Re: Replace tape
When I worked at Wessex Studios in London in the eighties we cleared out our tape store once a year. We didn't wipe the tape and resell it as it had already been paid for.
The first year I just took the sides off the reels and let them unwind into bin bags. I spent the next day picking the tape out of the trees all along Highbury New Park (a good half mile) due to the antics of a couple of the local intelligentsia.
The second year I used a splicing blade to cut the tape from the reels. You can't get as much fun from 6" lengths of tape.
I did find all the "Never Mind the Bollocks" masters in the attic, but they had a bit of masking tape round them stating that they were being kept for the court (the Sex Pistols were fighting Virgin at the time). I assume Matrix got them as they were not claimed by the time Chrysalis sold Wessex.
I wish I'd nicked them along with the Reg Dwight demos...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
