Steve Jordan on drums with James at The Beacon Theatre NYC
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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My brother!
My dad's folks had an AA5 radio with an RCA jack on the back. Now that I know what I know, I'm surprised I didn't get electrocuted. We had a console Silvertone B&W TV that was about done. Daddy bought our first color TV and asked the dealer what he would give for trade-in. The dealer told him "I'll give you $25 to keep it". lol. I dismantled the TV but kept the cabinet for awhile. It had two speakers, count 'em, two! A 6x9 and 6. I dismantled a lot of old electronic stuff back in the day. I used to hang out at a TV/radio repair shop after school. I was in freaking heaven! The guy who owned the shop drank "a little". Almost all of the old TVs in the back were full of Old Crow bottles.
I ripped so many old radio and TV's apart when I was a kid, amazing I'm still alive too. I still collect radios, old receivers, ham transmitters, console radios, etc.
RCA 816K, it's got 16 tubes including a push pull pair of metal 6L6's for 25 watts out, 12" speaker in a primitive bass reflex enclosure. This sounds like a jukebox, made in 1937. This is from the internet. But there's a few AM oldies stations and shortwave stations that play oldies so I use it quite a bit when I'm home. It's got a separate amp section for bass. It's as heavy as it looks
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Today's selection. Standing in the Shadows of Motown "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted". Joan Osborne OWNS this song. The DVD/blu-ray and companion CD of the tunes is a must own. You also need to own the Dr Licks book "Standing in the Shadows of Motown - The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson".
Now, that's a RADIO! Very nice.
Those old AM/shortwave radios sounded great. My first amp came by modifying a 1930’s console radio/78 record player. It had a 15” speaker and is what left me forever addicted to tube amps.
That's Bob Babbitt on bass, one of my favorites.
No one's sure if it's Babbitt or Jamerson on this original version:
I still like the original better though, can't touch this. IMHO
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I got into electronics at 12. Had a bad hunting experience, and traded my rifle for a 5-band Heathkit shortwave receiver. Assembled that bad boy, and the rest is history. I actually enjoyed my engineering education! For one of my RF classes, the highest grade you could get was a B. To get an A, you had to pass the FCC Class 2 Radio/Telephone test. That FCC license got me my first real engineering job designing radio-based SCADA systems for in-house (Amoco (now BP) needs.
I have a bunch of those, unfortunately they're in a storage space right now. I have an RCA 811K that I got in 1972 that still works even though it needs a cap job, you can't kill those old RCA radios.
Are you a ham? I have a Heathkit DX-100 and a HW-101 for my two transmitters.
I think they named the DX-100 for its weight in lbs:
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USA, of course!
We're here to be of service. If you get in trouble, well, that's your own problem.You guys need to stop posting stuff about vintage audio. It might get me into trouble.
Like, when I'd be out photographing around town (L.A.) with my view camera and people (they looked like people, anyway) would come up and ask what movie I was making.Everyone driving by kept asking "Is that a TV" No, it's a jukebox. "Is that a TV" No, it's a jukebox.
The first guitar amp I owned was a Tech21 Trademark 60, but the first I recall using was a mid '60s Ampeg Rocket/ReverboRocket, or some such, in the very early '70s that a friend owned, discounting the Cordovox amplifier that another friend owned (the two-piece unit that had, like, 60 tubes in it).
Would you say your now a strange GOF?
Do you still crank up the old Victrola?
That's what I say to my friends all the time...
Great film. Must see companion to it is The Wrecking Crew film.
My friend who I was
Here a partial list of tunes Bob Babbitt played on, many others:
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That's Bob Babbitt on bass, one of my favorites.
No one's sure if it's Babbitt or Jamerson on this original version:
I still like the original better though, can't touch this. IMHO
Oh, yes...!
And those are why you have to have a license to operated them, legally
. The closest I got to HAM was a single side band CB with half channels and a 4 element home made quad, 39' in the air.
I've always like Del shannon, turns out Bob played on a lot of his hits:
Original version of I go to Pieces which he wrote and Peter and Gordan later covered for a big hit:
Original version of I go to Pieces which he wrote and Peter and Gordan later covered for a big hit:
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And those are why you have to have a license to operated them, legally
That DX-100 has the 11M band on it (CB band) lots of CB'ers use to use these illegally back in the day, 100 watts. It's AM though, I didn't know any CB was sideband.
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Same here, there was an old console radio in my parents attic when I was a kid, I used to switch the tubes around in it, it had no antenna on it anyway but it probably worked until I fooled with it, I was pretty young.
My Bro and I were BIG fans back in the day.
"Hats off to Larry"
Got to still have the "Runaway" album on 'Big Top' records.
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