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What’s on the agenda — sports? TV? — as we wrap up the weekend?
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What’s on the agenda — sports? TV? — as we wrap up the weekend?
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raven
Saved by the bell!
Alison
Cosmos and Veep finales (and we get an hour of the latter, huzzah)!
JPL
@raven: Just left you a post down below.
Suffern ACE
I had some ginger left over from the take out sushi place, and now I’m enjoying it in a ginger-pear cocktail. I didn’t want to waste it.
Mike in NC
Turn
Game of Thrones
Salem
Halt and Catch Fire
raven
@JPL: thx
WaterGirl
@raven: It’s all good!
WaterGirl
@Mike in NC: Is Halt and Catch Fire any good? I recorded it, but I haven’t watched it yet.
Mustang Bobby
Was watching the Tonys until the “Rocky” piece came on and decided that it was altogether too much of a piece of crap. I’ll come back when they get to the real theatre stuff, like best play.
Steeplejack
I love Buffalo Springfield. One of my top five bands—for admittedly “right time, right age” reasons. Had the LPs back in the day, now have CDs around here somewhere. And I was a Stephen Stills guy (vs. Neil Young), although now I have accepted the judgment of history.
A minor gem that showcases Stills: “Pretty Girl Why.”
raven
@Steeplejack: The two Manassas albums are killers and Black Queen smokes.
eta And Old Times Good Times. . . .who else has Jimi and Eric on their album?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYQjxZURQwE
Steeplejack
@raven:
Love that song, and I have always hated that it peters out instead of going into (what I imagine to be) an extended Hendrix solo.
I also like that frosty B-3 organ. You don’t hear that these days.
Ditto “Cherokee.”
SiubhanDuinne
Go Atlanta! Kenny Leon won best director at the Tonys. He has done some amazing work here and I’m thrilled to see him recognized by his peers on Broadway.
raven
@Steeplejack: Yea, you know it went SOMEWHERE!
Steeplejack
@raven:
Guess we’ll have to wait for the double-secret extended boxed set—if we live that long.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
You’re getting close to hitting a nerve, because there are so many “albums” for which I have terminal version fatigue—remixes, remasters, enhanced versions, releases and re-releases on new media, etc. The only thing I’m happy about is that somehow I managed to miss eight-track completely.
gbear
@efgoldman: One of the extra tracks on LZ2 is the basic tracks pre-overdub of Whole Lotta Love. It’s available to hear online at multiple sites but I don’t have a link available. It doesn’t have the pre-echo or the post-echo & you will just barely recognize the song. What I’ve heard of the bonus stuff didn’t make me want to run out and buy the new versions (although LZ3 is my fave and I might be tempted to pick up the vinyl reissue of that album).
gbear
@Steeplejack: Buffalo Springfield always makes me think of 8-tracks because when dad bought a player for the family car, the first three tapes we had were Led Zeppelin 1, Buffalo Springfield Retrospective, and the Atlantic Super Hits Volume 2. My dad was nowhere hip enough to pick those out himself so they must have come with the player.
Did you go through a reel-to-reel phase?
gbear
@Steeplejack: The Stones early albums are being re-released slowly on clear vinyl and they’re worth picking up. They sound great. My early Stones records are all crappy re-channeled stereo, so the new versions are welcome.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
Well, I can’t take credit for any aesthetic discrimination. The real reason is probably that my early ’70s car was a piece-of-shit Pontiac Ventura (twin sister of the Chevy Nova), and the idea of putting a dollar more than absolutely necessary into it was a nonstarter.
SarahT
@Alison: Did they run the ad for the Freedom From Religion Foundation where you are ? That was amazing !
WaterGirl
@gbear: Oh my gosh, reel-to-reel = my freshman year in college. All the guys who liked jazz had them to impress us womens.
mainmata
I was in high school when this song came out and, frankly, none of us had access to a video. We rejoiced in radio because we had no other medium. It was the 1960s. FM radio! Yeah baby. Buffalo Springfield, yes. 1960s was such an explosion of wonderful music; I never wanted to watch TV then. Music was everything; the only thing.
Loved the 1980s music though I spent all of it and the 1990s overseas too. Still listen to pop and indie music to this day. I like Rihanna and the pop-eyed Katy Perry via my kids but also international aka world music bands.
HinTN
@raven: Man Alive is amazing!!!
gbear
@WaterGirl: I was a stereo geek and played in a band in high school so I had an Ampex r-2-r deck as soon as I could buy one. I almost skipped over cassettes because the r-2-r was so much better sounding (but as non-portable as a turntable). I’ve still got a Sony 640B in a cabinet at home but the brakes have dried out and I can’t find anyone to fix it. I’ve still got a ton of live band tapes that would be fun to hear 40 years after the fact.
WaterGirl
@gbear: Yeah, I hate that. VHS movies I can’t watch, cassette tapes my car can’t play, and the tiny little tape from my old answering machine that has the last message I ever got from my dad before he died. I would kill to hear his voice again!
Edit:@efgoldman: This reply would have worked for your message, too, had I seen it before replying to gbear.
mainmata
@WaterGirl: It reminds me of the final scene of the Lord of the Rings (3rd book) when the Orcs and all the other grotesqueries charge the castle. Much blood. All I will say.
WaterGirl
@mainmata: Halt and Catch Fire? I thought that was the show about the early PC computers, or something like that. Do I have that wrong?
Mike in NC
@WaterGirl: So far a bit of a dud.
Steeplejack
@gbear:
Heh, I was a reel-to-reel god. From ’67 to ’69 I lived on Okinawa (my dad was in the Air Force), and one of the few perks of living at the ass end of nowhere was easy access to incredibly good and incredibly cheap Japanese hi-fi equipment. Dad had an amazing high-end setup—which he then abused (I thought) by listening to Dixieland jazz and country music—and I used that to copy my LPs onto tape (three LPs to one tape). When I went off to college in the fall of ’69 I took a semi-compact Panasonic unit that had AM/FM radio, reel-to-reel tape and detachable speakers. (Later I added a Dual turntable.) The farm boys at Mizzou were duly impressed, and my room was audio central for the two years I lived in the dorm.
This is making me think of old audio connections. Three albums that are welded together in my memory, because the girl who was my next-door neighbor in high school sent me a tape containing them right after I got to college, are Santana’s first album, John Mayall’s The Turning Point and Gordon Lightfoot’s Sunday Concert.
I moved from reel-to-reel to cassette sometime in the mid- or late ’70s; don’t remember exactly when. I kept all the reel-to-reel tapes for years, then lost them in one of those domestic disasters that occur occasionally.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
ObOpenThread.
Dunno if it has been mentioned yet, but there’s some news in Virginia tonight – Democratic state senator resigns to throw the body to the Republicans in (apparent) exchange for a cushy job and a judgeship for his daughter.
Disgusting.
Naturally, it makes it even more difficult for 400,000 Virginians to get Medicaid…
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I wonder what it feels like to sell out your state like that. And everything you’ve believed in. And the 400,000 people who need health care..
Steeplejack
@gbear:
God, one of the other great disasters of my audiophile career was the first CD releases of the Rolling Stones’ early albums. I love that music, and the mastering/mixing was atrocious. There were whole songs that didn’t sound remotely like they did when they first came out. Ngrr! It still gives me chills.
mainmata
Ross Doubt-that-very-much had another idiotic column up on the NYT. Clearly he is not embarrassed by the absurdity of his argument (such as it is) but his editor should be. The column is all about Obama as utter failure over the last 6 years and that the Democrats are a fractious bunch that doesn’t represent ‘Murika anyway and that – when the GOP gets together because – um – they have always and still represent AMERICA – then the Democrats are doomed except if they nominate the obvious Hillary because otherwise argle-bargle. Bad as Doubt-that op-eds always are this is exceptionally bad and basically just trolling Dems – badly I might add. It is not worth reading. He is such a stupid embarrassment.
gbear
@Steeplejack: I worked at a record warehouse in the late 70’s and one day a box full of pre-recorded reel-to-reel tapes came in from some store that was closing. I managed to talk my boss into letting me buy it so I’ve got a pretty good collection of early Beach Boys, Procol Harum and a bunch of other late 60’s albums stacked in with all of my band tapes. I also did the three-albums-on-one-tape thing and I think I still have two tapes of Deep Purple records and one of Simon & Garfunkle. I need to find someone who can repair my r-2-r deck…
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
The Ventura, a ’71 (I think), which I bought in some small town in North Dakota before my last year of college (Dad got transferred from Okinawa to Minot AFB), was good until it wasn’t. It had a bench seat and three on the floor, which I thought was cool, and it got me a few years into my first job after college, but after it developed problems (girlfriend ran it over a tree stump in her front yard) it went downhill fast. And it was never more than a basic, no-frills ride, so there was no incentive to pimp it out with anything.
Steeplejack
@gbear:
Holy shnikeys, I took a run at the Google and actually found a picture of the Panasonic unit I had—the RS-763FS. (This is not my actual unit, and the picture doesn’t show the speakers, which were attached at each end but could be detached and spread for greater stereo separation.)
Note the little window at the upper right with the two white bars underneath it. That window is the AM/FM dial, and the white bars are buttons that would seek up or down to the next station—and this was in 1969!
Joel Hanes
@gbear:
Bought a big-ass 4-channel autoreverse TEAC deck at the PX (in Germany) in 1974.
Spent 1974-1981 “curating” about a thousand LPs onto reel-to-reel — carefully treating each LP with cleaner and preservative and groomer, just the right white space between sides, careful records of the contents of each tape.
And then in 1984 my reel-to-reel quit working, and I couldn’t find competent service to replace the
rollers and align the new heads, so it always mis-tracked about 20 minutes into a tape.
Held onto the tapes for another couple years out of denial and inertia …
now they’d be curiosities, like my 1977 data structures programs on punch cards,
or the 8-inch floppies we used in 1979 to record the tiny PDP-11 assembly programs
we had to write in computer architecture class
(a PDP-11/70 virtual memory system running that outlaw hippie SW from Berkeley — “Unix”, I think they called it.)
Wally Ballou
@WaterGirl: You could always have this guy transfer them to digital for you. I’d certainly recommend it for your dad’s message if nothing else.
http://www.dlfmusic.com
Joel Hanes
@WaterGirl:
the tiny little tape from my old answering machine that has the last message I ever got from my dad before he died
There are companies that specialize in recovering and format-converting data from obsolete media.
A quick Google of “data recovery obsolete tape formats” returns pages full of such; perhaps there’s one near you.
I hope you get to hear his voice again. My Dad died in 2005; I still miss him every day.
WaterGirl
@Wally Ballou: Thanks for that, I’ll check it out!
Joel Hanes
@Steeplejack:
John Mayall’s The Turning Point
Chicky-chicky-what? [laughter]
There’s a bit of chicker-chicker in this one, it’ll be all right; it’s called Room To Move
Steeplejack
@Joel Hanes:
LOL, a kindred spirit! My dad had an autoreverse Teac deck in his setup, and I had probably the same model you did after I upgraded from the Panasonic combo unit above.
If only someone could have traveled back through time to tell us we didn’t need to save all that stuff because CDs would come along.
Did you also go through various stores’ “cut-out bins” to “save” old ’60s albums that no one was ever going to listen to again once the darkness of disco descended in the mid-’70s? Rhetorical question.
Wally Ballou
Oh, look, another day, another one of these:
Five dead in shooting rampage in Las Vegas
WaterGirl
@Joel Hanes: Thanks for the suggestion.
I lost my dad in 1995. I miss him, too, and it’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 20 years.
Steeplejack
@Joel Hanes:
Oh, yeah. That album holds up pretty well, although maybe for sentimental reasons. “Thoughts About Roxanne.”
Mustang Bobby
I had reel-to-reel from 1968 through the ’70’s — the last album I bought on pre-recorded RxR was Paul McCartney’s “Ram.”
Finally made the switch to cassettes in 1983. Still have a big collection of them, and my kitchen radio has an 8-track player in it. I got a CD player in 1986. That still works.