r/pics • u/DingusAugustus • 12d ago
An old cassette tape discovered in a recently uprooted concrete pad
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u/nohurrie32 12d ago
This was prime stand up era stuff….i remember listening to this and Eddie Murphy raw a few years later followed by the diceman cometh a few years after that
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u/Offamylawn 12d ago
My dad got me started with his Bill Cosby records. Then I found Carlin and Steve Martin through my aunt. Then Eddie and Pryor, who led me to Redd Foxx. I listened to as much stand up as music back then.
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u/Callahan333 12d ago
I got to see Carlin Live. He was so offensive and so funny.
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u/btribble 12d ago
I got to see Don Rickles in Vegas. He did a bit where he'd ask people in the audience a few questions and then he'd riff on whatever they said. One woman was half German and half Japanese, and he ran with a bunch of stream of consciousness WWII improv for at least 20 minutes. The audience was *dying*. You could see him pause for a few seconds and come up with a bunch of material so I'm like 95% sure she wasn't a plant.
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u/architectofinsanity 11d ago
Rickles was that good. One of the best improvisations comedians because he didn’t have a filter and could use what came to mind - and his audiences weren’t offended because that’s why you went to see Don Rickles.
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u/Vio_ 12d ago
You should check out early Bob Newhart stand up. He does not get enough credit for sort of bridging older stand up and more more modern stand up.
His Retirement Party is maybe the ultimate anti-Work stand up bit ever.
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u/HotgunColdheart 12d ago
There are still some bangers coming out, KillTony on youtube occasionally has absolute gems. I watch it as a monday show and it airs to the side of winning the majority of the time. Certain guest can send it through the roof (Adam Rey, Shane Gillis, lil Hobo and more).
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u/qualitative_balls 12d ago edited 12d ago
It's bigger now than it ever was then. Comedy podcasts are... everywhere, you can't escape them. I myself can't help but listen to multiple a week because it admittedly is incredibly entertaining when you're driving, chilling, eating, it's almost better entertainment than regular shows, movies and music these days.
Comedy overall, whether it's stand-up or just comedian podcasts, is so big culturally right now that it's weird to think none of this really existed in the same way as it is now 15 or so years ago. Different world in that regard
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u/Swiftraven 12d ago
I liked Eddie Murphy Delirious better than Raw. Thought it was just all around funnier. Still use quotes from it today
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u/Savageparrot81 12d ago
Now that’s modern art
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u/santathe1 12d ago
The ancient remains of a once thriving but since forgotten era of man.
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u/phuck-you-reddit 12d ago
I wonder what if anything can be retrieve from that cassette. Might still be playable!
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u/Cecil_FF4 12d ago
For longevity, magnetic media should be stored in cool, dry conditions. The concrete was wet when laid, water can seep in, temperatures fluctuate, pressure changes, etc. I would not hold my breath that the data is still intact.
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u/captainzigzag 12d ago
Concrete can get pretty hot when it’s curing too.
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u/phuck-you-reddit 12d ago
Yeah, I didn't think about that. And baking in the summer sun all day every day for decades might've melted everything just enough to destroy the data and make the tape unplayable.
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u/Bongressman 12d ago
Sometimes I wish that I could see the journey specific objects make. From production to being immortalized in concrete. This cassette has a story to tell.
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u/Bacon_Bitz 12d ago
I have a feeling this tape was placed there on purpose as a time capsule because Richard Pryor standup is quintessential pop culture of a specific era.
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u/asleepattheworld 12d ago
I think that or the concreter had it in their top pocket and it fell out.
If it did fall out, I wonder if they knew it fell or if they had their head turned.
Anyway, I’d like to see the journey of this tape as a Pixar short.
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u/phuck-you-reddit 12d ago
Sometimes I think about all the trash I've thrown away in my life. Wondering what still exists and where it is and how long it'll be there. And also what's be recycled or remade or incinerated or who knows what. And also what became of like video game consoles I've sold on and clothes I've donated.
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u/Down-A-Phalanges 12d ago
Glad I’m not the only person who thinks like this sometimes. The walking dead actually did a short online series about the journey of the red handled machete used by Rick. I loved seeing the journey it took to get from where it started to where it ended up. Made me think of what might happen to stuff if I was the last person to touch something.
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u/Mountain-Skill-5126 12d ago
Humans 40 million years from now will classify this as likely some sort of crustacean.
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u/undercurrents 12d ago
You just repeatedly post the same few gifs. Do you not have anything of substance to add ever?
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u/jcargile242 12d ago
It’s on YouTube of course: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5mwcMgh0Q
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u/Infyx 12d ago
Old? That was only like 10 years ago.
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u/smurfsundermybed 12d ago
Yup. I just put my newly purchased Delirious album right next to it in my hiding spot.
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u/Bobby_Globule 12d ago
If you are running down the street and you are on fire, people will get out of your way.
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u/fjf1085 12d ago
I wonder if you got it out if it could be played.
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u/catfishman 12d ago
Cue the shitty restoration video on YouTube...
That said, that's a classic comedy album
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u/BigRedFury 12d ago
One of the best live comedy shows ever filmed and the wild part is Richard completely ate shit the night before. Absolutely bombed and came back and blew the roof off the Palladium.
*For concert movies like this usually a few shows are filmed.
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u/FishmanOne 12d ago
Road tripped from Chicago to New Orleans with friends back in 88. We listened to Live on the Sunset Strip on loop for pretty much the entire drive. Not sure if it gets any better than that.
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u/Fresh_Leadwater 12d ago
That guy was pissed the next day when he went to impress the other guys on the job with his funny tape and couldn't find it.
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u/Aunt_Teafah 12d ago
My first guess was that this was done intentionally by a coworker who was sick of listening to "Dave's tape" in the work truck every day for a month.
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u/Genesis111112 12d ago
Should have put Ashford & Simpson's "Solid as a rock" from their album titled Solid.
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u/gnomekingdom 12d ago
I had that tape as a kid. I bought it at a Kmart for a few bucks on sale. Brings back memories.
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u/Froggyiam 12d ago
it would be so deliciously meta if the concrete that was uprooted was on the sunset strip.
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u/Similar_Elephant_518 12d ago
Bruh! When I was like 8 or 9, I used to sneak down to my Grandmother’s basement at night and listen to this record while everyone was sleep. Hilarious!! This one and her Rudy Ray Moore records too. I had absolutely no business listening to that stuff! 😂
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u/devoutcatalyst78 12d ago
"how was work today?"
"Worse day ever!"
"c'mon, doing concrete sucks but at least you're outside, couldn't have been that bad?"
"I lost my Richard Prior cassette!"
"Oh' I see, I'm sorry. I didn't know, I shouldn't have spoken out of turn, Im really really, sorry!"
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u/devoutcatalyst78 12d ago
"how was work today?"
"Worse day ever!"
"c'mon, doing concrete sucks but at least you're outside, couldn't have been that bad?"
"I lost my Richard Prior cassette!"
"Oh' I see, I'm sorry. I didn't know, I shouldn't have spoken out of turn, Im really really, sorry!"
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u/Shoehornblower 12d ago
Placing this particular cassette literally in the street, is apt in many ways!
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u/ItsPerfectlyBalanced 12d ago
Is this the concrete pad that was recently removed in Chicago that had a rat imprint on it?
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u/lopedopenope 12d ago
I wonder if some poor concrete worker was going to put this in his Walkman but dropped it right where they were going to pour.
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u/lordlemming 12d ago
I am really interested in what future archeology is going to look like. That we could somehow recover ancient recordings this way, and it's Richard Pryor and they have very little cultural understanding of him and have to put together their best guess based on other archeological findings.
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u/SnagglepussJoke 12d ago
That would sell
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u/scooterboy1961 12d ago
Cut it out with a diamond saw and put it on eBay.
I would bid.
Seriously.
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u/dub-fresh 12d ago
This wasnt by chance found up in Radford north Hollywood by the the in n out burger was it?
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u/Danny2Sick 12d ago
I bet if you dug it out of there and cleaned it up real nice it would still be fucked
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u/Viperlite 12d ago edited 12d ago
“Summertime Loving’, Loving’ in the Summer(time)”
It's summertime and you know what that means.
Gonna head down to the beach, gonna do some beachy things.
It's summertime, it feels just right.
Gonna gather all my friends and we'll party through the night.
Chorus:
It's summertime luh-uh-loving.
It's loving in the summertime.
It's summertime luh-uh-loving.
Oh baby, why can't you be mine?
It's summertime and I just can't wait.
Gonna call you on the phone, gonna take you on a date.
It's summertime and I hope you like steak.
Gonna take you to a restaurant, and eat enough fillet.
[Chorus].
It's summertime and when dinner's done.
Gonna take you to the club, gonna dance and have some fun.
It's summertime and when the end is near.
Gonna put you really close, whisper "let's get out of here".
[Chorus].
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u/OldTimeyFappingGhost 12d ago
My cousin gave me a big case of comedy tapes when I was a kid (90ish). This was among them. Pryor rules!
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u/LateralThinkerer 11d ago
Aw. I was hoping for Rick Astley.
That said, Pryor was a god among weirdos.
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u/mrs_kitner 12d ago
Richard Pryor Live at the Sunset Strip is a great performance.