1978 Atarah’s Band Kit Audio Cassette

This was another of my Mom’s tapes, which she would, I’m sure, have acquired in connection with her job as a music teacher. It’s the Atarah’s Band Kit audio cassette from 1978 – a lively and engaging educational product aimed squarely at kids.

Joe Satriani – Surfing With The Alien (1987)

Joe Satriani’s Surfing With The Alien was an instrumental rock guitar album showing off some truly stunning fretboard pyrotechnics. I was just starting to pursue the electric guitar at a more advanced level when this album was released, and after seeing the unmitigated praise it was getting in the guitar magazines, I bought it.

1970 ITT Polydor Musicassette Demonstrator

Since I began raiding the ‘junk boxes’ for old audio cassettes to photograph for this blog, I’ve been desperately hoping to find something from the 1960s. I came within a cat’s whisker today, with the discovery of this ITT Polydor Demonstration Musicassette, from 1970. I don’t know how this truly vintage artefact got into my family, but I suspect it had something to do with my Mother’s job in music education. The material pre-recorded onto the tape comes from a variety of 1960s acts, but it’s all ‘easy listening’ – a genre in which my Mom never showed any particular interest. I’m assuming, therefore, she received the cassette as some sort of free giveaway.