The Album I Owned on Cassette First
Sometimes the format through which we discover an album becomes part of the album itself. In this episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave returns to The Doobie Brothers’ Takin’ It to the Streets—but the record on the turntable is not the copy that owns the memory. Dave had the album on cassette first, and Side One, Cut One—“Wheels of Fortune”—became an obsession. He loved the riffs, rewound the tape and went back to the beginning again and again. Later, he bought the vinyl LP. It should have been the upgrade. Instead, it only reached the turntable a couple of times because Dave kept returning to the…
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