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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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GwenOnBass said:
I knew you were going to post that.
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GonePlaid said:
Really liked these guys. The fuzz/sustain on the guitar lead is perfect-IMNSHO.
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The fuzz effect is a Garnet Herzog. Basically a tiny Fender Champ on a dummy load with the output of the dummy load fed into the input of another amp. The Herzog delivers nice harmonics and sustain forever when pushed.

Randy Backman started out but connecting the output of a tube amp into the input of another. He didn't know that you weren't suppose to do that. It sounded good but he kept blowing his amp. He'd bring it in to Gar (Thomas Garnet 'Gar' Gillies) be fixed and was asked how he kept blowing his amp. Gar designed the fix and called it the Herzog. The sound is featured on their song American Woman. It is also a signature Gordie Johnson sound of Big Sugar and Grady.

You can still find Herzog's. A solid state version was put out by Tech21, called the American Woman. Not quite the same as the Herzog.

American Woman – Tech 21 NYC

Gordie Johnson talks Herzog
 
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beans-on-toast said:
I like lathes and milling machines. Big machine shop fan here. I started out in a metal shop working as a kid sweeping up.
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It is Fate
don't mess with the Norns, mum says.

The machinery I hold first hand familiarity with is all about printing. Four-colour offset press. There are sounds, at pitches, in rhythms
The men who operate the machines are a breed unto themselves. What I found useful is enough knowledge of what a printing press is that I'm able to talk one-on-one with the press foreman. If you might image this is no mean feat, must be mentioned the reporter who moves her skirt best is assigned to the police beat. What I find is a six pack of beer is enough to get the ear of the composing room foreman.

It's a different world once beyond the walls of a working newsroom

Here in the future, my bass space is all nicely rearranged with everything I need within reach.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
It is Fate
don't mess with the Norns, mum says.

The machinery I hold first hand familiarity with is all about printing. Four-colour offset press. There are sounds, at pitches, in rhythms
The men who operate the machines are a breed unto themselves. What I found useful is enough knowledge of what a printing press is that I'm able to talk one-on-one with the press foreman. If you might image this is no mean feat, must be mentioned the reporter who moves her skirt best is assigned to the police beat. What I find is a six pack of beer is enough to get the ear of the composing room foreman.

It's a different world once beyond the walls of a working newsroom

Here in the future, my bass space is all nicely rearranged with everything I need within reach.
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One of the papers used to have their press on the main floor of a building that spanned a block. There was glass on three sides. You could stand on the street and see them operating the press. Loading paper and ink, spooling it up to speed. The finished folded papers would come out the far end on a conveyor. It was a marvel to watch.

At some point, the paper moved to the suburbs. New modern presses were installed. The old building was decommissioned, you'd never know that it was a newspaper. The huge old presses were sold as scrap. It was sad to see. The building is now a hotel.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
One of the papers used to have their press on the main floor of a building that spanned a block. There was glass on three sides. You could stand on the street and see them operating the press. Loading paper and ink, spooling it up to speed. The finished folded papers would come out the far end on a conveyor. It was a marvel to watch.

At some point, the paper moved to the suburbs. New modern presses were installed. The old building was decommissioned, you'd never know that it was a newspaper. The huge old presses were sold as scrap. It was sad to see. The building is now a hotel.
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A friend had a press similar to this one in his print shop. He used it on occasion. Let's just say you need to be aware of where your hands and arms are located.

 
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beans-on-toast said:
One of the papers used to have their press on the main floor of a building that spanned a block. There was glass on three sides. You could stand on the street and see them operating the press. Loading paper and ink, spooling it up to speed. The finished folded papers would come out the far end on a conveyor. It was a marvel to watch.

At some point, the paper moved to the suburbs. New modern presses were installed. The old building was decommissioned, you'd never know that it was a newspaper. The huge old presses were sold as scrap. It was sad to see. The building is now a hotel.
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One of my most eye-opening "machines viewed through a wall of windows" moments was in '71 when I got to Germany. I was walking through town when I noticed a bunch of peeps looking through a glass wall. I went over and watched Coca Cola being bottled. So what, you say? Well, you should have seen the color of the soda BEFORE they added the coloring to it during the bottling process. I don't mean to be crude, but it was snot-green/yellow. Took awhile to get over that. The Coke in Germany at the time was very different from what was sold in the States, so I can't speak for the pre-coloring color here. Germany required that all carbonated beverages be NATURALLY carbonated, rather than having bottled CO2 infused with it. It was more syrupy. But, boy, did it mix well with dark beer! In Augsburg, there was a drink called Maß Goaß. 1/2 liter of dark beer, 1/2 liter of Coke and 4 cl of brandwein (brandy). DELICIOUS!
 
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gtmalone said:
... ... This series on the History Channel is pretty good. Wait a minute...The History Channel is showing history? :laugh:

The Machines That Built America Full Episodes, Video & More | HISTORY Channel
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IKR? Last week I accidentally caught a 12-hour actual science-a-thon on ... , get this!, ... The Science Channel! Then, just as unceremoniously as it began, it was back to all its regular non-science cra ... , uh, ... stuff. :rollno:

"Sometimes even a blind hog finds an acorn!"
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