His new show "Thomas VDB acclimatizes" should return in January 2021 at the European in Paris, after only 12 running dates before the theaters close.

Guest Thursday of "Culture Médias", the former music journalist and current humorist looks back on his teenage obsession with music, at a bygone era when it was listened to on cassettes. 

INTERVIEW

He tells us about a time that the under 20s ... Thomas VDB loves music so much that it has been at the heart of both of his careers.

Once

a music journalist (he was editor-in-chief of

Rock Sound

magazine 

), the comedian has several times placed his passion at the center of several of his shows (his first and third one-man shows were called 

En Rock et en Roll

and 

Thomas VDB sings Daft

Punk

).

Thursday, he remembers with humor the audio cassettes that accompanied the birth of his musical obsession at the microphone of 

Culture Médias

.

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"I had a clock radio player and cassette recorder"

When Thomas VDB falls into music, his big brother has a 45 rpm player.

And he outfitted the next generation.

"I had a clock radio player and cassette recorder," recalls the comedian.

An object that smells of the early 1990s. "I had to stick it to my brother's vinyl player to record songs on my cassettes."

This recording required precautions that will bring back memories to some.

"It was important not to go into the room at that time and ask 'What are you doing?'", Explains Thomas VDB.

"Because every time I was going to listen to the song afterwards, I was going to hear 'What are you doing?'

right in the middle."

"I made compilations to my first girlfriends" 

During the humorist's adolescence, the passion for cassettes is collective.

Thanks to the walkmans, this is the first time that we can listen to music everywhere.

"There was traffic in cassettes, seduction by the cassette", smiles Thomas VDB.

"I made compilations to my first girlfriends".

His obsession with compilations was born around this time, and occupied most of his time, even when he was not at home.

"When I was in class, I thought about the CDs that my friends lent me. I was like, 'This album is 47 minutes long. So, I have to put a song on phase 2 and find an album of 40 minutes to complete the second phase of the tape '", he laughs today.

"It was really the question that preoccupied me the most as a teenager."