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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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wmhill
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In the 1980s at our local music shop, they had an actual pile of tube amp heads- a dollar a watt. Black and silver face fenders, some Ampeg's, a few Univox, pretty much anything except marshall and highwatt. If I only knew...it was 1979 you could pick valve amps up for next to nothing in the ukas transistor amps became more the fashion
That looks safe. Life is a darwinian crucible.
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The big old Morley (Tel-ray) pedals with the light bulbs. 110 volt only. I still have the volume pedal version.
I used to have that very one eons ago. Super reliable and built like a tank!
Those gadgets remind me of this. I bought one in the early 1970s and I still have it.
Remind's Me i used to have Electric Mistress Flanger
Happy days
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I still use the nano pedal version of the LPB 1. And the Electric Misstress is the best flanger ever (in my opinion). Also still use a Big Muff, Small Stone, and a Holy Grail (for my guitar rig, not bass).
If you are any where near as old as I am, do you remember as a kid when you would get a cut or scratch and your mom would put this reddish looking liquid on your "boo boo" and it would stain your skin red?
I always was intrigued by the glass rod applicator.
Methylaid. Mecurochrome.
Do "they" still make this stuff?
I always was intrigued by the glass rod applicator.
Methylaid. Mecurochrome.
Do "they" still make this stuff?
In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared that Mercurochrome, generically known as merbromin, was “not generally recognized as safe and effective” as an over-the-counter antiseptic and forbade its sale across state lines.
On October 19, 1998, citing potential for mercury poisoning, halted its distribution within the United States. Sales were subsequently stopped in other countries within a few more years. It is still available in some countries.
For many years the FDA, faced with the task of regulating thousands of pharmaceuticals and food additives, many of which long predated federal oversight, has maintained the so-called GRAS (generally recognized etc) list, originally compiled as a way of grandfathering in products like Mercurochrome that had been around for ages and hadn’t hurt or killed a noticeable number of people. Recognizing that from a scientific standpoint such a standard left a lot to be desired, the FDA has been whittling away at the unexamined products on the GRAS list over time. Mercurochrome and other drugs containing mercury came up for scrutiny as part of a general review of over-the-counter antiseptics that began in 1978, and for good reason — mercury in large enough doses is a poison that harms the brain, the kidneys, and developing fetuses. While no one’s offered evidence of mass Mercurochrome poisoning, the medical literature contains scattered reports of mercury toxicity due to use of the antiseptic, and these days the burden of proof is on drug manufacturers to show that their products’ benefits outweigh the risks. In the case of Mercurochrome and many other mercury-containing compounds, that had never been done.
