Pipe smokers smell funny....
...we like it though... but that's why our spouses send us to the garage or back porch...
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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...we like it though... but that's why our spouses send us to the garage or back porch...
Pipe smokers will rule the world. If they don't run out of matches.Pipe smokers smell funny....
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Pipe smokers smell funny....
My grandaddy had THE sweetest (cherry?) smelling pipe tobacco, bar none! I'm sure it was nothing fancy, he was SO country. I coulda got addicted if he'da lemme try it. My daddy also smoked a few pipes, and different tobaccos, but nothing as pleasing (to me) as grandaddy's.
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Blue Meanies hated music. They can put that in their pipe and smoke it.
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And still thinking about it ... there is a particular Sunday when I am 17 that is utterly magical. I could do that day again. I would do that day again, with just one trivial change. Hope that won't spoil the magic.
The rain was steady today for my photo shoot. Good soft light. Great studio. A Most impressive old house. Many impressive old houses down there. So many have gone to apartments. A ground floor studio in an old house like that is spiffy.
The rain was steady today for my photo shoot. Good soft light. Great studio. A Most impressive old house. Many impressive old houses down there. So many have gone to apartments. A ground floor studio in an old house like that is spiffy.
Memory is often by association. There can be vivid memories of hearing songs for the first time, associating songs with the time and events that surrounds them.
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I associate Sultans of Swing with a very good period in my life.
Seems to me the most important times of my life are linked with the most important people in my life. Remembering Sultans of Swing reminds me of ....
Seems to me the most important times of my life are linked with the most important people in my life. Remembering Sultans of Swing reminds me of ....
The first Gibson bass I remember playing was an old high school buddy's Thunderbird IV and slothead EB-3L, back in the very early '70s.
I did buy, new, a Ripper, in the mid '70s, and I had a couple of 1978 RD Artist guitars, many years ago, along with a crappy Mark series acoustic guitar.
Some songs were made hits by MTV and similar video channels. Money For Nothing and Sultans Of Swing both had videos in high rotation and Dire Straits were part of the new royalty. It was an exciting time, music took a huge leap forward. You had to have a slick video to market your product.
The Dire Straits record was produced by Muff Winwood, Steve’s older bass playing brother. He went on to become a big exec working for record companies. Notable productions include Traffic, Mott The Hoople, and Sparks (This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us).
Today, I have several video channels delivered, none of which I’ve watched much. They seem to air reruns of old TV shows and a couple of hours of music videos after school. Not much in terms of videos or Vee-Jays. Canned programs. Things have changed.
In the studio, the late 70’s saw the introduction of the Solid State Logic G Series consoles. The drum sound on In The Air Tonight was a happy accident with the use of the SSL talkback compressor. Everyone wanted big drums in your face after that. The sound of music was forever changed by technology. That compressor is still in use today, built into SSL consoles, in outboard racks, and plugins.
SSL G+, 8” floppy drives, PC controlled fader automation, power supplies that ran hot and loud in an air conditioned machine room.
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The 70’s and into the 80’s was a sad time for some instruments. Cheesy big headstock Fender’s were released. Quality suffered. Then Fender moved production out of the USA to Japan. Heavy instruments were in, brass nuts and bridges.
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I loved those two RD Artists, and would get another if I were still interested in playing electric guitar. Outside of that cheesy Mark series acoustic guitar, I had no issues with the Norlin era.
BTW, where did you find that photo of my home studio?
BTW, where did you find that photo of my home studio?
Many are downsizing.
SSL has just introduced a budget analog console called ORIGIN, at an affordable $50K US. It has 32 channel strips, a new preamp design, and no automation. Really bare bones.
Good if you want to go old school and send many channels to outboard gear or don’t want to mix on a computer screen.
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Not sure how it will do. Full automation is important to many. There’s a fader automation retrofit but that really adds to the cost.
Call me old-school, I've always preferred the tactility and having everything "out front" of analog consoles.
As to lack of automation on the new SSL, given time, it will, eventually, become a fully automated console..............
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And here's the result of Tuesday's shoot.
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Good moody blues on a Tuesday afternoon.... It turned out well.
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