Good evening. Welcome to ‘Rewind’, the
original website dedicated to 1970s
cassette tapes.
As you may or may not know, this site
has not been updated since 1999 – it seemed like a good idea at the time.
However my scanner broke, and enthusiasm was lost somewhat. Then I lost the
login details to the webspace. I saw the site mentioned in “Mojo” magazine and
should have made an effort to cash in on this blaze of publicity, but it never
happened. Apologies to anyone who sent me scans which I never used – I’m
stupidly lazy. And then I got more interested in musical escapades – and aptly
named my ‘project’ after one of the tapes which never made it to the site… SOUNDHOG <<< Click here to visit me – there’s loads of
good stuff to listen to here.
Since then, most of the scans from this place
have appeared on other, much more comprehensive sites – usually without rubbish
captions. A quick Google search will no doubt bring a few up. Now cassettes
appear to have been consigned to the dustbin of history by people with no
imagination, but I still use them and love them, Maybe one day I’ll revisit
this place properly… on the 10th anniversary perhaps. We’ll
see. Anyway – back to the original text…
“An icon of the times. They'd be
slotted into Wien portables and plonked next to the TV to record the Basil
Brush show with added mains hum, or they'd make it to the family hifi (or more
likely, the family Pye music centre) to record the Top 20 with Tom Brown on a
Sunday night. We'd take them into the last music lesson of the school
year and snigger at the teacher's outrage as The Smurf Song mutated into
Frigging In The Rigging or something like that...
And they looked cool. All those
colours, all those shapes, all those paper labels that became unstuck when they
were left in the Cortina and jammed up the standalone Binatone player slung
under the dash... the Compact Cassette logo… All today’s tapes are
see through and boring looking... they may sound 100 times better but that's as
maybe
So here is my collection (most of it,
the ones that are still in one piece). Some are originals I bought at the
time, but most are the result of sifting through boxes at car boot sales.
I've included the covers if possible. Anyway, stick a bit of silver paper
into the hole where the erase tab once sat, wind past the leader and press the
play button...”
