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oldschool
never had a tape recorder when I was young but did spend a lot of time listening to the NYC station WNEW FM live concert broadcasts. listened to lots of KBFH concerts in the privacy of my room at my parents.
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MileHigh
Then you graduated from hand-held microphones and those small mono cassette decks to your first stereo component cassette deck. The cheapest front-loading (cool factor) cassette deck was the Pioneer CT-F2121 and I got mine in 1976 and I think the price was $200. Then when TDK Super Avilyn tapes came out at about the same time you were in heaven.
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oldschool
never had a tape recorder when I was young but did spend a lot of time listening to the NYC station WNEW FM live concert broadcasts. listened to lots of KBFH concerts in the privacy of my room at my parents.
Speaking of tape recorders and WNEW-FM:
I did have a cassette deck and did listen to WNEW-FM (NY City) about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time I listened to WPDH-FM (Poughkeepsie, NY).
Both stations came in very strong in Sullivan County, NY, where I lived.
This was in the era of 1975 to 1984. Before that I lived in the western USA going to college for 4-1/2 years.
I have numerous recordings on cassette, mostly from WNEW-FM, including the night John Lennon died. I flipped on the recorder within a minute of when the news was announced, and recorded for over an hour. I still have the tape.
My favorite DJ was Scott Muni on WNEW. He was the station manager and had the afternoon show. I believe he was also the station manager for WABC-AM in the 1960's in NY City also.
WABC-AM was the biggest in New York in the era of 1960 to 1969. Another big DJ from WABC-AM was Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow). Listened to this station starting in the pre-Beatles era, and all through the 1960s.
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TheGreek
Get ready to laugh .In the 70's I had a Panasonic cassette player and recorder which I managed to jerryrig with a earphone adaptor to be able to plug my Gibson Les Paul thru it into the stereo to amplify my guitar (sounded like shite) before I got my first proper amplifier which first was a Fender Blackface Twin which I had for a year and a half and I only had it on loan from a Bouzoki playing Greek who had to go away for little bit and a early script logo MXR Phase 90 (which I still have and use to this day ) Then I got a Silverface Fender Twin reverb (which I still have but now I use a Marshall 2555X into a 2551 AV cab .Pretty wild thinking about this
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Silver Dagger
I had one of these which were groundbreaking portable stereo cassette recorders and recorded many, many mainly London gigs over the years - from the Stones to The Who and lots of other bands.
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Kurt
1964 kid here...
I could record on 8-Tracks with this beauty and I thought I was the COOLEST!
Wish I still had it.
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ycagwywpmd
The decks you show Green Lady look remarkably like the one we had at home in late 50's/early 60's. Phillips I think). It was a gift from my gran, and my parents used it to record the Saturday morning radio programme 'Children's Choice' which morphed into 'Children's Favourites' while we were at Saturday morning dancing, at the very cinema I later saw my first Stones concert in 1965. We had great fun with it, but it met its demise as it kept eating the tapes......
PS sorry to barge in like this, OK I'll admit if, I'm nearer to 70 than 60......
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Silver Dagger
I had one of these which were groundbreaking portable stereo cassette recorders and recorded many, many mainly London gigs over the years - from the Stones to The Who and lots of other bands.
Have any of your recordings made it out into the public domain?
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ycagwywpmd
The decks you show Green Lady look remarkably like the one we had at home in late 50's/early 60's. Phillips I think). It was a gift from my gran, and my parents used it to record the Saturday morning radio programme 'Children's Choice' which morphed into 'Children's Favourites' while we were at Saturday morning dancing, at the very cinema I later saw my first Stones concert in 1965. We had great fun with it, but it met its demise as it kept eating the tapes......
PS sorry to barge in like this, OK I'll admit if, I'm nearer to 70 than 60......
Me too... Yes, it was a Phillips.