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Steely & Clevie Jeremy Irons Steven "Tin Tin" Duffy

Pablo Moses Aaron Neville Miriam Makeba

Damn! For a thousand bucks, I wanna be personally wetted, rotated, scrubbed, and vacuumed on "both sides simultaneously" (preferably by two young lasses).

I always do $20, but I only go to see one band here anyway...

Concertape 120's were the 70's choice for me. RadioShack used to sell these fold-out binders that would hold 24 tapes (4X6). With 2 hours on each tape, I'd make these massive 48 hour compilations for friends and hand them binders of music they'd like. In the early 80's, Studio was the choice because I was working for a distributor and could get 'em real cheap. They had good sound too. Mid 80's to early 90's was the era of the Denon HD8- 100's. Told everyone I could about these great tapes. Sound quality was incredible and often scored high in Hi-Fidelity-type audio tests in magazines. Up to just a few years ago, TDK CD Power 110 was the choice for it's great repo of BASS. Surrounded by cassettes here - thousands of them. Audio everywhere! Radio programs, audio events, live shows, sound-text experiments, a load of stuff that are joyful slices of one-off events that can be relived (VHS audio and DAT too) Some of the tapes are wrapped in melted records - softly molded old LPs that are wrapped around a cassette and have to be broken just to get to the cassette inside. Some are painted, decoupaged little artworks, etc... Still transfering to CDR and discovering past joys. Earlier this week, one of the doors on the dual-deck decided not to close, so it's time to look for another good machine. Just might consider one of those two Pioneer units that Rob was talking about.

Well Clem, Kansas has it's ups and downs... ...oh, wait a minute - no it doesn't... anyway, there's some definite beauty in starkness (right now I'm listening to Cage's Branches), but the real howler here is the ur-scientifics - even comparing apples & oranges! can't help make you smile dontcha think?

Scientific Proof!

Ari-Up Da-Side Sir Edward Downes

Curious "obit" on him from nearly 2 years ago: George Best

I don't know who he is, but I couldn't help but notice these unintentional puns... Anyway, I agree that this down-to-his-last-hours watch is creepy and very unprofessional.

Thanks! Nothing blinks...

The weather was nice enough to do this:

Passed her sell-by date

Before I met my wife, I used to take LPs into the shower with me.

It was nominated for a Grammy that year. I remember an extra long interview on that disc too.

Yup! manny times!

Yeah man! Oh man! I bought a qatar there once...I think, 6 string...

These were John "Artist's House" Snyder productions weren't they? I guess kudos to him for bringing the "Feel Trio" to Herb Alpert's label.

aaaah, yes! I remember the LPs now. Good looking those were! Still have them around here somewhere.

I know what Adam's talking about here. I was a bit surprised by the look of this series when they arrived at our store. Not sure what the thought was behind it, but it may have encouraged some visually-stimulated buying. The series didn't last long (a shame really), but it did get some folks in our store to become a little more adventurous - mostly after they became cut-outs. Why the series didn't continue, don't know... It was probably the Song X Syndrome. This is when you buy a recording under a prejudiced expectation (artwork or sound-based...) and return the item after it turns out to be wildly different (in a negative way) than you had ever expected.

Oh yes. I can see this is much easier! (meanwhile, our friend in Webster NY has probably been cranking out his burned discs)

Sheeesh...just what the hell was pixie boy thinking?

Oh...you said surf! sorry

Thanks Claude for your answer. I guess that I'm going to have to look into this a little further. I've been doing this for a few years now (I archive video and audio) and it's always seemed that the steps taken that involve separating the VOB files, then demux to AC3s (which itself is lossy), and then to AIFF (or WAV) files, then downsampling to 44.1kHz...well, it just seems so excessively lossy, so maybe I need to explore some video/audio software forums to see what I can come up with. Thanks again, Rod