All I had was a crappy Sanyo... and a Realistic cassette/LP/8-Track combo later... so we could play Stairway to Heaven backwards to see if yanno... the thing
I watched an episode of "The 700 Club" decades ago that had a guy with a reel-to-reel tape machine. He played a lot of stuff backwards so you could hear the crazy stuff. I recorded the audio on a cassette. I can now do the same backward playing on my computer easily with my music editing software. Some "backward masking" is done purely as a joke. I have two 45s that have one side completely backwards. One is the flipside of "They're Coming To Take Me Away," which is just the A-side played backward. Even the label is printed backward on that one. The other is the flipside of a 1910 Fruitgum Company hit. The title says "Pow Wow," but it's actually the Howdy Doody theme played backwards. I first played that on my phonograph by just turning the record backwards by hand. I now have a good copy on my computer.
BTW, Plant was in Aleister Crowley's house when he wrote "Stairway To Heaven." He said it all "just came to him." So there was a Satanic connection.
I bought my first stereo cassette machine in 1974. I bought my first stereo reel-to-reel machine in 1975. Both came from Radio Shack, back when they sold decent stereo equipment. I still have the reel-to-reel, and it still works, but one of the guides is very worn so the tape won't stay on track. I have a restored Pioneer RT-909 that plays like brand new, as well as a restored 8-track machine that can also record. Sometimes I just play with my audio equipment and forget about the computer, unless I'm recording stuff to the computer for restoration and archiving purposes.
All I had was a crappy Sanyo... and a Realistic cassette/LP/8-Track combo later... so we could play Stairway to Heaven backwards to see if yanno... the thing
I watched an episode of "The 700 Club" decades ago that had a guy with a reel-to-reel tape machine. He played a lot of stuff backwards so you could hear the crazy stuff. I recorded the audio on a cassette. I can now do the same backward playing on my computer easily with my music editing software. Some "backward masking" is done purely as a joke. I have two 45s that have one side completely backwards. One is the flipside of "They're Coming To Take Me Away," which is just the A-side played backward. Even the label is printed backward on that one. The other is the flipside of a 1910 Fruitgum Company hit. The title says "Pow Wow," but it's actually the Howdy Doody theme played backwards. I first played that on my phonograph by just turning the record backwards by hand. I now have a good copy on my computer.
BTW, Plant was in Aleister Crowley's house when he wrote "Stairway To Heaven." He said it all "just came to him." So there was a Satanic connection.
I bought my first stereo cassette machine in 1974. I bought my first stereo reel-to-reel machine in 1975. Both came from Radio Shack, back when they sold decent stereo equipment. I still have the reel-to-reel, and it still works, but one of the guides is very worn so the tape won't stay on track. I have a restored Pioneer RT-909 that plays like brand new, as well as a restored 8-track machine that can also record. Sometimes I just play with my audio equipment and forget about the computer, unless I'm recording stuff to the computer for restoration and archiving purposes.