I Feel Like I Found a Tape for Everybody

A follow-up to yesterday’s post about Upstairs at Eric’s. Growing up it looks like I was about 10 miles from the Record Rack in Montrose in Houston, where the good dance records were. This was no random, lucky find. This was the place to actually get great records. I found out about it in ninth grade, and before I think I was going to two different Sound Warehouses before, one near Memorial City Mall and one off Westheimer. Both like super treacherous bike rides when I think about it. But I was pretty adept at zipping around on my Peugeot back then. And I always say, had cycling teams been easier to find out about, I would have been on one for sure. That would have been my thing. Still have the legs to prove it. Anyway, after a bit of digging, turns out the Record Rack was directly connected to Numbers. The big question I had, after getting all the feedback from posting this cassette, was, how did we all hear about this record? I think we were all pretty in tune with Numbers, and we…