i was driving along today and i was thinking how long i've been trading. it's been 10 years ago this dec. i went to and ten years since my 6th grade science teacher took me to my first "show" Ratdog. i was 13 at the time. crazy. i still feel like my collection is still a big mess that will never be complete or organized.
anyways how did everyone get in to trading and how long ago? lucky me me i never had to do cass trades. does the collection ever feel complete?
gosh...sorry about the bad grammar in the last post....
never.
it NEVER ends.....
and....roughly 16 years......and counting.......
There is a 'modify' link atop the post if you'd like to revise...
Got my first GD tapes in 93 on XLII90s and I have'nt looked back since.
about the same as matt...
first dead tape in 94...
A friend at school (Salisbury St.U) gave me a copy of Amy's Pharm in the Fall of 1993.
It was so on then, and I didn't even know it. :wink:
I got my first tape (bootleg type), GD 4/28/71, back in '82....I still have it. It's on a memorex. Back then XLII's were called UD-XL-IIC's....I still have a bunch of those....It's amazing how good an old tape that has been through the ringer still sounds....most of my analog stuff is either in the attic or at Marmar's, but you never get rid of collecting fever. And I've never had it too organized.....my vinyl is alphabetical, but my tapes are in major disarray....in a lot of ways, you're lucky you missed the analog days, cause trading was so slow.....but cassettes rock
In '92 my moms boyfriend let me borrow a good deal of cassettes (about 100) and then they stopped seeing each other and I still have all of them!!!!!!!!!!
In '92 got my first XLIIs. Still have them.
5/8/77 - :syf:
5/12/92 - :phish:
In '91 I was on a bus on my way to all-state try outs for the jazz band and a friend gave me a copy of 3/17/91 because it had the The Landlady on it and it was similar to something that we were playing our schools jazz band. I still have most of my tapes (the ones that weren't stolen) in my basement in a rack that my grandfather built for me. I no longer have a tape deck to listen to them, so I have gotten them all again digitally. Marmar is absolutely correct, it never ends and I love that it won't. And yes, I passed my audition.
I got my first GD tapes back in '91 and first Phish tapes the following year.
I collected and traded tapes up until the first hiatus.
My first shows on CD were 10-07-2000 and 09-15-2000.
Trading now is so diluted. I used to love getting a set on tape and spinning it over and over and over...
You knew that shit inside-out.
Now, most shows get listened to once.
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Quote from: August on October 19, 2007, 07:39:32 AM
I got my first GD tapes back in '91 and first Phish tapes the following year.
I collected and traded tapes up until the first hiatus.
My first shows on CD were 10-07-2000 and 09-15-2000.
Trading now is so diluted. I used to love getting a set on tape and spinning it over and over and over...
You knew that shit inside-out.
Now, most shows get listened to once.
a
I was a year ahead of Aug on GD but a year behind in Phish. I then collected in ever growing urgency until I got with some proper internet and, in 98, I got with etree. FTP servers and shn was the thing and I was downloading like crazy. Then came Furthur, then came BT and flac.
Nowadays, I might pull one show week and, of those, I might keep 20%. If I listen to it a bunch from my hdd, I'll archive it for my future media server. Otherwise, meh.
1st GD tape 12/31/78 - got it in 79
Didn't do to much tape trading cause most of my friends weren't into it but picked up a few along the way.
Once I got a PC at home (fall 03) started d/l shows from nugs.net. Things accelerated in 04 when I discovered bt, etc.
now - trying to be more selective, but...
First show I downloaded was 11/6/98 sometime in December of 98!
I started in Fall '97. My first show was Wolf Mountain 96
Quote from: MarkDavidson on October 18, 2007, 09:54:03 PM
i still feel like my collection is still a big mess that will never be complete or organized.
A. There's no such thing as complete
B. Organized is overrated. I always have a box filled with "to do" discs and about 30 downloaded shows I have to listen too in the near future (it gets worse when my favorite bands hit the road again and new recordings show up in droves). I just close my eyes and pick a show.
Started about 25 years ago with some vinyl Stones boots and Doors tapes (I still have the infamous Miami tape somewhere).
I started with Doors boots back in 94. I got my first Dead and Phish tapes in 98. :syf: 05-02-70 (someone copied the DP for me) and :phish: Farmaid 98.
i ganked my first dead tape at 13, so 93, and i fell off in that, bout the same time i started doing shrooms, b/f even i smoked top. Ph came round about the time a live one came out, so 95/96? i love it, and i will always have an analog player in my car, even if i have the same one i had 8 years ago!
i never got to see Phish, but my addiction took hold once i downloaded the 6/23/04 soundboard of off etree in the first week of September 2004.
holy shit its been three years already. wow. my girlfriend always teases me about it because i have endless spindles and cd binders in my house and my car, and that i take ten minutes trying to decide what to listen to. she just doesn't get that you can one mood to listen to the Hampton 97 Halley's Comet and not in the mood to listen to the 98 Deer Creek Halley's Comet.