Side 1 of that Larry Boyd tape is done. A bunch more Mission of Burma, and a chunk of Husker Du. I don’t have much more to say about it.

I mentioned that I had six more tapes of music left to go — one more from Larry Boyd, and five from someone else, but I’m not sure who.

I did one of those other five today; the sender labeled it “The Very Best of Squeeze (’78-’91).” It’s got pieces of eleven different albums. No real problems with the transfer, or finding any of the relevant data.

I remember that this was sent because I’d said I wasn’t a Squeeze fan, and this was an attempt to convert me. It didn’t work, though I admit it did raise my opinion of the band somewhat. Prior to playing this I pretty much only knew the stuff that got played on MTV, and they were a better, more varied band than that sample had shown.

But I’m still not a big Squeeze fan.

(Incidentally, I sorted this out into fragments of the eleven albums, rather than leaving it as a “best of.”)

Next up — I never did finish up the Dan Hicks tape because the quality just wasn’t good enough. One of the albums on there is no longer in print and was never available on MP3, but I picked up a used copy online for a reasonable price, and it arrived Saturday. I’m going to rip that to my computer. After that, back to the remaining tapes. Five more music tapes, all either 90 or 100 minutes, and a dozen assorted tapes of spoken word stuff; not sure what order I’ll do them in. The last from Larry Boyd says it’s ’80s alternative; of the other four, three are just labeled “Various Artists” (numbered 1-3), and the last is Brent Spiner’s “Old Yellow Eyes Is Back.”