RIP Lou

"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).

Although not as wide spread as the vinyl revival, the cassette has a little bit of resurgence.

There is even a Cassette Store Day now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_Store_Day

I never left the cassette and still enjoy making tapes.  No, it's not about the sound quality, but the hands on aspect.

I was celebrating my 10 birthday in 1985. I got my first Sharp BoomBox with cassette player. My first birthday cassette (picked out by my mother) was Styx Mr. Roboto 😁.

RIP Lou!
A moment of hiss for you sir!