Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

Record -> cassette recorder -> cassette + portable cassette player = freedom

somewhere someone or multiple someones got their nose seriously out of joint about that. RIAA or something.

 

[Jeff Scott]

He apparently gave it up last October. They all have health issues that require working on a cleaner lifestyle.

No !?!?!? Really?!?!?!?!?

Changing gears
My new Toyota has no CD player...I have to upload all my CDs to my old laptop..Load them onto a flash drive stick....plug that into my car USB and play my albums...but it is glitchy and slow to find the right album on the go...then it freezes for a while or keeps playing the same track...Grrrrr...I miss my CD player

Plus....my new laptop also does not have a CD burner...so I had to buy an external CD drive...Grrrr again

This is called PROGRESS.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Changing gears
My new Toyota has no CD player...I have to upload all my CDs to my old laptop..Load them onto a flash drive stick....plug that into my car USB and play my albums...but it is glitchy and slow to find the right album on the go...then it freezes for a while or keeps playing the same track...Grrrrr...I miss my CD player

Plus....my new laptop also does not have a CD burner...so I had to buy an external CD drive...Grrrr again

Most are like that today and a right pain to sort out. I use a small sized Samsung 1T solid state drive in my GM. Every time I turn the car off it re-indexes the disk, looses where it was, and sometimes doesn't index all the directories properly. The one thing about my car that I very much dislike.

These car companies do not do software well.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Does your external CD drive not work in your car?
.

Not in mine. That would be asking too much.

 

[SoulReflection]

Changing gears
My new Toyota has no CD player...I have to upload all my CDs to my old laptop..Load them onto a flash drive stick....plug that into my car USB and play my albums...but it is glitchy and slow to find the right album on the go...then it freezes for a while or keeps playing the same track...Grrrrr...I miss my CD player

Plus....my new laptop also does not have a CD burner...so I had to buy an external CD drive...Grrrr again

I do not have a new Toyota but, can you not use blue tooth from your cell phone?

Personally, I disliked single CD players because they lacked enough good songs and I had to continuously (and manually) replace them. A 10 + 1 CD system was good, but not as good as being able to load hundreds of individual favorite tunes on my cell phone and play them thru blue tooth or car play.

 

[beans-on-toast]

(repeating a story)

the finest reporter I ever met entered journalism from her job as a PI in Detroit. She won that job over a game of pool.

Takes a certain tenacity to hold a story to its end. Actual investigative reporting is expensive.

Standard reporter issue notebooks are/were slender. Every reporter at every newspaper I ever saw had boxes of those notebooks, kept in apparent perpetuity in the event of legal stuff. The bulk of what's in there are names spelled correctly, quotations accurately recorded, and of course anything to assist recall. Wherever you've been doesn't matter when you're sitting at a desk banging out copy to your editor's spec. Seven, eight stories on deadline is when the newsroom is running full tilt. Go home, come back and do it again.

A reporter who is <ahem> promoted to editor, I imagine is very much like an enlisted man being promoted to officer rank. Folks who were friendly may not be so friendly now, and folks who used to be pretty unfriendly are friendly. Editors who are friendly with the folk in the composing room are probably on the endangered species list.

Leaving the editor's desk for other pursuits is another story.

I used to have my own shorthand when taking notes in lectures. My cousin was taking a stenography course and taught me some of the squiggles. Recorded in a steno pad. I eventually got a cassette recorder but it was slower to re-listen to the lecture and transcribe it.

These days lectures are streamed live and captured, nobody need show up.

 

[GwenOnBass]

These car companies do not do software well.

It's all outsourced. And the outsource outsources through multiple subcontracts. No accountability. Goes without saying by the time the software is in production in a car it's out of date.

 

[SoulReflection]

An early Happy Soulful Sunday...here is a special one for our current times. Just listen to her words...

 

[Jeff Scott]

I used to have my own shorthand when taking notes in lectures. My cousin was taking a stenography course and taught me some of the squiggles. Recorded in a steno pad. I eventually got a cassette recorder but it was slower to re-listen to the lecture and transcribe it.

These days lectures are streamed live and captured, nobody need show up.

 

[Jeff Scott]

An early Happy Soulful Sunday...here is a special one for our current times. Just listen to her words...

 

[SoulReflection]

And the point is?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Saturday Reprise

Fifty six years ago, Sunday February 9, 1965. Not that many weeks after JFK was shot on November 22 1963 the US was torn apart, the Beatles arrived in NYC. The Los Angeles Times: "The joy in the group's new sound and look, played out on the faces of Sullivan's audience full of screaming teenagers, gave a grieving nation a much-needed reason to smile once again".

Beatlemania ushered in change that shook the world like nothing else. It brought people together. Seventy-three million people warmed up their sets and tuned in to watch that first Ed Sullivan show from Studio 50 in NYC.

Note the tall Ampeg fliptop amp behind John.

Nice depth of field.

 

[beans-on-toast]

And the point is?

Interesting history of the band: Gladys Knight & the Pips - Wikipedia

When Gladys left the family band in the early days to have her family, the rest of the Pips didn't go very far on their own. When they reformed as Gladys Knight & The Pips and signed on to Motown, the hits started rolling.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I do not have a new Toyota but, can you not use blue tooth from your cell phone?

Personally, I disliked single CD players because they lacked enough good songs and I had to continuously (and manually) replace them. A 10 + 1 CD system was good, but not as good as being able to load hundreds of individual favorite tunes on my cell phone and play them thru blue tooth or car play.

I have hundreds of home made CD's that were exclusively for listening to in the car. The song selections were designed to mesh well together, they were good "albums" to listen to. I tried carplay with my iPhone but somehow it didn't work out for me. I never got around to organizing my phone songs into playlists because many of the songs were not in my iTunes library. I liked playing bought CD's or the ones that I made in the car. But getting the new car without a CD ended that. So I went with the home made albums loaded onto a SS drive plus my iTunes library.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Do you know what stings are best suited to you and this bass?

Hey @beans-on-toast ! I use Ernie Ball Extra Slinky's. Used them for years. I used to also use Hartke light gauge but they became hard to find.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Heard the Slinky's are pretty good strings. I'd expect that of EB.

Always in for George. All of them, really, but George. Paul's playing is a whole lesson unto itself. Although never really wanted a violin bass. Sir Paul's Hofner is part of the British Invasion sound but to me it's the Epiphone Rivoli I hear.

Kids today have no clue what The Beatles are in 63-4. It's still clear to me.

 

[beans-on-toast]

When the Beatles arrived in February 1964, George was 20, soon to turn 21, Paul was 21, both John and Ringo were 23 years old. What a wild ride for a kid.

They recorded Sgt. Pepper around three years later between Dec 6 1966 and April 21 1967. That was a long way from I Want To Hold Your Hand.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I was 8 in 1964.

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[Fat Freddy]

I was 8 in 1964.

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I remember the Rutles.....Eric Idle and co...

 

[beans-on-toast]

I was 8 in 1964.

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Kids always looked up older kids that challenged the adult generation.

I recall George being financially behind the Rutles. His company, HandMade Films was set up to finance Python's The Life Of Brian. Other Monty Python movies were jointly financed by a number of British Rock bands including Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull. Band and comedy antics were not dissimilar. They must have done alright. Monty Python's Flying Circus was a funny TV series put on by the BBC.