• 'Guilty pleasures'

    From Martin Ridgley@1:153/7715 to Steve Kaplan on Wed Sep 20 13:37:02 2000
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    ..and I've got Sugar Town..N. Sinatra say a little prayer...
    pictures of matchstick men...Mrs Brown, dreaming of you..
    I'm a believer, CLarksville....Penny lane/Strwaberry Fields..and
    the 45 record box I bought along with those around "THAT" time :(
    Can I part with them...no......why not you ask ? <shrug> ?

    Heh. Yeah, I've still got a 45 r.p.m. record box I bought way back
    when, too. I got rid of a lot of my singles back in the 70s, and
    only have a few left, but I sure wish I had some of them back now.

    Martin
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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/7715 to Stephen Jones on Fri Sep 22 11:29:20 2000
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    I'll admit it. I once bought a single by Tommy Roe.
    'Hooray for Hazel'. In fact, I still have kind of a nostlagic
    soft spot for that song. ;-)

    I've still got a 45 of "Downtown" by Petula Clark ;>

    Heh. Yeah, I still *love* that song! ;-) In fact, it's
    probably still one of my favourite songs of the sixties.

    I guess we're getting into the realm of 'guilty pleasures' here.
    I've got a bunch of 'em! I'm not going to post a list, 'cause I'll
    bet some people here have worked pretty hard to forget some of this
    stuff. <grin> (Also, I don't need any more people starting to
    question my sanity!) ;-\

    Martin
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  • From Don DesChamps@1:167/133 to Martin Ridgley on Sun Sep 24 01:37:00 2000
    I've still got a 45 of "Downtown" by Petula Clark ;>

    Heh. Yeah, I still *love* that song! ;-) In fact, it's
    probably still one of my favourite songs of the sixties.

    Bet you didn't know she did stuff in French too. She was quite a hit
    here in Quebec way back when.

    I guess we're getting into the realm of 'guilty pleasures' here.
    I've got a bunch of 'em! I'm not going to post a list, 'cause I'll
    bet some people here have worked pretty hard to forget some of this
    stuff. <grin> (Also, I don't need any more people starting to
    question my sanity!) ;-\

    I'll have to dig through my 45 case and see what moldy oldies I have in
    there. Probably all in pretty poor condition as I used to carry them
    around to parties where they got played on all sorts of terrible phonos.

    just bought myself a "vintage" Gibson Falcon amp. Single 12" speaker
    with 2 6BQ5 tubes. Reverb and tremolo. Haven't had a chance to really
    "wring" it out yet. First shot at it it sounded pretty good. Needs a
    little cleaning up.

    Don

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  • From Bill Riley@1:218/704.6 to Martin Ridgley on Mon Sep 25 03:07:55 2000
    Martin Ridgley wrote in a message to Steve Kaplan:

    Steve Kaplan wrote to Stephen Jones <=-

    Heh. Yeah, I've still got a 45 r.p.m. record box I bought way
    back when, too. I got rid of a lot of my singles back in the
    70s, and only have a few left, but I sure wish I had some of them
    back now.

    That's one of the few things I've managed to hang on to over the years, I've got hundreds of them. My mother threw out all my comic books and baseball cards when I was in the army. You don't even want to know the kind of prices they would bring now.

    Bill

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  • From Bill Riley@1:218/704.6 to Don DesChamps on Mon Sep 25 03:23:17 2000
    Don DesChamps wrote in a message to Martin Ridgley:

    I've still got a 45 of "Downtown" by Petula Clark ;>

    Heh. Yeah, I still *love* that song! ;-) In fact, it's
    probably still one of my favourite songs of the sixties.

    Bet you didn't know she did stuff in French too. She was quite a
    hit here in Quebec way back when.

    Oh, I'll bet Pet Clark had a lot of experiance at frenching! ;))

    Bill

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  • From Steve Kaplan@1:342/3 to Martin Ridgley on Tue Sep 26 09:44:00 2000
    "45 collection"
    You realize how few of todays youth have seen a dial telephone, or non remote TV ?

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  • From Rich Lockyer@1:218/704 to Steve Kaplan on Wed Sep 27 01:15:22 2000
    Steve Kaplan wrote in a message to Martin Ridgley:

    "45 collection"
    You realize how few of todays youth have seen a dial telephone, or
    non remote TV ?

    Man has not walked on the moon during the life of the owner of my company (he inherited it last April).



    C-ya! Rich

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  • From Gary Gilmore@1:2410/400 to Rich Lockyer on Wed Sep 27 06:42:50 2000
    Man has not walked on the moon during the life of the
    owner of my company (he inherited it last April).

    My daughter (12) saw some 33rpm albums about 6 months ago, and asked my wife and I what they were. Man, did I feel old. She wondered how you play them, so
    we had to explain it. She was amazed.

    --gary

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  • From Rich Lockyer@1:218/704 to Gary Gilmore on Thu Sep 28 00:28:31 2000
    Gary Gilmore wrote in a message to Rich Lockyer:

    Man has not walked on the moon during the life of the
    owner of my company (he inherited it last April).

    My daughter (12) saw some 33rpm albums about 6 months ago, and
    asked my wife and I what they were. Man, did I feel old. She
    wondered how you play them, so we had to explain it. She was
    amazed.

    I'm waiting for someone to jump in here and say "We walked on the moon?"

    Closer to topic, remember the Accutrak turntables? They came out about 2 or three years before CDs hit the market and featured basic CD-like programming for LPs. Never had one, saw a few in stores. It was like a "Close-N-Play" with the arm built into the lid and programming keys on the front. I don't know how it sensed the track boundaries (it'd be easy with today's optics), but
    you could play individual tracks, re-order the entire side, or re-play individual tracks or selection groups.

    Sounded pretty swift in 1979.



    C-ya! Rich

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  • From Bill Riley@1:218/704.6 to Gary Gilmore on Fri Sep 29 09:12:47 2000
    Gary Gilmore wrote in a message to Rich Lockyer:

    Man has not walked on the moon during the life of the
    owner of my company (he inherited it last April).

    My daughter (12) saw some 33rpm albums about 6 months ago, and
    asked my wife and I what they were. Man, did I feel old. She
    wondered how you play them, so we had to explain it. She was
    amazed.

    It's funny, the teenagers around here really like vinyl. All the Gen X record stores cary a large collection of 33's and 45's put out by newer groups. Maybe
    it's just a Northwest thing.

    Bill

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  • From Gary Gilmore@1:2410/400 to Bill Riley on Fri Sep 29 15:04:46 2000
    It's funny, the teenagers around here really like
    vinyl. All the Gen X record stores cary a large
    collection of 33's and 45's put out by newer groups.
    Maybe it's just a Northwest thing.

    Nope. It's nationwide. Vinyl is making a comeback. A small comeback, but a comeback none the less. I don't know where it started, but I'm starting to see
    turntables in catalogs again, and more and more releases. Gee, maybe the days of great album cover art can return too. You just can't get great cover art (like in the 60s/70s) on a 4.7" x 4.7" space. It's a lost treasure.

    You can't tell me you never sat there staring at an album cover while listening
    to the album. I can remember tripping while staring at King Crimson's "Court Of The Crimson King" album. <laugh>

    --gary

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  • From Steve Kaplan@1:342/3 to Rich Lockyer on Sat Sep 30 14:38:26 2000
    man has not walked on the moon during the life of the owner of my co.. The biggest kick I got was when a few of us were talking about the older car models...Someone mentioned a Carmen Ghia..and one of the guys...29 year old Farmington Cop goes.."What's that" ?

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  • From Steve Kaplan@1:342/3 to Gary Gilmore on Sat Sep 30 14:41:24 2000
    Gary....Figured you'd have turntables and records somewhere around your little "shop area" amongst the guitar parts, that your daughter would've seen earlier...hmmmm

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  • From Steve Kaplan@1:342/3 to Rich Lockyer on Sat Sep 30 14:44:56 2000
    Rich....Seems as tho within the last decade companies like Damark, and Heartland were selling jukebox type 45 setups...refurbished...If I had a bigger
    condo..I'd have the jukebox near the pinball machine...and above that I'd hang the Bridgette Bardeux in hiphuggers poster with the Peter Max blacklight posters :)

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  • From Steve Kaplan@1:342/3 to Bill Riley on Sat Sep 30 15:10:32 2000
    "north weat thing"
    Rich, I think not...Vinyl..albeit to a small scale. aslways existed thru=out..didn't pearl jam always use vinyl in the early 90's. as well as one or two other groups ?..turntables were always to be found somewhere..even if they were the stanton DJ type.... now finding a cartridge for the BIC turntable..that was a bit tough

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  • From Steve Kaplan@1:342/3 to Gary Gilmore on Sat Sep 30 15:16:22 2000
    "court of the Crimson King"
    WOW....I just put on the moody blues.."search for the lost chord", and I don't need any substance to "trip"...We did have some real trippy stuff :) Fortunealtly something inside me said.."you won't toss your
    vinyl collection". I'm also the glad recipient of MANY others saved "frisbees"....wATCHED many LP's tossed from balconies :(

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  • From Stephen Jones@1:218/704.7 to Martin Ridgley on Fri Oct 6 08:28:34 2000
    Martin Ridgley wrote in a message to Stephen Jones:



    I guess we're getting into the realm of 'guilty pleasures' here.
    I've got a bunch of 'em! I'm not going to post a list, 'cause I'll
    bet some people here have worked pretty hard to forget some of this
    stuff.

    Nothing guilty at all. We liked them back in the day... Maybe a sound track for
    another time.


    Stephen

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  • From Bill Riley@1:218/704.6 to Gary Gilmore on Sat Oct 7 03:31:04 2000
    Gary Gilmore wrote in a message to Bill Riley:

    You can't tell me you never sat there staring at an album cover
    while listening to the album. I can remember tripping while
    staring at King Crimson's "Court Of The Crimson King" album.
    <laugh>

    Oh yeah, album art is one of the things I really miss about lp's. I can remember my girlfriend sneaking down the zipper of "Sticky Fingers." It was really a laugh.

    Bill

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  • From Bill Riley@1:218/704.6 to Steve Kaplan on Sat Oct 7 03:41:13 2000
    Steve Kaplan wrote in a message to Bill Riley:

    "north weat thing"
    Rich, I think not...Vinyl..albeit to a small scale. aslways existed thru=out..didn't pearl jam always use vinyl in the early 90's. as
    well as one or two other groups ?..turntables were always to be
    found somewhere..even if they were the stanton DJ type.... now
    finding a cartridge for the BIC turntable..that was a bit tough

    I've got a Kenwood KD-500 that was given to me. Checking the web again, the cartridge for it is $750 on sale...

    Bill

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  • From Don DesChamps@1:167/133 to Gary Gilmore on Mon Oct 9 04:28:00 2000
    Nope. It's nationwide. Vinyl is making a comeback. A small
    comeback, but a comeback none the less. I don't know where it
    started, but I'm starting to see turntables in catalogs again, and
    more and more releases. Gee, maybe the days of great album
    cover art can return too. You just can't get great cover
    art (like in the 60s/70s) on a 4.7" x 4.7" space. It's a
    lost treasure.

    You can even buy a turntable at Radio Shack! I agree on the cover art.
    At my age, even with my glasses, I need a magnifying glass to see the
    "whole" picture, not to mention reading the liner notes.

    You can't tell me you never sat there staring at an album
    cover while listening to the album. I can remember
    tripping while staring at King Crimson's "Court Of The
    Crimson King" album. <laugh>

    How about Carly Simon album covers. Of course, I'm a dirty old man.

    Don

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  • From BRETT MCCOY@1:10/345 to DON DESCHAMPS on Mon Oct 9 21:23:56 2000
    You can even buy a turntable at Radio Shack! I
    agree on the cover art.
    At my age, even with my glasses, I need a
    magnifying glass to see the
    "whole" picture, not to mention reading the
    liner notes.

    Best Buy has turntables also -- at a reasonable
    price. Almost bought ne the other day, before I
    realized I have no space for one. Guess I'll have
    to move into a bigger place first... I've got
    somehting like 4 big milk crates full of vinyl
    that are just collecting dust.

    -- Brett


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  • From Don DesChamps@1:167/133 to Brett Mccoy on Fri Oct 13 14:21:00 2000
    Best Buy has turntables also -- at a reasonable
    price. Almost bought ne the other day, before I
    realized I have no space for one. Guess I'll have
    to move into a bigger place first... I've got
    somehting like 4 big milk crates full of vinyl
    that are just collecting dust.

    I have tons of vinyl and at least 3 turntables available to me. I even
    have one hooked up to the system now. I've been transferring some
    records to tape. May even try a record to CD transfer.

    Don

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  • From BRETT MCCOY@1:10/345 to DON DESCHAMPS on Sun Oct 15 22:14:16 2000
    I have tons of vinyl and at least 3 turntables
    available to me. I even
    have one hooked up to the system now. I've been
    transferring some
    records to tape. May even try a record to CD
    transfer.

    That's what I need to do, transfer some of those
    out of print records to MP3s so my grand children
    will be able to hear them. :-)

    -- Brett
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  • From Steve Kaplan@1:342/3 to BRETT MCCOY on Wed Oct 18 09:51:52 2000
    "so my great grandchildren will be able to hear them".; we had lot's of great stuff on vinyl that never made it to CD or tape.

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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/831 to Stephen Jones on Thu Oct 12 11:21:08 2000
    Stephen Jones wrote to Martin Ridgley <=-

    Martin Ridgley wrote in a message to Stephen Jones:
    I guess we're getting into the realm of 'guilty pleasures' here.

    Nothing guilty at all. We liked them back in the day...
    Maybe a sound track for another time.

    True enough, but it's still kind of embarrassing to think of some
    of the stuff I listened to and liked, way back when! ;-)

    Martin
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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/831 to Steve Kaplan on Thu Oct 12 11:30:10 2000
    Steve Kaplan wrote to Bill Riley <=-

    I have that one somewhere around "the Israelites".

    Desmond Dekker, if I recall correctly... right? Haven't heard it
    in many years, but I liked that one, too.

    I have a few that are as current as Blood Sweat and Tears too :)

    I don't know much by BS&T, but one of the bands I was in way back
    in the '70s used to do, "Spinning Wheel", along with a few things by
    Chicago. It was the first of several bands I was in that had a
    brass/horn section and I remember it was a pretty cool experience for
    me as a young musician.

    Martin
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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/831 to Bill Riley on Thu Oct 12 11:35:12 2000
    Bill Riley wrote to Stephen Jones <=-

    Well...some of us were buying the Stones, the Bluesbreakers,
    the Kinks, ect. Not *all* of us had bublegum mentalities.

    Heh... well the stuff I was listening to and buying in 1964 was a
    lot different from what I was into just a couple of years later in
    '66 and '67. But I've always had a fondness for close harmony and
    catchy melodies. To this day I still like a lot of stuff that many
    people would probably classify as 'bubblegum', ..or close to it. ;-)

    Martin
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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/307 to BILL RILEY on Thu Nov 2 06:54:00 2000
    BILL RILEY wrote to MARTIN RIDGLEY <=-

    Martin Ridgley wrote in a message to Steve Kaplan:
    ...I've still got a 45 r.p.m. record box I bought way back when...
    I got rid of a lot of my singles back in the 70s, and only have
    a few left, but I sure wish I had some of them back now.

    That's one of the few things I've managed to hang on to over the
    years, I've got hundreds of them.

    Cool! ;-) I hung on to most of my 12" vinyl albums, but only kept
    a few of my favourite singles which were still in good shape - probably
    no more than about 40 of them, I'd guess.

    My mother threw out all my comic books and baseball cards when
    I was in the army. You don't even want to know the kind of
    prices they would bring now.

    Ouch! I've heard a few stories like that. I had a friend who lost
    half of his life-long collection of comic books and hockey cards a
    few years ago - in a divorce settlement of all things! They were
    worth thousands!

    Martin
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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/307 to DON DESCHAMPS on Thu Nov 2 07:01:00 2000
    DON DESCHAMPS wrote to MARTIN RIDGLEY <=-

    re: "Downtown" by Petula Clark...
    ...I still *love* that song! ;-) In fact, it's probably
    still one of my favourite songs of the sixties.

    Bet you didn't know she did stuff in French too. She was quite
    a hit here in Quebec way back when.

    Actually yeah, I did know that. I seem to recall that she married
    a Frenchman and moved to France back in the late '60s or early '70s,
    and that she had a number of hits there, too.

    I'll have to dig through my 45 case and see what moldy oldies I have
    in there. Probably all in pretty poor condition as I used to carry
    them around to parties where they got played on all sorts of
    terrible phonos.

    Yeah, that was the case with a lot of mine, too. Most of those badly
    worn ones are gone now, but I kept a small box of favourites that are
    still in pretty decent condition.

    just bought myself a "vintage" Gibson Falcon amp. Single 12" speaker
    with 2 6BQ5 tubes. Reverb and tremolo. Haven't had a chance to really "wring" it out yet. First shot at it it sounded pretty good. Needs a little cleaning up.

    Cool. I'm really not all that familiar with guitar amps and I don't
    know that model. I need an amp though, and I'm currently keeping my
    eyes on the local Buy & Sell papers for something along those lines
    (i.e. tubes, single 10" or 12", reverb, etc.).

    Martin
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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/831 to Steve Kaplan on Tue Nov 7 10:20:02 2000
    Steve Kaplan wrote to BRETT MCCOY <=-

    "so my great grandchildren will be able to hear them".; we
    had lot's of great stuff on vinyl that never made it to CD
    or tape.

    That's one of the main reasons why I'm still hanging on to some
    of my vinyl - you can't get it on CD. That, and the fact that I've
    collected so much of the stuff over the years that I simply can't
    afford to replace it all! ;-\

    Martin
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  • From Martin Ridgley@1:153/831 to Don DesChamps on Wed Nov 8 09:49:04 2000
    Don DesChamps wrote to Brett Mccoy <=-

    I have tons of vinyl and at least 3 turntables available to me.
    I even have one hooked up to the system now.

    Likewise. I've got three turntables, two of which are currently
    hooked up. The third is one that I keep mainly for playing 78 r.p.m.
    records and I only hook it up when I need to either play, or tape a 78.

    I've been transferring some records to tape. May even try a
    record to CD transfer.

    I've got a few of my vinyl records transferred to tape - just so that
    I don't wear out some old favourites, or rare ones. I know a few people
    who have made digital copies of some of their records, and some day -
    when I get the required gear - I plan to do the same.

    Martin
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