Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 20, 2023

Dare I say I’m with Janis. I’m no purist. I don’t need my music in it’s original media. I’m perfectly happy with the many remastered offerings.

♬What heaven brought you and me♬

♬Cannot be forgotten♬

♬I have been around the world♬

♬Looking for that woman-girl♬

♬Who knows love can endure♬

♬And you know it will♬ ♡‿♡

♪♫ Where the jukebox is blastin’

And the liquor is flowing

An occasional bottle of wine.

That’s cause everyone here is just more than

Contented to be living and dying in three quarter time. ♪♫

Arlo and Janis at the all you can treat Buffett.

Funny thing is that my parents did like country songs, but didn’t have anything of JB. And they were born in the 1940s. Looked at his songs, only one that slightly rings a bell is “Hey, good looking”.

Cassette Tape repair? Just download it and play?

One of my favorites is 4+20, by CSN. It always touched something in me. Still does today.

I’m using this song currently for practicing my ice dancing (waltz rhythm).

Love this week long tribute to Jimmy Buffett! Fins (and Bubbles) Up!

He’s using a pencil? I still keep an old bic pen around and I will until I digitise my last cassette.

Digital formats are typically noise free. Cassettes typically have a great deal of background hiss. Plus Arlo is holding, what, 12 tracks, and Janis is holding 120,000 tracks.

Today’s strip and comments raise a question that I can’t begin to answer: Wax yielded to vinyl which yielded to magnetic tape which yielded to CDs which yielded to digital. What will be the next medium?

A fair number of readers have no idea what Arlo is doing and with what.

“There’s a cowboy in the jungle…………And his original destination’s just anotherStory that he loves to tell”………..One of my favorites.

Kind of fitting that ‘Arlo’ (Guthrie) and ‘Janis’ (Joplin) should be honoring Jimmy Buffett for a week.

And they actually know how to dance as a couple! Touching each other! And from that generation! They must’ve had lessons.

Novice. Arlo is tediously turning the pencil in the cog rather than spinning the cassette around the pencil.

I gave away my cassette player thirty years ago. Got rid of my CD system and my hundreds of CD’s ten years ago. Now I’ve got 80 million songs in my pocket – I just say, “Siri, play Son of a Son of a Sailor.”

Rewinding the tape was part of the charm if it bak then.

Ah…this could’ve the start of a nooner!

Thank you so much for these tribute strips to Jimmy Buffett…some of us “aren’t ready to put the book on the shelf.”

I found a carton of cassettes from when I was a part time AO for CBC North. My day job paid very well but this was isolation so it was that or all night in the bar. I had a very nice Sony auto reverse cassette (tapes then needed conductive strips to work) and the station had a big library and most of evening was network so I could use second studio to make tapes. Broadcast is not kind to records and the tone arms track heavily and allow back cueing and this was AM radio so quality not great.

I found on AliExpress for under $50 a machine than can be used like a Walkman and it will convert to MP3, I bought from the same place a external hard drive case that looks like a cassette, appropriate I thought a lot of music on 500 gb

God bless you Jimmy.

I don’t know how many times I had to rewind a cassette with a pencil.

“Changes in Latitude” played a lot around here and “Margaritaville” as well. Always reminded me of a Condo I owned on the beach. I never ventured that far with my boat though. Still the memories are great.

Thank you, Jimmy Johnson, for this arc. I’m gonna miss that son of a son of a sailor.

It doesn’t matter how you listen so long as you DANCE!!!!

I have >90% of my collection on an old phone (MP3"s) that I use as a jukebox. 3800 songs in less than six cubic inches.

Simply a lovely tribute; thank you.

ka-sweet

Thanks for honoring Jimmy. ❤️