Realistic Radio Shack Low Noise Audio Cassette

This photo serves as quite a stark warning message: the characteristics an audio cassette has today are not necessarily representative of the characteristics it had when new!

John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom (1992)

It’s now getting on for a hundred years since John Lee Hooker was born. Regrettably, he died in 2001, but he surely must remain as one of the most memorable genuine and fully authentic blues artists of all time.

It’s widely felt that in the business of popular music, once an artist hits his/her forties (if not before), his/her appeal to the main sector of the commercial market will diminish to a critical low. There are exceptions, but very few artists aged well over 70(!) could have reached out to the mass market, from college kids right through to pensioners, the way John Lee Hooker did in the early 1990s.

EMI HFX C90 Audio Cassette

The things you find lurking in drawers… I was really excited to discover this EMI HFX C90 audio tape yesterday, and couldn’t wait to get it photographed and posted on Tape Tardis.