the jam box tapes

a new project of mine. 100 different tapes with a collective title, the jam box tapes. all handmade one at a time on a cassette jam box in my living room. well, kind of my kitchen too but that's neither here nor there.

found a shop with a tape selection in bend oregon

in bend oregon there is a cool store called ranch records, right downtown. they had a pretty good selection of tapes.

dave prewitt on rediscovering his tape collection

I  just had to replace my car. On my birthday, that's another creative story, although - this car's replacement had a cassette deck. I was, honestly, originally, a bit bummed. I thought "damn I can't use my ipod". I realized immediately that this indeed was the power of satan in today's music attempting to gain another for it's fiery onslaught of my radio dial. I knew I had some stash somewhere. I went to the garage, dug out THAT box, which became boxes - of old cassettes.

a possible aesthetic for acoustic music.

here's an idea for an approach. let's say you are a singer/songwriter/guitarist, or have a small acoustic type band, possibly based in some form of roots american concept, and you have some songs and you want to make a record.

i don't know how this happened

but i'm sitting here juking to a new cassette of my music that just came out.

the tascam four track

wikipedia article on the tascam four track


ahhh, my beloved cassette four track. here's the deal if you see one of these, and it works, you better snag it. they sound great!

practical uses for an old cassette jambox

just like old motorcycles, reel to reel machines, banjos, accordions, or any mechanism of that ilk, if you see an old one laying around and it works, snag it.