May 22 2008
Answering Machine Message
Today I finished converting all my old programs that were on DAT. Then I dragged my heavy old Otari two-track from the basement and tried playing some old analog tapes on it, but of course it didn’t work. Most of my radio work is from the early 80s to early 90s when Scotch and Ampex were making that tape that went defective. So I’ve just ordered a toaster oven and will, with trepidation, attempt to start baking my old programs next week.
In the meantime, here’s something I found at the bottom of a box of five-inch reels. It’s the very first answering machine message I ever did, in about 1982. I got carried away producing it on my brand-new four-track reel-to-reel. Since I no longer have that machine it plays back funny, but you’ll get the idea. Just for fun.
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I also found a recording I made of kids playing in the South African township of Guguletu. Should I put that up here too?
Put it all up!!