If I had a show, I'd still be playing vinyl sometimes. Hell, I'd play shellac. I last had a show in college and I definitely remember how tricky it was eyeballing where the 45 was supposed to be placed in absence of a spider.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Spidra Webster - Dec 18, 2005 6:07:34 pm PST #1596 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
tommyrot - Dec 18, 2005 6:34:51 pm PST #1597 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When did they stop making records out of Bakelite?
When did wax cylinders become obsolete?
Was music ever released commercially recorded on wire? (Sound can be recorded on wire in the same way it's recorded on tape. Airplane black boxes used to record to wire.)
Spidra Webster - Dec 18, 2005 6:36:12 pm PST #1598 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I don't know that anything was ever commercially released on wire, but hobbyists made wire recordings of radio broadcasts.
tommyrot - Dec 18, 2005 6:39:46 pm PST #1599 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Here's a site of very old recordings (mostly wax cylinders). I just listened to a lead cylinder recording of an experimental "talking clock" recorded in 1878!
eta: oh, here's the link: [link]
eta² that was, "The world's earliest playable sound recording."
Spidra Webster - Dec 18, 2005 6:48:05 pm PST #1600 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Yes, that tinfoil site is cool. Wish they used MP3 instead of RealAudio, though.
tommyrot - Dec 18, 2005 6:52:06 pm PST #1601 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It seems to me that it must have been bizarre and mindblowing back when the first sound recordings were produced. We've now had 130 or so years to get used to the idea.
Also, that 1878 recording is available in mp3 [link] Dunno about any others on that site....
DavidS - Dec 18, 2005 9:04:12 pm PST #1602 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey Jilli! I saw a new collection of reasonably priced Bauhaus videos on DVD. I think it's just out.
At Amoeba I found a VHS of the Smashing Pumpkins videos for $5.99 so I got it. JZ kept saying that she'd never seen the video for "Tonight, Tonight" and I knew she'd like it. She declared it the greatest video she'd ever seen. (Then we had to go watch a bunch of silent films.)
Then I watched some other Smash Pump videos that I'd never seen. They had a lot of goth interest, Jilli. "Thirty Three" has all the scary doll girls and the Alice in Wonderland bits. And "Ava Adore" is like Nosferatu in Satyricon. Cool and creepy and stylish. And "Stand Inside Your Love" was Aubrey Beardsley's Salome done cyberpunky.
Atropa - Dec 18, 2005 9:06:07 pm PST #1603 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hey Jilli! I saw a new collection of reasonably priced Bauhaus videos on DVD. I think it's just out.
Wah-ha-ha-ha? Ooooh.
Then I watched some other Smash Pump videos that I'd never seen. They had a lot of goth interest, Jilli.
Smashing Pumpkins had some *great* videos, but I can't stand the lead singer's voice.
DavidS - Dec 18, 2005 9:08:18 pm PST #1604 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Smashing Pumpkins had some *great* videos, but I can't stand the lead singer's voice.
Well...maybe put on some Bartok and watch them. Billy Corgan makes a great vampire in "Ava Adore." Tall and looming and Nosferatu in a cassock, wondering around through a decadent party/video shoot.
Atropa - Dec 18, 2005 9:10:36 pm PST #1605 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Well...maybe put on some Bartok and watch them.
Heh. I remember talking to a friend about how I didn't like Smashing Pumpkins because I thought the lead singer was intolerably whiny.
"But you listen to Morrisey, the King of Whiny!"
"That's a different sort of whiny. It doesn't make me want to hit people."