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Post by Stormrider on Jun 5, 2018 16:00:49 GMT -6
I found an old cassette tape of JRRT reading prose and poems and story lines from The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring! A CASSETTE TAPE you may say! Too Bad! BUT … We are cutting down on our vehicles and I have my Tahoe up for sale now and am using my Mother-in-Law's car (she gave it to us before she died) which is a 1999 Ford Taurus with a cassette player in it! This is the cassette tape I found and have been listening to on my way to and from work. It is very cool listening to Tolkien's voice reading these excerpts.    |
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Post by Andorinha on Jun 6, 2018 21:07:42 GMT -6
LOL! I remember when cassettes were cutting-edge technology, and now they are rare, and players even harder to come by... Reminds me of the "floppy disk"...
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 7, 2018 4:28:17 GMT -6
Yes, technology really changes quickly now. My laptop doesn't even have a disc for it - everything is via internet and the cloud, but it do have memory stick slots. I can't load my paint shop pro art program on it since it uses a CD disc!
Tolkien's reading of Bilbo and Gollum and the riddles in the dark is cool to listen to. Tolkien changes his voice for Gollum and does the gollum and swallowing sounds so well. Reading the excerpts from Fellowship, he speaks rather quickly at times. He read some elvish, too.
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Post by fanuidhol on Jun 7, 2018 4:50:03 GMT -6
It's a miracle that the cassette tape still plays. I've heard excerpts of that recording. Very cool! And don't forget how 8 tracks were cutting edge in their time. I had an 8 track of Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson of Yes. It was an import and became rare to find in the States. Steve bootlegged a cassette of it for me when 8 tracks were out of fashion. I had held onto it even though I did not have an 8 track player anymore. Someone had permanently borrowed my LP long before this. And the cassette I had bought got eaten by my cassette player.. I did eventually order another cassette. And then a CD once cassettes were pretty much a thing of the past. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olias_of_Sunhillowwww.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLr6OM_hS4 (Yes, it is one of my favorites. I even remember the first time I heard it. Current boyfriend and I went to his friend's house. He had it. Listened to it, but don't remember anything else of that day in 1977....I'm too young to NOT remember the 60's, but, the 70's are another matter altogether...) |
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Post by fanuidhol on Jun 7, 2018 4:56:59 GMT -6
You could buy an external CD/DVD player for your laptop.
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 7, 2018 5:45:44 GMT -6
Olias of Sunhillow is very pretty. I have never heard it before. Thank you for sharing. The album would have been cool with all the pages of the story along with it. The space age sounds were cool, too.
I should look into the CD external drive so I can load my Paint Shop Pro. I've just been so busy setting up the campsite and monkeying around getting the internet. We also want to get either Dish TV or Direct TV to make Mike happy! Also I want HBO so I can see The Game of Thrones when it comes back for the finale, I think, season.
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