ALL ABOUT MUSIC #2 - Non Surround, Not Covered In Other Threads
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My first ever album that I bought was Black Sabbath self titled (it was newly out, and so was I 
), as I pondered 'who is this Tony Iommi and what is that wonderful thing he's doing with that guitar'? Vol.4 had some great cuts, I particularly like Snowblind and Changes. All things considered, Ozzy can still get it done. Though watching him during the RRHoF concert and 2013's Gathered In Their Masses shows me that I've outgrown the potty mouth that he hasn't
), as I pondered 'who is this Tony Iommi and what is that wonderful thing he's doing with that guitar'? Vol.4 had some great cuts, I particularly like Snowblind and Changes. All things considered, Ozzy can still get it done. Though watching him during the RRHoF concert and 2013's Gathered In Their Masses shows me that I've outgrown the potty mouth that he hasn't 
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kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
but I LIKE baseball!!!
It RELAXES me...weirdly enough...
It RELAXES me...weirdly enough...
You are killing me Kap...just when I think I have you figured out...you throw a curve ball(pun intended):walker
Its a subliminal effect. Be careful with that.
kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
...what....are .... you...talking...about....Dave...
@: ???? Daiiiissyyyyy...Daiiiissyyyyy....Yeah , I know , it MUST be subliminal...EVERYTHING nowadays has subliminal messages....to keep you in a trance...at least it's Baseball and I don't feel like going postal after watching it...
Music now is totally hypnotic (same patterns repeated ad nauseam)...which I find BORINNNNGGG...
Movies and TV have 20 milliseconds shots as the standard (OK, maybe 200 ms....)..and the dialogue NEVER STOPS so you can't think at all...anybody remember that Max Headroom episode called "Blipverts" (which was also the plot for the -only-UK pilot)????
JerseyEd
400 Club - QQ All-Star
Ha Ha. I LUV IT... "since I never cared for sports..." (quick, name the song and the artist). The one thing I hate about going to the relatives during the holidays is knowing that the men will be gathered around the tube watching football. I usually end up sitting at the table with the womenfolk discussing recipes!
In the next 40 minutes the Trans-Siberian Orchestra will be on my local PBS channel on directv(ch 16 in my area)...Ghosts of Christmas Eve is the title and it's on at 10pm EASTERN STANDARD TIME...
Broke out some Boston Third Stage on vinyl. One of my albums from back in the day and it sounds brand new.....man did I take care of those.
Well, I used to be such a metal head back in the early 80's. And metal was super popular in early 80's. Anyway, bands were popping up out of the woodwork. I found this LP at a local store back in 1984. They were called Trouble and out of Chicago. I remember thinking they had a lot of Sabbath elements to them...but probably were taking it to the extreme....still I vividly remember jamming to this in my car while partaking to mass amounts of pot. Seemed to be the thing to do back then.....glad I survived all that...but it's fun to listen to this now, though it's hard to imagine really liking it. But hey, that's me back then.
So, here is the LP I still have it and it does sound great...
So, here is the LP I still have it and it does sound great...
So, I'm sure this is a function of my age group...and I know Clint will appreciate this story. So, once cassette tapes were becoming the go to way to listen to music in our cars....yet much of the best music was still being produced on vinyl....we'd go buy the vinyl and the very first time we'd play it - we would also make a cassette copy so we could play it in our car...most likely all of us had a reasonably good cassette player/recorder. I had a Harmon Kardon and it did a great job of capturing a new vinyl. Also, Maxel, Teac were producing good blank cassettes. Those were the good days, but it was like clockwork, what we did to make our music portable. Goal was to get in the car as fast as we could and hit the country side, smoke weed and listen to our new music while driving 30 mph...lost, stoned and happy.
Another one of "salvaged" albums I bought back in the 80's I guess. Neil Diamond, Headed To The Future...I vividly remembering back then thinking this was one of the most excellent sounding albums from a fidelity standpoint...and I was right. I sounds exceptional even today. No compression at all...wide dynamic range.
Note the $6.99 price from Musicland! Cool...
Note the $6.99 price from Musicland! Cool...
So, I'm sure this is a function of my age group...and I know Clint will appreciate this story. So, once cassette tapes were becoming the go to way to listen to music in our cars....yet much of the best music was still being produced on vinyl....we'd go buy the vinyl and the very first time we'd play it - we would also make a cassette copy so we could play it in our car...most likely all of us had a reasonably good cassette player/recorder. I had a Harmon Kardon and it did a great job of capturing a new vinyl. Also, Maxel, Teac were producing good blank cassettes. Those were the good days, but it was like clockwork, what we did to make our music portable. Goal was to get in the car as fast as we could and hit the country side, smoke weed and listen to our new music while driving 30 mph...lost, stoned and happy.
You are spot on about those days of smoking weed and driving...I can remember being scared to death driving on a 4 lane highway listening to Pink Floyd...thinking I was going 60 or 65 mph and only going 30mph...people honking their horns at me for going so slow and me thinking they must be crazy for driving so fast(the actual speed limit)...I went thru a tunnel stoned one time and thought I was going to die...no kidding...completely lost it...those Cheech And Chong movies...even exaggerated as they were...had a ring of truth to them....sometimes I would get off the main highway onto the back roads because I was sure the cops knew I was stoned...the funny part is that I was driving so slow it wouldn't be hard for them to notice me...of course those were the days when you could have a 5th of opened booze in your car and the cops could care less..I can remember one time a cop stopped me for speeding and I had a bottle of Jack Daniels straddled between my legs and I was driving an MG convertible and he could see right down in my car and the Jack was in plain sight...he didn't say anything about it and gave me a warning ticket for speeding....it's a different world now..
Jim the Oldbie
My right elbow hurts.
So, I'm sure this is a function of my age group...and I know Clint will appreciate this story. So, once cassette tapes were becoming the go to way to listen to music in our cars....yet much of the best music was still being produced on vinyl....we'd go buy the vinyl and the very first time we'd play it - we would also make a cassette copy so we could play it in our car...most likely all of us had a reasonably good cassette player/recorder. I had a Harmon Kardon and it did a great job of capturing a new vinyl. Also, Maxel, Teac were producing good blank cassettes. Those were the good days, but it was like clockwork, what we did to make our music portable. Goal was to get in the car as fast as we could and hit the country side, smoke weed and listen to our new music while driving 30 mph...lost, stoned and happy.
Yes to all of the above! Back in the late 70s, this was my home deck and my car deck:
This was one of the first portable cassette decks that could also make a decent recording. I'd use it to tape albums at home (right out of the shrink wrap, like you said!). When it was time to cruise (and of course it didn't matter if it was across the county or out for a pack of smokes), I'd lug this thing, along with my case of 24 Maxell UD C90s, out to the '66 Olds Dynamic 88, park the deck on the custom angled transmission hump mount I built for it, and plug the line outs into the homebrew preamp feeding a 72 watt Craig Powerplay amp, driving 2 Small Advent bookshelf speakers in the back seat! Let's roll...
Thanks for the memories GOS!
-- Jim
Jim the Oldbie
My right elbow hurts.
Oh, man...
One night, as a stupid teenager out in the family sedan on a warm summer night, tokin' up & chillin' out to, I dunno, probably Olias of Sunhillow or Stomu Yamashta or something, I got pulled over for cruising through a city park after hours (see "stupid" above), less than 5 minutes after flicking the roach out the window. The cop hadn't witnessed that (whew), but he sure could smell it. "If I take a look through your car right now, am I going to find anything?" he asked. "Because if the answer is yes, it's gonna go about ten times easier on you if you tell me about it now."
I remember the palpable wave of relief as I answered, "No, sir, go right ahead, sir!" while simultaneously thinking, no sir, the last of it just went out the window about a song and a half ago, sir! I can also remember that feeling quickly mutating into a cold, sweaty panic as I realized that I had no idea what my sister might have stashed under the dash for a rainy day! After I somehow avoided climbing out of my skin for the next few minutes, the cop finally finished feeling up my car, gave me a stern lecture, and sent me on my way.
Next morning, as I was relating this encounter to Big Sis, she said, "Come out the the car for a minute." She then proceeded to unscrew the plastic decorative logo from the center of the steering wheel on our '64 Oldsmobile, revealing a small compartment, just the right size for storing the 3 or 4 joints that were neatly tucked in there:
(visual aid provided by the movie "Slap Shot")
-- Jim
JerseyEd
400 Club - QQ All-Star
So, I'm sure this is a function of my age group...and I know Clint will appreciate this story. So, once cassette tapes were becoming the go to way to listen to music in our cars....yet much of the best music was still being produced on vinyl....we'd go buy the vinyl and the very first time we'd play it - we would also make a cassette copy so we could play it in our car...most likely all of us had a reasonably good cassette player/recorder. I had a Harmon Kardon and it did a great job of capturing a new vinyl. Also, Maxel, Teac were producing good blank cassettes. Those were the good days, but it was like clockwork, what we did to make our music portable. Goal was to get in the car as fast as we could and hit the country side, smoke weed and listen to our new music while driving 30 mph...lost, stoned and happy.
OMG! LOL! If I didn't know better I would have sworn I wrote this. I wanted to include Clint's reply as a quote too but I can't figure out how to include more than one quote in a reply (help!). It all applies to me too. I had a Gerrard Zero-Tracking Turntable and a Teac cassette deck both of which were bought around 1975. This is why of my 500+ albums, the ones I bought since that time are like new. When CD's started showing up I did the same thing and taped them on the first play since I didn't have a CD player in my car. Ah, the good old days! :steering:
I used to buy either Maxell or TDK tapes and I used to love those free "carrying cases" for the cassettes...later on after the audio cassette era was over I used those cases to store my 8mm video tapes..I'm sure you had these "carrying cases" in your car
Oh yeah, we all did. And of course TDK...for some reason I was drawing a blank on the names. I suppose TDK and Maxell were my go to brands...and then there was the whole "metal" tape thing....Sony was in the game pretty deep as well, though I preferred TDK and Maxell myself. I even went to the trouble to type directly onto lines of the inserts of the tapes....cause my handwriting wasn't the best...but I was a great typist. You know, the names of the songs.
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