Hand-written playlist for a mix tape of songs by Boston bands The Cavedogs and Gigolo Aunts, summer 1990.
Much like my Flying Nun mix tape, here I copied music from CD to tape so I could more easily play it in friends’ cars, or my boom box at my school’s art studio. In this case, it was an entire CD: the recently-released debut album by one of my favorite local bands, The Cavedogs. But of course I needed to fill up the rest of the cassette.
I’d taped a live Cavedogs show that July, one of my first outings using my Sony D-6 recorder. So that went on the tape. And I thought the Gigolo Aunts would be another good addition. Not only were they sonically similar, the two bands even often shared a bill. And the Gigolo Aunts demo tape I had was only four songs long, so it made sense to put it on another cassette with a longer run time.
I’m not sure if I still have a copy of this mix, but at least I held onto all three original sources for it. And I will put that Cavedogs gig up online at some point as part of my live recording archive.
