........There was no internet or YouTube? You had to buy a record and play it over and over again to learn a song? Yeah, I still do that. 
Remember When........
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Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
I don't do anymore. Youtube has a speed setting for an easy way to do that.........There was no internet or YouTube? You had to buy a record and play it over and over again to learn a song? Yeah, I still do that.
But I do remember, yes I do. Nice not to have to so it that way.
CoyotesGator
Ambassador of Reptilian Rum Bar Affairs
We waited for the song to come on the radio and taped it.
Kerry Brown
Ambassador of the Great Northern Bar Jams
It would take a week or so to make a decent mix cassette.
CoyotesGator
Ambassador of Reptilian Rum Bar Affairs
Definitely.
They were almost like gold to us back then.
They were almost like gold to us back then.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
ANd you could carry the latest and greatest cassette cases in your jacket pocket ........with smokes or tokes or .... ludes.........and no one ever suspected at school............ if asked you SHOW the "RATT" cassette (with actual CASSETTE in IT) and folks moved along....the Aerosmith Cassette case had the "goods" ............................er so I have heard......
eclecticsynergy
Ambassador of Electric Synergy
Quite a few of my favorite songs were ones I discovered completely by accident, on albums I bought for another tune.
Buying one tune at a time, most today will never have that experience.
Buying one tune at a time, most today will never have that experience.
I remember the first time I heard the Def Leppard album Pyromania. I recently put it on loop and played along...like totally rediscovering it again. Good memories...
I sold hollowed out (discarded) textbooks for $10 as a kid...
Staying up all night watching MTV for that certain video...
Or go "Clank!" in the middle of a song!
I still listen to a song and figure it out by ear first...
Kerry Brown
Ambassador of the Great Northern Bar Jams
My friend’s older brother had a 340 Cuda six pack. He could eject the 8 track tape with his gas pedal. We’d drive around town laughing our heads off telling him to boot it so we could see the tape fly out.
Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
I just dont play vinyl anymore and don't play the same section over and over on that way to figure out parts of a solo anymore.
Gotta figure much of the song by ear. Onljne waaaay too much is simply wrong.
In the studio, a lot of my work is when a songwriter hums me a tune and wants me to create a riff from the hummed song idea, so I rely on my ears a great deal...
Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
That's how our gal writes too, for the most part. Lots done by ear amd I seem to be sensitive to out of tune guitars. Just one string a touch out makes me cringe. Thus all the wrong stuff online
