BANGKOK — In the late ‘90s, Kasidit Samniang worked his first job as a teen at a Tower Records at Emporium Bangkok. Dusting, arranging cassettes alphabetically and ordering music products exposed Gene to the music industry.
That life-changing experience for Kasidit, now better known as glam/trans singer Gene Kasidit, is one of many from a time when the music store was a way of life throughout the world, including in Bangkok where Gene and others such as Kanchat Rangseekansong could be found poring through records.
“Tower Records was probably the biggest CD retail store at the time. I spent nearly two hours in there,” said Kanchat, who went on to make a career writing about pop culture and the mass media. “The store was so big, and I was so nerdy, I browsed from A-Z.”
Behind the iconic red and yellow logo of Tower Records lie many stories that feature in documentary film “All Things Must Pass” to screen later this month, with Kanchat, Gene and other celebs present to add their own tales.