Beginning my Wall of Cassettes 

Since 1983 my dad's been taping music off the radio and still does to this very day. Has no plans to quit. Over 2200 cassette tapes stored in boxes of 10 each. (Equals over 3000 hours of analog music!) Only ever used 3 different cassette decks in all that time. Everything is indexed in a box of index cards. I made a spreadsheet database for him last summer since he was 10 years behind in indexing.

You can’t have a wall of cassettes with out The Wall

I have a friend in Chicago that tapes everything .Hes got about 6000 cassette tapes that's all he uses.he will tape it or get friends to tape it for him.got a nice rig too with just cassette decks.he has taped of radio too hes got all the dr demento shows taped from the loop in Chicago. Hes got some cool stuff. Enjoyed your video/

The good old days when radio DJs would actually spin the tunes from vinyl and tape carts. I remember recording music onto those Memorex tapes from Rock 102 Buffalo back in the late 70s.

2:30 Pink Floyd! Was not expecting to see that in your collection to be honest, pretty cool though

Good video, It got my OCD going haywire, I kept shouting "REWIND YOUR TAPES!" at my monitor. lol

My last new cassette was Jackyl back in 1992 and my first new CD was Offspring Smash in 1994.

As a 17-year-old, hearing that 1974 recording is super trippy, it sounds far different from my expectations

Cassettes are on there way back!!!Hold on to those gems!!!!

I like the way your "wall of cassettes" turned out. If ever you feel like uploading it, I'd like to see the Video8 organizer video. (My neighbors gave me a nice wooden wall mounted cassette holder after their garage sale concluded, only I have no idea where it went.) I'm interested in knowing more about the music you used while loading the cassettes into their new home, though I expect a look through the comments will answer that question.

I love cassettes, especially Chrome tape ones that sound terrific

Great collection..I used to love collecting tapes making own compilations, and CD's followed briefly by Minidiscs. Now a days, streaming doesn't have the same appeal.

Wow, that WPIX recording is something special!! If you haven't done it already, that really ought to be digitally archived! I'm pretty sure my Mom had or still has each of those Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, and Bryan Adams cassettes.

special thanks for broadcast 1974

Wow, that 1974 recording really put some nostalgia in me! I was actually a month away from turning 4 then! Wow!

I'm a collectors of things and this video really relaxed me 😊

Just scored a lot of 200 cassettes and 44 8tracks on market place for 75 dollars all good stuff too like Classic Rock, 80s / 90s Metal, alternative, etc So I plan on buying 2 of these for all of them and a 8track rack I will do a video on it when I set it all up. Awesome video man! Love your stuff!

No way dude! I went to this garage sale up in this little town one time and found that exact same memorex cassette tape box except it had this gold yellow colored maxell tape on it! I got it for 25 cents

Ha, looks just like my room. 8 tracks and everything!

I thought i had over 1000 cassettes in carton boxes. but after building a huge cassette rack then arranging them i realised they're almost 700 only. Now almost 30% of my shelf is empty. However, before it was hard to find any cassette i want to listen but now it's super snappy to pick any.✌️

That's a nice tape rack you picked up, and you can't beat that price. I find it interesting that you didn't purchase your first CD until 1999. I got my first CD in 1985, although I also continued to buy tapes as well in to the early 90's as they were the format of choice in the car.

Just found your channel, very good advice and knowledge. I’ve collected vinyl and tapes for over 45 years and still find I need more ha ha I have to say your talk over is very calming and not done at hyper talking speed. Keep up the good work. Jim 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Old video, but you've got some great music there! Alan parsons, REM, Toto

I still have a crapload of cassettes that are mostly in one big blue case, the rest of them a little scattered about. I haven't been able to get that fortunate at the thrift store lately though. Oldest cassette I have is from the mid-1970s; most recent is probably from 1992. Music acquired in last 10 years has been CDs from merch tables at shows I've gone to, or downloaded (usually Bandcamp or iTunes). And in the "crapload" I'm also counting mixtapes given to me or ephemera (nothing interesting there, though). That 1974 bit of radio broadcasting is seriously interesting! And not only that, it sounds great!

thank you for taking us through your collection, really enjoyable watch.

It's 4am an I'm watching a guy place cassettes into a rack....

I was born in 91 so I can remember a time when my dad and I would go to the music store and decide if we wanted cd or cassette. My last new cassette was probably Rammstein Mutter from 2001. I also had quite a few Weird Al Yankovic tapes. We used alot of tapes because my dads truck only had a tape deck and he drive it until 2005.

I am addicted to that rectangular shape ...

cassette era is nice. recording songs from fm radio is my hobby during the 90s. quality is very good especially when using decent cassette player. sony component is my bestfriend. now my cassete tapes collection is kept in box. Now its different i just download mp3s and save it on hard drive. i more like it. but still miss the cassette era. its part of my childhood.

nice collection excited to see new video

Always AMAZED by the content of this channel! 👌👍

Somewhere, I have an old Scotch blank w/ an unusual case. About the same thickness of the clamshell, but has a little spring-loaded drawer on one long end of the spine. One pushes a little springy-plastic catch on the edge & it pops out. The cassette, however, is just a low-end C90, type 1.

I'm a proud owner of my dad's '70s cassettes, along with my own collection. His are in a big wooden Budweiser crate and include many of those non-standard cases that fold open. Great vid,.

I used to have 8 large IKEA bookcases full of VHS movies on them. I then downloaded better quality 'flash' digital versions of those 1,000+ movies, and put them onto DVD discs, kept in 3/16" thick ultra-thin CD cases (and kept a copy of the digital movies on four large 3.5" hard drives), and then I only needed one large bookcase. A few years later I downloaded even higher quality MP4 versions of those movies, and keep them all on one 2TB external hard drive (with a backup drive as well), so I didn't even need that one bookcase with the DVD movies on it. So in less than 10 years I have gone from a basement full of movies, to one small 2.5" hard drive that can fit into my pocket. In the same time, my entire music cassette collection has gone from a collection of 120, down to MP3 versions of the same songs that fit on a USB flash drive that is the size of my thumbnail.

i have about 3 tapes i recorded back in 2008-2009 with pop station. man i listen these really often. the music was good, and best of all it was recorded by me. Also the ads are funny because some dont even exist anymore

Keith Urban looks so young on that album!

Back when I was recording on cassettes I always sought out the Memorex tapes with the weird bottom-opening case you demonstrated because I thought they were really cool and futuristic. I don't have any audio cassettes anymore, but I have plenty of Digital8 tapes so I will definitely be needing a wall rack for those. Very cool video.

Techmoan got me into collecting. Managed to get myself a nice 1990s pioneer CT-447. I like it

That is awesome! It looks really cool, like a radio station. I used to hang my cassettes on the wall like that, but it was a couple of Case Logic racks that only held 30 tapes each, and I have more tapes than that... so I store 45s in them sideways, which holds all my 45s nicely. I also had the same type of wall rack, but for CDs. I just use carrying cases and drawers for my tapes now, and a couple of wire CD racks. It's cool that you're starting to get into 8 tracks too... hopefully you find a case for them! If you want something to hang on the wall, you could probably build something yourself out of 1/4" plywood. It would be cool to find a rack that a radio station used to hold carts too, but I can't imagine those would be easy to find now. That's a really awesome aircheck at the end too! I love finding unlabeled blank tapes because sometimes there's old airchecks on them.

Such a cool video.I have two of those type of wall racks.I loved that 1974 radio aircheck too!

Its a nice shelf,and you could build those yourself to store more tapes,like bigger shelfs. Very cool! The Wall of cassettes!

I've got well over 100 cassettes myself, incl some of those Memorex ones but a very important question (!) how many tapes of AM STEREO do you have ?!

YEAH tdk-90s great cassettes !!!

Niiice! I've been meaning to get a rotating cassette holder for all of mine.

I made the switch to CDs around the same time you did. I don't remember the last new cassette I bought, but the first CD I ever bought when it was brand new was the South Park album Chef Aid. I still have it and I still listen to it.

I have a cassette tape that dirty's up the heads on the player every time I try to play it. The heads get dirty and then the sound gets muffled. I was thinking of having it professionally transferred to CD sometime, just so I could play it. It was found in an old house back in 1981 or 82. Most of my own tapes are older than that. I have a portable player that plays well but re-wind and fast forward don't work well. I assume it's because it needs a new belt. I've had it since the mid 70s. Amazing sound on that 1974 stereo tape! Wow.

wonderful!

VWestlife, I want to add to the pleas to make that WPIX 1974 tape transferred to digital. What you have is known as an "Aircheck", which is the recording of the station with nothing stopped or cut out of it. These are definitely rare IF nothing was edited! I should know....I've come across cassettes where people have taped radio stations, but they've been completely worthless because they stop the tape constantly when the DJ starts talking. Aaargh! So take care of those if they are intact COMPLETELY!

Waoooo Very nice my friend I also like cassette tapes I have 60 cassettes of a singer I like so much. Almost 40 different cassette tapes I have two cassette radios😁

Wow. Time travel back to 1974!!

7:21 Me too! I only collect cassettes if it's non prerecorded, and if prior to 2000.

I was born too late. Im still sad i don't have any casettes but soon im gonna buy three Eminem casettes.

That REM Green tape is great

Thats a sweet setup. Keep it going, and keep it growing!!

Holy crap! Bloody hell, that's awesome! :D Please, with cherry on top, can you send me the full WAV or MP3 recording of that 1974 air? I just can't resist that stuff, it's so interesting! I'm so jealous! :D I wish I'd have a functional tape deck, but one 1991 Kenwood KX-3030 I've bought for $25 was a crapstain with broken switching mechanism and assy belt. (Audio was great, but it destroys tapes. What are those people doing to this stuff? And there was a functional deck for that price, wth.) And since my enormous collection 1988 till 2002 tapes came from my momma, I just can't use that, that would be my moral suicide. (I use my 1993 Phillips walkman to play them.) And our country doesn't have anything like Goodwill or anything like that. Just ass and eBay bootlegs. :/

OK, now I have to build my on Wall of Cassettes :-)

Dang, that might be a better idea than my drawers. I ran out of shelf space, but I do still have wall space left. Hmm! I've got lotttttt of tapes. :)

Ive always wanted to come across some radio station recordings but never have.

There was a period in the 90's where I bought both cassettes and CD's until I switched over exclusively to buying CD's around 1999 or so. The first CD I bought was a title by jazz guitarist Al DiMeola called "Orange & Blue" some time in the mid 90's. The last cassette I bought was a greatest hits compilation by Motley Crue in 1998.

I've got all my records in the order that I got them. From album #1 Artur Rubenstein "The Chopin Waltzes" (Christmas 1966) to album # 598 Nina Simone "The Hits." It's a shame that after I die, the records wll be all split up. I hope they go to a collector who appreciates them.

You are supposed to stack them vertically not horizontally, so they don't droop and damage the tape after time/heat.

Hope to hear more of your old recordings! Cheers

I wonder how that little Agfa made its way from germany over to the US... This is definitely a German retail product. Agfa-Gevaert never sold articles with the name "Magnetonband" outside of Europe.

finally waited for you to do a video cassette tancks, I have many almost triple your i think making a video of my collections soon jejeje

I just found a smaller cassette cabinet for my growing collection. I still haven't filled it yet though. There are some great smaller artists out there now making some but they can be quite expensive compared with CDs now sadly! Great to see such a large collection! Even just finding decent type 1 can be difficult these days and so damn expensive. Still, I like the format and continue to collect them. I think they sound great personally, but only on good hardware, which is thin on the ground these days.

That's a lot of cassettes my friend.

Awesome, I started my cassette collection also.

I remember "PIX Penthouse" with adult mood music in the '60s but did not know WPIX became a rock station in the '70s. It eventually was a light jazz station. I have some cassettes over 50 years old.

I'm going to build a wooden one to hold 200. Can't wait to see them on the wall and nice and tidy.

I think the Thrift Store loves to see you so they can get rid or their inventory! :) The good old days of cassettes. Encoded all mine in mp3 format and then the trash they went. That's a nice collection of tapes you have their. WPIX-FM sounded pretty good pre-DSP based audio processing and the time where there were real live breathing human DJ's.

"Cassingle" -you survived the 90's (LOL)

just a suggestion bud.... turn your tapes so the actual memory ribbon tape is not facing light... it will help keep them in better shape. Also you should run them to the end and then back to the beginning then tap them a bit on the edge of a counter or something to keep the memory tape from sticking together. and remember keep them away from any magnets Including Speakers. some people know this stuff I know but I'm just trying to help :O) I have two 100 racks... myself but everything is in boxes at the moment... Some 600 Cassettes - not going into my 33's 45's (singles came on 45's till about 1988 then they started making cassette singles) I also have a few 78's........ and BLOW YOUR MIND i have 4 99 &1/4 records... Used at KQW in 1912 This was San Jose California's first radio station. My Grandpa was a Electrician that owned his own company and wired the radio station as well. Awesome little video Thanks!

Looking good

Do yo have that NY radio recording digitised? I make vintage looking radios with modern electronics that have sd and usb slots and it would be awsome if i can load that radio programs into these sets. :)

My first CD was Faith no More the real thing and the last was Bobby Rush live in 2004, cassettes were always free back when I was a kid/teen people around me replaced theirs with cd's... Now CD's are for free 👌🙏

2:58 A friend of mine let me look through their cassette collection and had one of those memorex tapes with that case. It fascinated me!

Those memorex cassette cases from the 70s-80s were really strange. If i remember correctly, the tapes also came with little white hub plugs to keep the tape from unwinding but they were easily lost.

I should get something like this I have like close to 1000 or more tapes all in boxs and don't want to chuck them out this will be a good way to make space.

the nice thing about finding shelves is you dont have to worry about bad RAM or it having a virus on the Hard Drive :)

That was neat. By the way what music was that when you were putting up the caests?

Ah great memories!

I think Ray Glasser has more, abt 6 months ago or so, a friend of his of loaded his collection to Ray! His collection is rather impressive!

I've tried this but I have more than 200 cassettes, and also more than 1000 VHS tapes... good job

Good for you. When I went on maneuvers the cassette was the choice. They took a beating and stood up well. Kv4li

The 73 in the Guy Lombardo tape is the prefix Decca used

For a time Marantz was with Superscope also.

I have 400 cassettes in those wood storage racks, they work real good.

Where do you buy your tapes? Also what do you record on them to have so many XD

my cousin has 3 wooden bookshelves full of tapes,CD's and old vynil discs. He also has one of those IBM laptops that they use to diagnose McClaren F1 supercars but it lacks the harddrive and a bunch more stuff.

Nice collection! Shame I got rid of most of my recorded cassettes from radio recordings, especially since they don't use the old bumpers between songs.

Que buen compilado de casetes me trae recuerdos

Can you upload the entire wpix air check onto RU-vid?

Is that WPIX recording of the same Jim Quinn as in Pittsburgh’s Quinn and Banana, Quinn and Rose and also amateur radio operator W3DEX?

Please, can you make a video of that 1974 tape playing?

Love our cassettes don't we

I hated the fact that when I bought my last boombox, before I was an avid Amazon customer, Best Buy had NONE of them with even one cassette deck. It was all mp3 this and MP3 that, along with a cd bay. Now, at least amazon has tons of boomboxes with both cd and dual cassettes.

nice collection :) Also please do upload a video about those video cassetes. I'd love to see that.

1:15 and a RU-vid legend is born...

Those laser line wall units get snapped up fast, I mostly find laser line towers for cd or cassette, or those rotating towers, which I hate, take up too much space

I have my cassette collection too.. i love listening music with cassette then streaming music digital