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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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30-35 people. There'll be a thread with pictures posted later, or in the morning. The ham we met was Vic3o3. Her hubby is as well. They both have zero calls.
I'm with you one that Rose!
OK... I stand corrected. I just searched and found that Speakerlab does in fact exist again. But the kits they sell now are a hollow shell of the totally butt-kickin' stuff they used to sell.
The classic ever, was the Speakerlab Super Seven. A towering monolith of power and beer-bottle-shattering madness. That was even before you turned it up to eleven. :-)
As a starving college student all I could afford were those Fours that you saw today. Then I got my mom's Nine's and between the two pairs they might be close to what a Super Seven can do.
But those Fours have been documented to crack and remove drywall from the walls of dorm rooms. Honest. We're talking real structural damage. It was a thing to behold. There's a really funky thing that happens when a standing wave occurs in a square room... and the walls start to breathe in and out... and BAM! Stuff breaks.
Ahhh... memories. :-)
Yep. The sausage for when ya don't want sweet. And the cream cheese or apricot for sweet ones.
I like poppyseed kolaches a whole lot but they don't sell those there. I have a Czech friend I grew up with who was one of those Zabjich's from Zabjickville who makes the most awesome kolaches - and she knows I like the poppyseed best! :-)
gracias!
Well, I wish I coulda been there but I have kinda an important appointment tomorrow and didn't want to be driving home late tonight.
Gotta try it with some Rush. Tom Sawyer. Red Barchetta. Then follow up with a little of the Ludwig's Glorious Ninth. [pant]
Rose... that's really freakin' me out.
I am missin' Ruthy tonight!
Or Gustav's Stupendous Second. Pant indeed! Hmmm, I shall have to bring a few more CDs next time.
Ooohh... Mahler? good call.
How about some good 'ol Dmitri Shostakovich? I think it was #5. But my mind is fuzzy on such things.
Yeah, I gots Shosti #5... not a terrific recording, though. I think it the Vienna Philharmonic. True Shostakovich brass requires something along the lines of the Chicago Symphony or NY Philharmonic. Most European orchestral brass sections come across kind of, well, wimpy.
I do have a stupendous recording of Shostakovich #7 by Leonard Bernstein and the Chicago SO. The finale will have you wetting your drawers, I guarantee.
Eric Clapton's Layla (original version); the Guess Who's American Woman; Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze; Roy Orbison's Oh, Pretty Woman...
Try this eBay link for eBay auctions of Dark Shadows paperbacks. You can see what people are asking, and actually getting, for 'em.
For information on DS collectibles, check out this website, or this one.
About the other stuff, I don't really know, without some titles.
now you're talkin!
But still... I think all works pale in the face of the Glorious Ninth.
The possible exception was a vinyl Telarc digital copy of Tchaikovsky's 1812 with real honest brass cannon fired the old fashioned way. I think it was Andre and the London P. that did it. It beat the ever-lovin' *crap* out of other recordings that used howitzers, or worse yet, electronic cannon. Gotta have the real thing.
That Telarc Digital recording on vinyl was hysterical. If you looked close you could *see* the wiggles in the grooves at the spot where the cannon fired. If you didn't have a really first-rate head on a really good turntable... that sucker would kick the needle right OUT of the groove. At the time it was sorta the reference standard for whether your equipment was sufficiently "audiophile" or not. [sigh] Vinyl. Properly done, I still say that it was potentially better than digital.
Pink Floyd. Dark Side of the Moon.
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