Cassette 1

Hi, I'm so pleased you choose my photo! Here's my point

Personalization, remix, reinvent. We already did all
this stuff. I used to create personal compilations for my (lovely ;) girlfriends, everyone unique and special. It was not the music: it was the story I was trying to tell

And I collected music inventing new ways of listening. I had a tape all fulled with different versions of "Round about midnight" of various players - kind of 14 or 15. It's been *extremely* useful when studying jazz. And all my friends asked one copy

Most of them, of course, bought the famous Davis + Coltrane album. Piracy? The majors should give me a percentage for the sales! :)

Storage and maintenance: most of my cassettes came from original LPs. I bought them, I played once for recording, and then stored them, accurately sealed, and went on listening to tapes - except when I had time to stay, alone, at the stereo, full volume, listening to the original vinyle, with all his lovely craps

We had a great "scarcity of resource" - no money as teen. And it was difficult to meet people with the same taste, and socializing

But we did it. Thanks Miles, Pat, Ornette, Brian, David and all the others for their music, that inspired so many nights among friends saying "have you heard this?" "how he did it?" "this is great!", and so on

Now iI happens less often, but the spirit never change ;)