> There were fewer Jerry Bruckheimer movies in those days, so the guys
> lacked lots of movie soundtracks full of orchestras playing new
> macho music from the latest teen blow-'em-up-real-good action flick.
> Lacking that, they chose, I think it is safe to say, some of the
> absolute worst music available to them. And don't forget, it was
> usually poorly recorded, with plenty of pops and hisses (some
> competitors back in those days were still having their program music
> recorded onto vinyl discs) and not much in the way of stereo
> fidelity, edited by a rusty razor blade (no Macs in those days), and
> all too often with the telltale loud "beep!" sound at the beginning
> that announced where the music officially began...
>

I both skated in the early 80's and I cut my own music. And it wasn't
done with a razor blade. It was done with a tape deck and across the
board, people used cassettes. Now granted, at 12 I was better at
cutting music than most of what makes it onto the skating scene these
days. But I hardly had a Mac.

It wasn't that it was impossible, simply that they didn't bother to do
it.

> As a person who is only going to Keep Getting Older, I feel morally
> obligated on occasion to provide realistic pictures of the "good old
> days" of skating to balance out the natural human tendency to
> misperceive the past or unfairly compare it to today.

Yeah, I was too busy skating in the early to mid 80's to remember most
of this.

dej

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