
Descendents - I Gotta Get The Time
Parasites - Crazy
Feelies - more from It's Only Life CD
Feelies - Good Earth CD

Side 2 (all early '90s)

Phone messages dubbed from my cassette answering machine
Phone conversation with Mike Losh where we are trying to work a record trade.
Phone conversation with Mike Losh where we are catching up after a hiatus

(Mike killed himself at the end of that year by jumping off the San Francisco Bay Bridge)

Feelies - remainder of Good Earth CD (this was obviously taped over by the previous stuff)

Burning Hell

2006-10-01T20:48:00.000-07:00

Mixmaster: Yuval
Date: 1985
Notes: Big Star tracks were rare outtakes that were only floating around by underground tape traders at the time. Visiting Food was a Bloomington, IN contemporary of The Panics, probably recorded in 1983.

Don't Ya Tell Henry

2006-09-30T21:34:00.000-07:00

Mixmaster: Yuval
Date: 1986?
Notes: More rare Big Star. By now, Dale Lawrence (ex-Gizmos) had become The Satellites and he was a singer-songwriter. It was about this time I got excited and mailed him some money for a copy of his self-released tape, but he never sent any to me. He finally made good some 20 years later when I saw him play in San Francisco last year!! He gave me a couple of his CD's.

Venus (Rhymes with...)

2006-09-29T20:57:00.000-07:00

Mixmaster: Yuval
Date: 1984
Notes: Side A has lots of rare never released stuff from Bloomington IN former punk luminaries. For some reason I taped over track 1, which was something Eric White (ex-The Panics) with "Just Another Pop Song" by The Law, who were actually from Des Moines and had nothing to do with the IN scene. It seems that most of the folks from The Gulch tired of their punk roots sometime around then and embraced a folkier tone. Yara Cluver (ex-The Panics and Dale Lawrence (Gizmos) both strum acoustic guitar and sing-not-shout their songs. Eric White does a cover of Del Shannon's Runaway. [Sorry about the dark scan...it was the only way I could get the now faded writing to be somewhat readable).

8000 Miles: Hi! (From Yu to Yu)

2006-09-27T21:22:00.000-07:00

Mixmaster: Yuval
Date: 1984
Notes: LOTS of rare REM that was at the time only garnered through word of mouth and tape trades. Rare Big Star/Chilton on side B. Apparently this was the first tape Yuval made for me after I graduated from college and moved out to California.