Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[steve_rolfeca]

I knew the guy who developed the Cybertwin amp, he was a really clever engineer. Was on the original design/consulting team that came up with what became the PM-1000 for Yamaha. Having lunch with him was an experience.

Lunches with clever people!

That brings back some great memories for me. Back when I was still at AT&T Canada, I had an engineer buddy who went on to become a fine luthier. At the time, we were working our way through the Marshall schematics in Aspen Pitman's book, implementing the changes, and listening to how Tony's homebrew Marshall evolved.

Along the way, we started running into issues that we couldn't figure out. We were having lunch in the cafeteria at headquarters one day, and up comes Three Things Ivan, an older and rather quirky member of the engineering team. He glances at the schematic and mumbles something about the feedback circuit in his thick Yugoslavian accent.

We both stared at him, mystified.

It turned out that he had been a radio engineer and designer back home. For the next six months or so, every time we were at HQ, we'd buy him lunch and go to Ivan school. We ended up with a binder full of great stuff that he had hurriedly scribbled on napkins.

 

[G-Dog]

Not to set off anybody's 70s alarms

but


I wore Kalsø Earth Shoes

Those funky 70s shoes must be European because they're Earth shoes. If they were American they'd be Ground Shoes.

I've always wanted some of these Moon Shoes.

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[Deleted member 268085]

Awesome video. 50 years ago I set my Wurlitzer combo organ on top of my Farfisa Combo Compact and blew the whole thing through a Bandmaster amp with its 2x12 cab and a custom 15 cab. We were a mostly Doors band. Thank goodness we had a bass player, because I couldn't have done the Manzarek thing.

Gotta love YouTube. Didn't know they existed until YT threw them up this morning. 3 short bonus videos from the same session. All different. All fascinating.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Gotta love YouTube. Didn't know they existed until YT threw them up this morning. 3 short bonus videos from the same session. All different. All fascinating.

Yeah, I caught those last night, and then the ones with Jon Anderson, after that.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Gotta love YouTube. Didn't know they existed until YT threw them up this morning. 3 short bonus videos from the same session. All different. All fascinating.

Thanks for posting the videos. Ray had a great sense of timing. The band got a lot better when they were LOUD. Ray's keys really cut through and helped make the songs.

Been watching Robby's covid lessons on how he played their songs.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Just caught these on another thread 'round these here parts.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Which, of course..............

 

[ahc]

Which also, of course, leads us to...

 

[GwenOnBass]

Which leads GOFs to

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[ahc]

Which reminds us of an ever present problem concerning such matters:

 

[Jeff Scott]

How can we fit this in here?

 

[ahc]

Well, it probably fits much better than this...

 

[GwenOnBass]

Watching these reminds me how I nearly met Ray Manzarek. There is a Hollywood producer, and ... actually in this time know more than one because I have a lot of guests in my home ... this particular one wanted to introduce me to Ray, and to Hunter S., and neither of these proposed meetings ever happened. What I got a lot of was two producers

 

[SoulReflection]

Something made me think of this tune today...don't know what it was:

 

[beans-on-toast]

Watching these reminds me how I nearly met Ray Manzarek. There is a Hollywood producer, and ... actually in this time know more than one because I have a lot of guests in my home ... this particular one wanted to introduce me to Ray, and to Hunter S., and neither of these proposed meetings ever happened. What I got a lot of was two producers

I've heard of those Hollywood parties.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I've heard of those Hollywood parties.

What they proposed were agreements I'd no wish to pursue. I know where one of the producers came through and that was the glam rock drummer. The other one found me at work. I moved on along ....

 

[notJaco]

 

[beans-on-toast]

I'll contribute a tune, for a good old day's high from MJ.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I saw them perform that in 1968, my first big-time concert (not counting all the times I'd seen The Cleveland Orchestra before up till then).

Here is photograph I had printed many times of them that the founder of the photo business I was in made.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Here is photograph I had printed many times of them that the founder of the photo business I was in made.

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Ever make a safety copy of a negative? I'm wondering if it looses resolution.

I have drum scanned negatives and made digital copies. Not the same though.