Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.
I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.
I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.
It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.
But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.
So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.
The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
If you're famous and supposedly wise, it's always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you might spew out a line or two worth printing somewhere.
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.