Blessed!
Yes those times were priceless, cassettes have so much history in our life, like on your case with playing instruments, that's super cool!
The person that teach me how to dj was god sent absolutely, it was like we wanted it so bad the it manifested on the way we was lease expecting, so I took the risk ππ. Until this day we still good friends and he still has all the records and cds from those times.