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 +====== Cassettes ======
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 +There were only about twelve formal Chinese Forehead [[songs]].  ​
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 +Most were performed at one or another [[gigs|gig]],​ some never made to the stage and were only performed in rehearsals.
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 +However, there were a great many experiments and jams that were recorded, one-off things that might have served the basis for more formal material.
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 +The recording and preservation process was, at best, haphazard. ​ Many rehearsals and jam sessions were recorded on cassette, typically using whatever tape happened to be laying around. ​ When the Teac 3440 4-track was used it was often the same: find some tape that didn't seem to have anything too important and re-use.  ​
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 +When open-reel tapes got full the tracks were curated: stuff that sounded interesting or promising was copied off to cassette.
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 +Bottom line is that there was about zero quality control. ​
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 +Tapes were given all sorts of ad-hoc names. ​ Early rehearsal tapes were adorned with whatever band name we were using that day: Cobalt Men. People with Small Hands. The Logarithms. ​
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 +Tapes that collected the various "​studio"​ pieces were given more abstract names: Whistling Swans. ​ 341 Slides. Skin Supplies for Men. 
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 +Many had no name at all; they were identifiable by odd scrawls and the different colors of multiple over-writing.
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 +Some pieces ended up on more than one cassette. ​  Tapes were typically created to collect recent work thought worth saving so they could be more easily listened to. It also meant that the source open-reel tape could be reused.
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 +Some tapes were meant as "best of" collections by some vague standard.
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 +Trying to organize all this in any meaningful way is impossible.  ​
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 +There'​s nothing to indicate dates.  ​
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 +No track listings. ​
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 +Just colorful cassettes.
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 +===== The Tapes ======
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 +* [[Breathing different atmospheres]]
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 +* [[Kitchen Carousel]]
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 +* [[Popular Music]]
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 +* [[341 Slides]]
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 +* [[Man from Bolivia]]
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 +* [[A-side of Not Chinese Forehead]]
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