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July 27, 2014: Dave Mandl welcomes musician, label-head, and experimental-music pioneer Al Margolis to FMU for their annual summer broadcast.
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Artist | Track | Album | Approx. start time |
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Elemend Technology |
Elemend Matrixd
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16Z | 0:00:00 (Pop‑up) |
Minoy & PBK |
Endgame
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Cloisters | 0:27:16 (Pop‑up) |
Johnny Switchblade |
L'Amour Fou
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The Detachable Prostitute | 0:36:50 (Pop‑up) |
Inside/Outside |
Room 2/Room 3/Room 4/Room 5
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Rooms | 0:50:03 (Pop‑up) |
Schlafengarten |
And When U Sleep/I Don't Wanna Hear About It/You Feel/Turn Away
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Spring Cleaning!! | 1:14:27 (Pop‑up) |
Go Potty |
This Right After This
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This Right After This | 1:29:57 (Pop‑up) |
Ron Nagorcka |
Atom Bomb
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Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art | 1:56:52 (Pop‑up) |
Triple Point |
Sublimation
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Phase/Transitions | 2:11:05 (Pop‑up) |
Eric Richards |
Conch Music
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The Bells Themselves | 2:32:15 (Pop‑up) |
Dave Seidel |
Accretion
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~60 Hz | 2:33:19 (Pop‑up) |
Zanstones Zest | ? | Frilled Godwinkle | 2:46:13 (Pop‑up) |
Listener comments! | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:01pm
Dave Mandl:
Welcome, Ls and Gs. And please welcome my guest Al Margolis. |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:07pm
Carmichael:
Heya Dave and Al. Look forward to much music and banter. | |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:09pm
Phillip.(Brooklyn):
And a good evening to you Mr Mandl | |
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![]() ...if this 'Saucerful of Secrets'~Ligeti as merely a starting-off place track right @ the top is an indication - this will indeed be a rich experience !... |
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![]() Hi, Dave, special guest Al, and the multitudes. The lead track tonight was great. I like to hear what is to come. |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:27pm
Phillip.(Brooklyn):
Huh??? What??? Cassettes coming back! | |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:27pm
P-90:
Good Evening Dave and Special Guest Al. | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:28pm
Dave Mandl:
Hey there Carmichael, Phillip, RRN63, Ken, P-90! |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:29pm
dk:
pretty much instantly in love with this minoy + pbk |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:30pm
Rory:
Yeah, this is great. | |
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![]() Greetings, Dave. The last time Special Guest Al was here, the comment topic was tape decks, or the lack thereof. If the flimsiest storage medium ever conceived is back, are the decks back, too? |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:33pm
Dave Mandl:
Greetings dk, Rory, fleep. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:33pm
Dave Mandl:
Al is joining the party now... |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:33pm
al:
hi fleep.... that is an issue i am having - looking for tape decks myself.. | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:35pm
JakeGould:
So is this the disconcerting show? |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:35pm
al:
and oh yeah cassettes are back - sort of... | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:35pm
Dave Mandl:
It's even getting hard to find CD decks, so you can imagine. |
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![]() Nothing in my household that can play cassettes anymore. Anyone remember the TRS-80 computer that used cassettes as their storage medium? |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:38pm
Dave Mandl:
@Ken: I do, though I was too young to get one. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:38pm
JakeGould:
Ken, I have one cassette deck… And it is an old Radio Shack TRS-80 external deck. Looks like a normal deck but has the computer hookup. Use it for audio. Also, pretty much all of the 8-bit computers from back then had cassette drives. My Atari 410… Wow, what memories! |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:39pm
Peanut:
That was a popular computer. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:39pm
JakeGould:
Do have to fix the belt on it. But it is a great compact deck. |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:39pm
al:
i do not remember that ...wow... | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:40pm
Peanut:
we used to have a colecovision adam that had a few games on cassette. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:41pm
Sem Chumbo:
My VIC-20, and sure, the Coleco Adam I had...wow, a long time ago:-) | |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:41pm
Phillip.(Brooklyn):
This sounds like the Tokyo phone company switchboard in the 1960's | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:42pm
Dave Mandl:
Welcome Jake, Peanut, pss, Sem. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:43pm
JakeGould:
Dave, as far as CD players go is there a viable path in using computer CD/DVD/Bu-Ray drives as a replacement? I mean, yeah you have to hook up a computer but those drives seem common. |
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![]() CD players on Winduhs? Glitchy. Too much background processing. |
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![]() I have a cassette deck with a USB connector -- supposed to go into a computer for transferring old tapes to digital files, but it should work fine plugged into the TV. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 9:51pm
JakeGould:
Those cassette decks with USB basically have a sound card connected to the USB to convert the analog tape audio to digital. |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:51pm
Phillip.(Brooklyn):
AL what kind of tape is being used? Normal bias. Chrome or metal high bias | |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:53pm
al:
hi phillip well i was using in the past - and now that i am making tapes again (strange to say) - bulk loaded chrome...though i always remain skeptical that they are...masters were usually metal or chrome high bias | |
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![]() This is you, Al? www.discogs.com... |
Sun. 7/27/14 9:55pm
al:
thats' me... | |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:00pm
P-90:
Might be worth mentioning that regular cassettes were among the first data storage devices used for programmable industrial "robotic" tools. All of the motion control photography for the original "Star Wars" movie in 1976 was done using a modified aerospace "jig cutter" as a camera platform. The machine could perform the same camera movement as many times as necessary, by storing the information describing the motions in ANALOG form, as sound "files" on cassettes, before digital computers were good enough to do that kind of job reliably. Just sayin'. | |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:00pm
Carmichael:
I still have my Sony deck, perhaps waiting for moments like this. Plays metal tapes too, and has a timer switch. | |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:02pm
al:
definitely wise idea to hold on to working cassette decks..and cool about the special effects on cassettes..i had absolutely no idea...fantastic...thanks for the info | |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:03pm
Rory:
I got a Sony deck too. Found in my grandparents basement. | |
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![]() My only cassette player is a cheap boom box that I bought from the discount store. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 10:05pm
JakeGould:
Back in the pre-computer days a lot of seemingly “digital” work was really analog. Like a lot of the video green screen stuff in the 1970s & such. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:06pm
al:
that does make total sense..analog was what there was,,, | |
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![]() I just read an interview with a guy who was talking about how early field recorders would manually cut cross-fades. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:10pm
Carmichael:
Mine is a TKC ...?? TCK??? | |
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![]() ...I remember reading that for Star Wars - they went for very 'organic' non-electronic sound effects - even in 1977 terms; thwacking telephone pole support wires for blaster gun sounds, & so on... ...I often think that 'LoFi' has things in common w/ the exalted experimental Classics of the 1960s era; Sgt. Pepper was 4-track tape, after all...was observed by Satriani I think in a Guitar magazine how much more satisfying ElectricLadyland by Hendrix is than digital effects that are the same buttons pushed by everyone now: each effect on it was unique & 'handmade' - & DYI Culture shares this, seems to me... |
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![]() *DIY fergawdsake... |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:20pm
al:
interesting - john wiggins - another old cassette guy and who for a long time did much of the sound/music editing etc at HBO, used to feel that analog synths were just getting interesting when the industry introduced digital synthesizers - that took all the creativity out of selfpatching etc...and so people now making their own analog synths amd modules..diy culture tat way as well | |
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![]() DYI = Do Yourself In? Yeah, that'd be bad. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:22pm
al:
indeed...that's be bad...but do it yourself is ok... | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 10:23pm
JakeGould:
Analog synths are pretty amazing. For example Suzanne Ciani’s synth work really is amazing in my POV. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:28pm
al:
and all the new ones everyone is making is pretty amazing | |
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![]() Anyone else catch the Tape Hiss sessions on Tony Coulter's show? |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:31pm
al:
i have not heard those..will have to check it out..tape hiss over computer speakers ought to be fun... | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 10:31pm
Dave Mandl:
@Andrew: Sure. Tony's got a pretty amazing cassette collection. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:32pm
P-90:
@ al & everyone: That stuff about musical synths just getting "interesting" just before they went digital and lost that original mojo is gospel in the musical world. if you listen to records made in the early seventies, musicians were interested in using analog synths that SOUND like synths in their arrangements (think of McCartney's use of Moog parts in the opening of" Band on the Run", and for the solo in "Jet".) then synths became digital, and were used mostly to replicate the sounds of other, "traditional" instruments. | |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:33pm
al:
exactly!!! | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 10:36pm
JakeGould:
Funny but I was just talking this afternoon about how great early video games worry and how I personally find the ultra-realism in them nowadays to be horrible. In the beginning the games were all abstract in a way so the visual narrative was simpler and more playful. Now you can load a game were you just look like a real soldier killing real people & that is great why? There’s magic in the early abstraction of a technology. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:36pm
al:
it was about the sound - as synths - not as pretending to be some fake version of a "real" instrument... | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 10:37pm
Bayta:
I've no idea what you folks are talking about but I just want to say I love the music so far. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:37pm
Carmichael:
Tony Coulter's Tape Hiss shows are amazing. I have to research most of the artists, and they are NOT archived. So get 'em while you can. | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 10:37pm
Dave Mandl:
@Bayta: That's fine! Thanks. |
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![]() Al, what's the meaning of the name "If, Bwana"? |
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![]() @Carmichael, you can find some of the cassettes for purchase on Discogs and the playlists are available. but oh to be able to listen to those over and over again. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 10:40pm
Dave Mandl:
@steve: I know! "It's funny, but we are not amused." |
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![]() ha! consider me amused. |
Sun. 7/27/14 10:43pm
al:
good =- and i like the demon cat... | |
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![]() Good evening, Dave. Nice to be listening in real time for a change, and to be hearing Mr. Margolis along with you. Also, please let this serve as a request for him to play a show in Hudson NY again sometime soon! |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:04pm
Dave Mandl:
Hey George. Al's playing in Hudson on Oct. 4th or 5th. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:05pm
al:
with walter wright and dave seidel - as Three Beards Are Better Than One | |
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🎃
Sun. 7/27/14 11:06pm
bobdoesthings:
good evening all. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:06pm
P-90:
Hi bobdoes | |
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🎃
Sun. 7/27/14 11:10pm
bobdoesthings:
@p-90 - I am curious.. what is a p-90? I just googled it.. seems to be a gun? or possible guitar pickups? |
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![]() Thanks for the information, guys! I'll mark the calendar. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:12pm
al:
sure thing george...thanks | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:14pm
Carmichael:
Or a cassette tape, Bob. Maybe. | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:16pm
bobdoesthings:
oh right that is a brand of cassette isn't it?... hmm.. Im not sure of anything at the moment. where am I? |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:19pm
JakeGould:
C90 would be a cassette type. A 90 minute cassette with 45 minutes on each side. Not too sure what satantic ritual P-90 is connected to, but it sure must be unholy. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:20pm
coalhard:
Welcome to the twilight zone --folks here have encountered a green stamp loop | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:21pm
JakeGould:
And I just discovered project C-90. www.c-90.org... |
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![]() that's gold Jake. as an adendum: www.flickr.com... |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:24pm
JakeGould:
Inserts? INSERTS! J-cards my friend, J-CARDS! |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:27pm
coalhard:
anybody here remember green stamps raise hand only! | |
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![]() Dedicated C-120 user, despite their tendency to malfunction. |
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![]() <raises hand> |
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![]() Blue Chip Stamps |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:30pm
JakeGould:
I grew up in Brooklyn so I remember seeing “King Korn Stamps” signs all over the place. But never used them. Dying city. Also, Pacific Standard Simon C-120’s screw up because the tape is so much thinner than the C-60 or C-90 stuff. |
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![]() S&H GreenStamps have evolved, they are now virtual www.greenpoints.com |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:32pm
al:
hand raised as well..might have been s & h as well...i'm an old queens boy myself... | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:33pm
Carmichael:
My 1st guitar cost my parents 3 books of blue chip stamps. My brother promptly sat on the neck, destroying it. My next guitar was a Sears Silvertone, right out of the catalogue. | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:33pm
P-90:
@pss: I always had good luck with C-120's back in the cassette era. Though I remember the C-90's were more the common "standard" for things like the mix tapes we'd make to keep in the car for listening on the road... | |
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![]() I recorded a lot of radio shows, so it made sense to record on 120s, and then edit and dub as necessary. |
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![]() strangely you can still buy endless loop cassettes. who on earth is buying these besides me, id sure like to know. www.deltamedia.com... |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:34pm
coalhard:
Camden was my boyhood home till a hurricane wiped us out I think it was Hazel not sure | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:35pm
JakeGould:
I think endless loop cassette systems are still used in some store systems. Like when you go to a street fair or carnival and you hear the endless loop of a barker hawking wares. |
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![]() At some grocery stores here, you amass gasoline discounts. Spend $100 on food and earn $.10 per gallon discount. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:36pm
JakeGould:
Pacific Standard Simon, for a while h-fi VHS decks were popular for recording audio. Just stick in a VHS tape in 8 hour mode. The audio was always great. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:36pm
P-90:
@ steve: I believe people still use them for self-hypnosis, stuff like that @Carmichael: Was that one of the Silvertones that came with a case with a built-in amp and speaker? | |
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![]() Does FMU still have a cart machine? Doubt it, haven't heard anything except the bits on Music To Spazz By that might be done with loop carts. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:38pm
Dave Mandl:
@pss: No, I don't think we've had cart machines in the studio for a while. Too bad. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:39pm
P-90:
@pss: I was just about to mention cart decks, I knew they'd come into this sooner or later. There's a kind of "cart-deck museum" site on the web somewhere. Lemme see... | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:40pm
P-90:
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/carts.htm | |
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![]() Those things were mainstays of Negativland and KPFA's Over The Edge in the '80s & '90s. |
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![]() Awesome, p-90! |
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![]() A friend of mine has a show on WVKR in Poughkeepsie and I've seen their cart machine they use for PSAs. I forget what model it is. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:47pm
al:
great station vkr... | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:48pm
P-90:
They were mainstays of every broadcast booth in the land! An integral part of the art of radio broadcasting. --I remember a friend in LA back in the eighties tried to get backers interested in developing and marketing the first "digital cart deck" which was to use little floppy discs in little plastic cartridges maybe 2 inch by 2 inch. Of course desktop computers wound up doing that job, simply storing "spots" as sounds on hard drive... | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:50pm
P-90:
[storing spots as sound FILES on hard drive} | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:50pm
Clay Pigeon:
I do my show most of the time using a Radio Shack micro-cassette recorder and a Technics dual-cassette deck with a turntable. I still know a guy who can fix them and cannibalize one to fix another. GREAT SHOW DAVE! | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:51pm
coalhard:
Our machines are going to raise up one day an consider us obsolete | |
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![]() [steering spits as wound flies on herd drives] |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:52pm
Dave Mandl:
@Clay: Thanks! Love those micro-cassettes. |
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![]() Thanks for the wonderful show, gentlemen! Really enjoyed that Dave Seidel track. Al- Old Queens boy here as well! |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:53pm
al:
thanks much george.. | |
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![]() My favorite WVKR moment was many years ago. They have (to this day) a polka show on Monday evenings. At the time, the following show was called Vicious Metal. The last note of the polka closing song finished and they went instantly to the most face-melting and viscious-sounding metal song I'd ever heard. What a contrast! |
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![]() My Technics dual-cassette deck died a hideous death -- jerking and twitching in auto-reverse death-throws. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:56pm
al:
we're outta here so thanks all | |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:56pm
12539:
Thanks, Dave and Al. | |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:57pm
P-90:
Hail Clay Pigeon! Stanly Kubrick thought micro-cassettes looked so high-tech and "futuristic" in 1971 that in Clockwork Orange he showed protagonist Alex playing his beloved Beethoven's Ninth on a micro-cassette. | |
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![]() Good night and bless you all noise merchants. |
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Sun. 7/27/14 11:58pm
Dave Mandl:
Thanks, all. Have a great week! |
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![]() Those cart decks probably filled-in for many a computer in cheapo sci-fi movies. |
Sun. 7/27/14 11:59pm
P-90:
THANKS Dave and Al! | |
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