When I was first starting to make these tapes, I kept track of the songs on each tape on sheets of notebook paper, 1 sheet per tape. I eventually came to call this catalog the "papers" (for lack of a more imaginative name *g*). Each tape was sequentially numbered as I used it within a brand.

Over the years I ended up using several brands of tape. GMEMOREX stands for "Gold" Memorex tapes. When I got these, I already had the regular Memorex tapes, so I wanted to give the new ones a different "tapecode". The new ones had goldeny-yellow insert cards, hence the "G".

And there are no TDK 1, 2, or 3. I don't remember if I ever had them. Somehow they just got numbered that way and I never bothered to change it.

My memory escaped me for far too long. In Jan 2014, I recalled that I lent some tapes to a friend, and they subsequently were stolen from his locker. (This occurred when I was in high school.) I was justifiably upset at the loss of irreplaceable material, but there was nothing I could do about it. Just had to suck it up and deal with the aftermath. Then I guess over the years I completely forgot about the entire incident. But now during the research to reconstruct my early taping days, it's come back to me. At least now I feel a little less bad about wiping so much stuff. At least four (if not more) tapes-worth got killed, and it definitely wasn't my fault. Unless the fault was being too trusting... What was I thinking, letting originals out of my house?

So that statement above is wrong. There are portions of the list of missing material that can easily fill the space between MEM 3 and TDK 4. I can estimate some of what goes where even now, so I will add "the tapes that should have been" to this listing. But once I get the playlist data, then I can list for sure what I once had. For now, I'm going as close as I can for date-order. (And BOY will this be difficult with the patchy sections!)

• 1987 -- MEM__00 MEM__01 MEM__02 MEM__03 TDK__01 TDK__02 TDK__03 TDK__04 MAX__01 MAX__02
• 1988 -- MAX__02 MAX__03 MAX__04 TDK__05 TDK__06 BASF_01 BASF_02 BASF_03 BASF_04 SCOT_01 SCOT_02 SCOT_03 SONY_01
• 1989 -- BASF_05 SCOT_02 SCOT_04 SCOT_05 SCOT_06 JC___01 JC___02 JC___03 JC___04 JC___05 SONY_02
• 1990 -- SONY_03 MEM__03 MEM__02 MAX__02 BASF_03 SCOT_02 SCOT_01 BASF_04 SCOT_04 TDK__05 JC___01 MAX__04 JC___03 SCOT_05 JC___04
•           Horrifying. All but 2 are Frankentapes, aka material taped over what already existed. I'm disgusted at myself.
• 1991 -- SONY_01
•           I still can't figure out why I only have ONE tape side from this year, and it's a tapeover, too!.
• 1992 -- MEM__04 SCOT_05 MAX__05 GMEM_01 MAX__06 GMEM_02 GMEM_03 GMEM_04 GMEM_05 GMEM_06
• 1993 -- GMEM_07 GMEM_08 GMEM_09 GMEM_10 GMEM_11 GMEM_12 MEM__05 MEM__06 MEM__07 MEM__08 MEM__09
• 1994 -- GMEM_13 GMEM_14 GMEM_15 GMEM_16 GMEM_17 GMEM_18 GMEM_19 GMEM_20
• 1995 -- GMEM_21 GMEM_22 GMEM_23 GMEM_24 GMEM_25 GMEM_26 GMEM_27 GMEM_28 GMEM_29 GMEM_30 MAX__06 GMEM_11 
            MEM__05 GMEM_18 MAX__02 MEM__04 MEM__10 MEM__11 MEM__12 MEM__13 MEM__14 MEM__15 MEM__16 MEM__17 MEM__18
• 1996 -- MEM__19 MEM__20 MEM__21
• 1997 -- I missed all 5 live shows from this year.
• 1998 -- MEM__22 MEM__23 MEM__24 MEM__25 MEM__26 MEM__27 MEM__28 MEM__29 MEM__30 MAX__07 MAX__08 MAX__09 MAX__10

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