Would the GD phenomenon ever have happened without this man?
Lou Ottens, Father of Countless Mixtapes, Is Dead at 94 https://1clickurls.com/ZNCR5uT
I coincidentally just rented a documentary about him two weeks ago:
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape. Highly recommended.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4236310/
Would the GD phenomenon ever have happened without this man?
Lou Ottens, Father of Countless Mixtapes, Is Dead at 94 https://1clickurls.com/ZNCR5uT
On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 2:35:51 AM UTC-5, Band Beyond You wrote:
I coincidentally just rented a documentary about him two weeks ago:
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape. Highly recommended.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4236310/
This documentary didn't mention the Grateful Dead or our tape trading community.
Yeah, and...?
On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 1:41:12 AM UTC-5, Band Beyond You wrote:
Yeah, and...?
What?
It was noted some time ago that there was a significant about of blank tape sales to
fans of the Grateful Dead, according to a wholesale group, who in turn
got their info from retailers.
Something like 15%.
yoker56 <reistet...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 1:41:12 AM UTC-5, Band Beyond You wrote:
Yeah, and...?
What?
It was noted some time ago that there was a significant about of blank tape sales to
fans of the Grateful Dead, according to a wholesale group, who in turn
got their info from retailers.
Something like 15%.
It’s not what the movie was about.
The Grateful Dead accounted for some sales at some point among some people, but otherwise were clearly just a blip fraction in the overall scheme of things in the cassette narrative and trajectory, as the NYT quoted: “Philips says *100 billion* cassettes have been sold worldwide.”
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