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When the label on the reel to reel says "too poor quality to transfer"

13/10/26, 8:02 pm2 reposts61 likes

It transferred fine, and it sounds fine! But the tape basically fell apart, and so that was that, the last run through a machine for this 50 year old tape. I'll make sure it exists in a dozen places by tonight.

Jason Scott

@textfiles.com

This is a 1975 Friar's Dinner/Roast of George Burns and Walter Matthau, clearly in support of the movie The Sunshine Boys, which came out that year. They sound vibrant. Burns is 79.

Mike Snow

@lakeeffectsnow.bsky.social

You ever do the baking process for old tapes you know you only have one crack at?

Jason Scott

@textfiles.com

I do

R. Scott Rogers

@arrscott.bsky.social

I’m usually shocked to learn how young celebrities were when I was a kid. But with Burns I’m always shocked when I’m reminded how old he was when he was a celebrity in my youth in the 1980s.