Nastalga has set in...think I'll dig out some Harry
James 78s and wind up the Victrola.
Jack
--- "D. Glenn Arthur Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jack Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- Frantisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Monday, March 7, 2005, 3:21:45 PM, Jack wrote:
> > > JD> Last pack of CDs I purchased (Memorex "Cool
> Colors")
> > > JD> contains discs with no grooves. No radiating
> groove
> > > Wait, where does the needle ride then? Is it
> 33RPM
> > > or another speed?
> > Frantisek,
> > Thought I was the only lister old enough to know
> about
> > "needles riding grooves".
>
> #blink# How else would one properly listen to
> _Frampton_Comes_Alive_ or catch the back-masking
> on the 'White Album'[*]?
>
> (And then there's the intentional skip at the end of
> "(Your Love Is Like) Nuclear Waste" so that the
> explosion
> goes on forever. And the Monty Python album that
> had two
> grooves on one side, making essentially a
> three-sided LP.
> And the really old _record_albums_ that were
> actually
> albums of records: books of sleeves holding 78s.
> But I
> haven't played with wax cylinders myself, only the
> flat
> media, 'cause I'm just a young 'un WRT recording
> technology.
> (I'll pretend for a moment not to know how old
> player-piano
> rolls are.))
>
> -- Glenn
>
> [*] AFAIK, "The White Album" is a nickname, not the
> actual
> title, so I didn't underline it. But I figured if I
> had
> called it _The_Beatles_ (I think that's the title),
> folks
> wouldn't have been sure what I meant. Then again, I
> could
> be wrong about the title...
>
>
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