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wthulhu t1_iugdadw wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL When soul legend Wilson Picket recorded his iconic version of "Mustang Sally," he & his band rushed to hear the playback. The tape machine broke, cutting the tape into 30-40 tiny pieces. The engineer Tom Dowd carefully spliced them all back together, & that's the famous album version by wowbobwow

It could have wrapped up a segment of tape and broken several layers once siezed.

We have to remember that the media used at the time was not the same mass produced cassettes we were exposed to in the 80s and 90s. It's very likely that the material was far more brittle back then.

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