One More Saturday Night

My $2,700 smartbed stuck in vertical on high heat canceled out by my $1,500 CBD-infused mattress resulting in exactly 8 hours of REM sleep

RIP OZZY youtu.be/yWAzKaqJzj4?...

had a real crusher of a day over here. Can’t believe it’s taken me all these years to learn that Tesla covered Truckin’ on their acoustic album

it’s the end of an era, on this day in tapes

what an incredible date for Jerry music

yeah, looks like 2 versions of the same '72 broadcast. jerrybase.com/events/19720... '73 studio broadcast was on 7/8 & has very different list. jerrybase.com/events/19730...

really seems like February 6 is a great day for hot jams based on the evidence provided by plumbing the depths of the Jerryverse, Merle quadrant.

Sundays are for a lot of things but in this house Space Music continually reigns supreme

The ultimate expression of the western United States in 1970 found themselves exporting their particular strain of American excellence to the gateway to the west, St. Louis, on this day in tapes.

breaking news: phish is good

tired: Zep getting into The Lord of the Rings and writing songs that barely have anything to do with it wired: Hawkwind getting into Elric and having Michael Moorcock join the band

colossal day at Tapes HQ as the much anticipated Grayfolded cassette, socks and coffee from @imprec.bsky.social has arrived. Absolutely gorgeous presentation of the holy scroll on the j cards and I really really appreciate the titles in being in the waveforms. Just immaculate

as the sorting process continues I am finding myself drawn to the unknowns and on this day in tapes, the unknown is a wah wah and fuzz obsessed electric bluegrass adjacent band called Seatrain feat. the guy who made the music for KidPix playing bass on a pre Little Feat version of Willin’

Facing another long standing time bomb in my life by listening to Spirit deep cuts and becoming a Randy California truther

For some reason it feels right for the Janis Joplin and Genesis sub collections to be about the same size

This is obvious in retrospect but having organized part of my tape collection by “bands descended from the Yardbirds” but the Allman Brothers is by law a part of the Yardbirds extended cinematic universe by virtue of Duane Allman being in Derek and the Domonis

listening to a Bob Seger tape from 1974 and being forced to accept that @thetrailhead.bsky.social is correct, Bob Seger is good, actually what’s next, Jethro Tull?!

a dense cloud of fuzz guitar and ambient sounds kicks things off in Stockholm courtesy of Phil Manzanera and the boys in Roxy Music, on this day in tapes

listen. If you want to spend more than 500 bucks on an L100 and more than 300 bucks on that Leslie, that’s your business. You can do that. Just know you’ll always be less of a man than me for both collecting such obscene wealth and then using it so poorly.

Todays adventure in mislabeled tapes brings us to the island of Hawaii. While labeled for today, it’s actually a June show. Either way it’s a delightfully dusty tape of the Dead in full garage rock mode, on this day in tapes

as luck would have it, the vast archive of recorded music in my possession does not just contain Grateful Dead music. Going outside but right up against the box with this Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen set from Cincinnati in 1970

just four songs from Eureka, California, surely a wonderful place to see the Grateful Dead in 1968, on this day in tapes

Do you think people hated on Deodato for the same reasons people hate on Diplo and Avici today? “Oh mf is a producer/arranfer? Making pop music? Under his own name? What a chode” -a soul jazz gatekeeper in 1973, about to smoke the nastiest clove cigarette history has ever known

aligning my 7th Chakra with space music pioneer Iasos on this violently cold morning

Fusion Friday at Tapes HQ courtesy of Billy Cobham, George Duke, Alphonso Johnson, and John Scofield and cover art as terrifying as the music is good

Fascinating piece of radio history here-I think it’s just the very tail end of the Grateful Dead hour and then a psych focused show immediately after. Excellent selections and definitive evidence of non-GD-nerd use of studio Rosemary in a broadcast. Bravo, WZLX Boston 🫡

it’s Twofer Tuesday in the Tapes Terrarium, kicking things off with two Elton John albums best remembered for two songs each

It’s been a big day for albums with credits that make you go “huh, really?” at the Tapes HQ. I do believe by the end of my life I will be able to sort my record collection based on proximity to the soundtrack and cast of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band starring The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton

Billy Thorpe is truly forgotten today. At the superposition of yacht rock, proto hair metal, and the undercurrents that would produce Eric Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughan, he boldly blazed an unneeded path upon the solid ground of Leland Sklar’s bass playing

had a very fruitful trip to the smaller location of a local vendor mall yesterday and so on this day in tapes the humble program tape takes the stage

background largely unrelated but today we are stepping back to 1979 for a second set on Lon Gisland from a case containing a ticket stub potentially from the show in question!

and so we begin 2025 by slipping through the time sheath back to 1970 and setting our sights on San Diego for a first set of wooden music courtesy of everyone’s favorite band of psychedelic cowboys

good morning friends, it is with great trepidation and unease that I join yet another social media to discuss tapes, often from this day in history. these have been recent highlights of my listening, especially this McDonald and Giles record