Recent content by Rob Edmunds

"Bright Moon, shed your light moon, on the one I love tonight moon" - Has "moon" three times in the first line! As a Hokie have to give a shout out to this one. (VPI is now Va Tech, of course) As a member of the Techmen Glee Club we sang this at every ring dance. (I was a bass, so it's...

How was I using wrong gear as a NOOB? In about 1970 my parents gifted me with a baby blue Hagstrom FII electric guitar for Christmas. My big sister played organ in a local HS band (Farfisa Combo thru a 1964 Fender Bassman) but her boyfriend was the bass player and he lent me an Ampeg combo amp...

Did sound for the Ventures once back in the 70's and the lead guitarist's amp was covered in snakeskin!

Sure, it's just that the earlier post showed the HF set which does not get quite large enough. A Greenlee punch in 15/16th is pretty steep (over $100) since I am planning only 4 more installs. But don't need slivers everywhere (and even the punch out requires a pilot hole). Guess I'll pull...

Unfortunately the step drills you cite will not make a hole large enough for a speakon panel mount. 3/4" < 15/16". I have this same set. Just not quite large enough.

My first calculator (HP-45) cost $395 (and I was driving a $600 Mercedes!) in 1975. And it added and subtracted, which my slide rule couldn't do!

IF the former student is playing this old instrument (and taking care of it) than your grandmother made the right choice. We are stewards of these survivors and I hope that it will be passed on to another passionate person. Don't begrudge it's value. Now if YOU could be playing it -and would...

If you stretch some saran wrap around the top and secure it with a rubber band it will hold the powder in place while moving and give a nice "Poof" sound and faster burn.

My big sister's band had 4 EV 664's, a Bogen 4 channel head (100W) and two Shure VocalMaster columns. That was pretty big stuff for 1968. Dad had a station wagon and was their roadie!

The Washington Post had a Saturday supplement with a Teen's classified ad page listing instruments. Saw an ad for a Marshall 4 x 12 cabinet "Used Once by the Who". $50 (which for me would have meant mowing 17 lawns...) They also printed the lyrics and chords to a pop song each week.

I learned to play leads from this record! Had a baby blue Hagstrom FII and played through my sister's boyfriends old Ampeg bass amp, and the bass player played through a Silvertone twin twelve. Eventually got my own Silvertone but never could learn how to get a good tone. The Hagstrom had a...

Ahh, the ubiquitous "NE-2"

Actually, a bass is a viol, not an upscaled violin.

Glad you took quick action. Hope it clears up soon. As someone said, making yourself deaf because you like music is like drowning because you like to swim.

Shooter's earplugs are mechanical. There is a small diaphragm inside that can only pass so much sound, so you can hear talking when quiet but the louder the sound the more it is attenuated. There are electronic in ear devices which fall in the IEM category (in-ear monitors) which have a...