“Movin’ Throo the Valley”
A Fakesoundchecks radio fiction
This came from a Maxell metal cassette my cousin made.
My sister and I used to visit my aunt and uncle’s house in Encino every other summer or so. Their only kid, a son, was always an adventure to be around for me and my sister, what with us being the only girls on that side of the family. Our uncle worked as a sound engineer in Burbank for some recording studio, so there was always a lot of expensive equipment and “hand-me-down” audio components given to my cousin — all of which blew away what our dad had at home. We were introduced to a lot of new music because of this.
During one vacation around 1986, he pissed me off for reasons not worth going into here, so I stole one of his duped radio cassettes as payback, which apparently had been recorded in 1983 (in his sloppy writing, “‘83 – Movin’ throo the Valley” was scribbled on the sticker). I only saw him once more in 1989, when we mostly ignored one another. In 1991, he wrapped his brand new Nissan ZX around a telephone pole on the San Bernadino Freeway (he was coked up and drunk).
The sound quality held up remarkably well.
[Note: the song after “I Love L.A.” is called “Delta Sleep” by a band called Trees. It took me almost 20 years to find out what it was.]