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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

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RayWithFlats said:
Yeah, not only that but he carried the cassette around in his jacket for ages, getting it covered in pocket lint and the rest.

Full story in this book...


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... which I can’t recommend highly enough, a little bit dry in parts but an excellent read.
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Oh thanks for this.

I'm looking at ordering this, but the usual places I shop online have it on backorder for 3 weeks.
E-book it is then.
 
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Joe Nerve said:
Ya just made me think of these things, which thank God I haven't seen in about 40 years. If there is such thing as the devil, he lives inside this tablet.

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Dang. Sometimes I can't post images. I give up.
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Never dabbled in that stuff, but a 'friend' of mine took one back in '80 while at a Van Halen concert. He tried to take half but it crumbled so he he ended up taking the whole 'lude. He completely passed out for the entire concert (had to drag him to the car afterwards), yet the next week at school he was bragging how great it was and what an awesome show, etc. What a d*ckhead.
 
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mrcbass said:
Not me. Looks like maybe a relatively locally produced "occupy the kids" shows. We a "show" called Captain Mitch in the afternoons here. It wasn't a Mr Roger's type show like your appears to be - he just hosted re-runs and cartoons for 3 hours. But he was a bit of a local celeb who I'm sure you've never heard of.
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Sacramento born and raised. I remember Captain Mitch!:)
 
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RayWithFlats said:
Yeah, not only that but he carried the cassette around in his jacket for ages, getting it covered in pocket lint and the rest.

Full story in this book...


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... which I can’t recommend highly enough, a little bit dry in parts but an excellent read.
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I just downloaded it, do you happen to know which page the story is on? I can't figure it out from the index. Thanks


edit: found it, page 204... on the version with the same bookcover you posted.

I don't mind a dry read, I like reading non-fiction books like this.

I'm just getting into recording, I barely know anything about it. And instead of going at it right on and downloading a free daw like audacity, I'm just reading a bunch of articles.
 
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notJaco said:
OK, for my contribution...from Detroit
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SOUPY SALES!
He used to just crack us up as kids and had a touch of older audience humor as well at times.
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Soupy Sales was a little crazy. Creative and in the moment, like a.cross between Johnny Carson and Robin Williams. There was a lack of adult supervision on that set.
One New years morning he told the young audience to not wake up the parents, but take the green stuff out of their wallets and put it in an envelope. He had them address it and mail it to the show.
Funny gag, but they were inundated with letters full of money. There were no return addresses to return any of the money. He thought they would be sued and the show cancelled. It all passed without much drama though and he remained on the air.
 
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tubedude said:
Soupy Sales was a little crazy. Creative and in the moment, like a.cross between Johnny Carson and Robin Williams. There was a lack of adult supervision on that set.
One New years morning he told the young audience to not wake up the parents, but take the green stuff out of their wallets and put it in an envelope. He had them address it and mail it to the show.
Funny gag, but they were inundated with letters full of money. There were no return addresses to return any of the money. He thought they would be sued and the show cancelled. It all passed without much drama though and he remained on the air.
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Nothing says comedy like a pie in the face.
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Joe Nerve said:
I have a question.

But first, there is not a person in Brooklyn NY that grew up in the 70s that doesn't know every word in this song. It was one of the most popular songs of all our childhoods. I found out a while back though that it was just a NY thing. The rest of the world never heard it, and I found that unbelievable.

Anyhow... is the above true?

Are any of you outside of NY familiar with this?



And in a somewhat related note, I was equally dumbfounded when I found out that 99% of people outside of our circles don't known what a luthier is. Go ahead and give it a try. Ask any non musician what a luthier is. You will be very surprised.
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I'm 55, grew up in Orange County NY. I remember the show - not a fav, but I remember it.
 
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