I usually like to be the different one in the bunch. Currently using an AKG D8000M.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Also, they are the hammer of choice for roadies/stage techs.
Here, here!
The old Starbird with similarly old 6" fresnel mounted to it. (Sorry about removing the laundry before making this photo).
AKG mics are good performers. I like an D2 as a bass mic. If I had to do it again I’d get a Telefunken M82. I also like the C414 for acoustics.
Everyone likes to be in the spotlight when performing, although bass players often stand in the back or off to the side.
What drummers do as a side job.
Based on my observation in regards to the the lack of safety features in respect to the machine guarding, I am going to guess the most popular names in the factory are "Lefty" and "Stubby".
Based on my observation in regards to the the lack of safety features in respect to the machine guarding, I am going to guess the most popular names in the factory are "Lefty" and "Stubby".
No hearing protection. These old videos are pretty alarming. Things aren’t any better in some countries today, Hyderabad, India.
Wouldn't be much of a stretch to turn this into a nice Monty Python sendup.
Just a wild stab here, but I'm guessing that Lock-out/Tag-out, eye and hearing protection and steel-toed safety boots are unknown.
WHAT?
To get the full experience, it is important to watch in full screen mode with headphones on cranked as loud as they can go!
I looked very carefully to see if any of those hinges were what we bought for the few places wee needed repro ball finial hinges, but those in the video are steel; ours are solid brass (probably, the factory next door
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It felt like I was watching an SNL sketch with Phil Hartman narrating the video. Go back and listen again.....
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Right up there with laws and sausage.
The guys in the pressing plant were not above the occasional joke. In the early 70s an Army buddy bought a Hank Williams LP and disc 1 of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma was packed inside.
The guys in the pressing plant were not above the occasional joke. In the early 70s an Army buddy bought a Hank Williams LP and disc 1 of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma was packed inside.
Life in the 1930’s seems to be a bit of alright.
Assembly line workers certainly earned their pay.
Assembly line workers certainly earned their pay.
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First automation, then computers, were to have made our work weeks shorter.
Still at 40 loooong hours per week here. The older I get the longer it feels. Oddly, some days just fly by like a couple hours.
I'm a meat and potatoes guy on music. I played 70's and 80's rock during my touring career. Mostly a bar band and a lot of outside shows, mostly on flatbeds LOL. The de facto standard for us was mic-ing with SM57's and singing into SM58's. We always had a dozen or more. They were idiot (read drunk customer) proof and very durable. We always had a soundman that knew how to repair them too.
On hearing-- For a couple decades I always stood on the right side of the stage (because of my left handed bass neck) near the drummer and his ride cymbal. Now I have some high end loss in my left ear. It's never hindered my work or social activities in any way. Occupational hazard I guess...
[dream]These days, all that is done with a smurf'fn* (sorry, La Contessa
), and a couple a simple apps.[/dream]So, you guys played a lot of Meatloaf to everyone who was dancing the Mashed Potato?
Better that than a dump truck!
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So called stage trucks are pretty popular. At the low end, you have performing at the back of my uncle’s El Camino (sorry no picks of that one).
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