I always had a lot of fun making mix tapes. Of course, there were those frustrating times when the song you chose for the last one on a side would be just a few seconds too long and the tape would run out.
More often though, there would be a little chunk of tape left and I hated to leave it blank. There were a few short songs like Elvis Costello's Welcome to the Working Week I would sometimes fall back on, but what I liked to do more was create my own funny stuff to run out the side.
One little gem that worked out great was the time I alternated Slim Whitman's caterwauling from the beginning of the song Indian Love Call with cartoon ghost noises from a kid's record. Hilarious!
There was a Frank Zappa recording that had the sound of a stylus skipping and grinding across a record that I loved to use when making a tape for a friend. I would begin with a few seconds of some goofy song that I knew they would hate, then the stylus would skate across the record and end up right at the beginning of a real rocker.
I miss those days.
More often though, there would be a little chunk of tape left and I hated to leave it blank. There were a few short songs like Elvis Costello's Welcome to the Working Week I would sometimes fall back on, but what I liked to do more was create my own funny stuff to run out the side.
One little gem that worked out great was the time I alternated Slim Whitman's caterwauling from the beginning of the song Indian Love Call with cartoon ghost noises from a kid's record. Hilarious!
There was a Frank Zappa recording that had the sound of a stylus skipping and grinding across a record that I loved to use when making a tape for a friend. I would begin with a few seconds of some goofy song that I knew they would hate, then the stylus would skate across the record and end up right at the beginning of a real rocker.
I miss those days.