Music Appreciation

a portable cassette recorder. They were just hitting the market and not many people had them. My parents picked it up a radio shack if I remember correctly. They also let him buy his first cassette. It was Aerosmith's dream on. We played the hell out of it. Later when I was in high-school (we had electrical circuit and electronics classes, I hand wired a voltage converter to power the portable cassette player in his Mustang and tied the audio into the speakers with a Radio Shack amplifier kit. I became an electronics geek early. The Columbia House cassette deals became a thing and we ordered a bunch of cassettes. We blasted some great tunes. We lived in Massachusetts and J Geils was big. We had BTO, Steve Miller, Springsteen, Boston?, The Eagles..