VIDEO WOW! with Mark Episode 2

This week is nothing real big. I just do my part to help to save an entire music format, that's all. 

A couple of die hard CYY listeners from Westbrook, Adam and Beth, have two great little sons, named Carson and Danny. They're very much CYY too. Well raised!

So I bumped into the family outside a Hannaford a little while back. I noticed Danny had a cassette in his hand. His dad said he found it in the garage and has been amazed by it ever since. I asked Danny if he knew what it was and how it worked. His thirst for musical format development was bursting at the seams.

Just then I thought back to my early days of music and the first cassettes I owned. My folks bought them for me cause I was too young to music shop then. Those first few tapes were; Styx "Paradise Theater," Michael Jackson "Off the Wall" and "Voices" by Daryl Hall and John Oates. Two of which are still two of my favorite albums of all time. (Hell no Styx isn't one of them. I was young!).

My cassette tape memory flood gate opened! I recalled the time when I bought this thing called a "ca-single." It was one song on a cassette and one on the b-side. Like a 45 (or a 7" as the kids call it). I bought the first ca-single that ever came out too, it was by Bryan Adams. (Again, I was young!)

I remembered how friggin cool clear cassettes were when they came out on the scene. I remember buying Van Halen "5150" and Motley Crue's "Theater of Pain," which were on clear see through cassettes. They looked so cool right?! Young people just won't even understand! Clear tapes were like special moon rocks or something. So futuristic. Tapes are pretty much gone now. There's a hipster movement trying to bring tapes back, but I don't see it working. Not like vinyl is working at least. It just seems like phony gesture to me. Don't get me wrong I love cassettes. My tapes, pre CD era, were everything to me back then. That was my bag, music! Today they're laughed at without understanding.

Now I won't say let's bring the cassette back entirely, but I will make damn sure tomorrow's leaders know what cassettes were and how they worked so when they DO want to bring them back in a non-hipster, true fashion - well then we're onto something good. I needed to introduce this new generation to the need for pencils too! (some of you will get that)

So before his folks drove off, I explained to Danny how cassettes worked and what they did. He seemed half interested. Oh no! Did I lose a future believer? Did I not make it exciting enough for him to love tapes and carry the message to his generation?!

Heck no! 15 minutes later his folks taped this chat in the car as Danny like a true future format leader broke down cassettes like a boss!