RIP Lou

Lou came around just in time to rescue me from ever having to listen to 8-track. RIP. 

RIP Lou you made thousands of Deadheads very happy for decades bless you.

"Here  . . . . you like this album . . I made a cassette recording of it for you.  Enjoy."

And to some degree, that carries on today with sharing of music files.

Many thanks to this man for giving this to the masses.

The only thing i can say to that is it is all about the recording not the format it is on.

There was something about making mixed tapes where I would even put thought into the title I made for it after I wrote the song list on the sleeve that was somewhat lost with CD-RWs. I didn’t miss the unraveling and heat sensitivity when a cassette was left in a hot car and the sound quality of taped typically wasn’t anything to write home about, but I still enjoyed them until cd stores starting popping up in every mall. It feels like tapes went away much more long ago than they actually did. They really are associated with a general cultural era for me when everything somehow seemed much more innocent and generally optimistic than today (even if the pandemic hadn’t hit the world).