King Crimson cassette-worth anything?
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Topic: King Crimson cassette-worth anything?
Posted By: Procol Harum Machine
Subject: King Crimson cassette-worth anything?
Date Posted: January 23 2010 at 21:37
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Today, at the local flea market, they had a huge tape section, and I happened to see "In The Court of the Crimson King", so, it being only 1.50$, I bought it. Now the question is, the tape has a copyright date of 1969, the year the album was released. But, did they release a cassette of the album that year also? Thanks!  ------------- 
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: January 23 2010 at 21:41
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It's probably legit, if the case is non-clear plastic. I had cassettes of Led Zep II and an early Moody Blues, I think On The Threshold....
Sound quality was terrible. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: January 23 2010 at 22:18
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In 1969, most albums were released simultaneously on vinyl, cassette and 8-track tape. And jammun is correct. The sound quality of commercially produced cassettes was terrible. The only thing worse? The 8-track. For those too young to remember, 8-tracks not only sounded miserable but would stop in the MIDDLE of a song, any song, then click to the next "track", of which there were 8. So you'd get 7 clicks per album, and very, very seldom did any of the changeovers occur at the end of a song. Just imagine:
"Confusion ... will be my epitaph. As I crawl ... a cracked and" -- CLICK, THUNK, PAUSE -- "broken path."
Sometimes it changed literally in the middle of a word. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: January 23 2010 at 22:24
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Yeah those early cassettes were pre-Dolby, pre-metal-oxide tape, pretty much pre-anything with regard to cassette tape technology. Can you say "hiss?"
To clarify, couldn't be sonically any worse than Earthbound  ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 01:58
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Well, audiophile quality tapes in those days had to be reel to reel. We're talking really big reels. Correct me if I'm wrong. And yessssss hisssssss.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 02:07
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jammun wrote:Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 24 2010 at 10:12
Isn't '69 a bit early for an automatic cassette release though. I thought it was the early 70's they really took off. When were pre-recorded cassettes first released en-Masse?
"Earthbound" was an interim live album released in the budget "Help" label, the same label used for ELP's "Pictures at an exhibition" and a number of other stop-gap releases. I think "Earthbound2 was taken from a bootleg, hence the poor quality.
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