@hilljam@shannoncurtis Top shelf SNL skit. Way back in the 90s I called a DJ and played a snip of this skit I had recorded on videotape. Yeah, videotape. I picked a name by random from the Yellow Pages under the Wedding DJ section. Yeah, the Yellow Pages. It was early days for the internet and Shazam was just a comic book character, not the audio genie app we know today. What song is this? I asked the DJ. Without hesitating he answered “What is Love”, Haddaway.
I once recorded a bit of music I liked on my home stereo, then brought the cassette on my knockoff Sanyo walkman to Downtown Records (since bulldozed and now a Holiday Inn) to ask the owner by sharing my headphones with him. He knew immediately.
He didn't say a word, just plucked a record, put it on the turntable, and gave me his headphones, top shelf Sennheisers.
A friend from school shared this track with me through his Walkman headphones, and I was immediately hooked. Bought it the same day and anyhing else they released after that. Life changing event at the time.
They were not the first band to use the CMI Fairlight, but nobody had ever used it like this before.
When I was maybe 14, so around 1984, I picked up a cassette tape that I found on the sidewalk in Santa Rosa. That was my introduction to Art of Noise, plus George Clinton, The Jonzun Crew, and a bunch of other great stuff that wasn't on the radio. I had never heard sampling like that and it permanently changed me
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