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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #300 on: 31 Mar 2010, 20:44 »

Ellic Crapton? 

So solly...
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #301 on: 31 Mar 2010, 21:02 »

I don't know what you guys have against Eric Clapton; I really like him.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #302 on: 31 Mar 2010, 21:23 »

Two words:

Wonderful Tonight.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #303 on: 01 Apr 2010, 03:37 »

No one wants to play "Giggles, Goggles"? 

Who has anything against Eric Clapton? (Wait, okay, akronnick has a point.) But that was an old, Faye-style insult—'Hey, 'Eric Crapton,' play that lick again!'

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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #304 on: 01 Apr 2010, 04:31 »

For the record, Clapton was great.

In 1970.

The stuff he's made since I've been old enough to follow music has been... less than his best.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #305 on: 01 Apr 2010, 05:43 »

Yeah, I thought all that was bad, too, at least until Rod Stewart decided he was Mel Tormé. Kind of put it into perspective.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #306 on: 01 Apr 2010, 08:18 »

Two words:

Wonderful Tonight.

You're calling him a bad guitarist because of one bad song?  That's kind of unfair, considering all the excellent songs he has.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #307 on: 01 Apr 2010, 10:15 »

No, I'm (and I think akronnick as well) calling him an enormously gifted, influental guitarist who, after revolutionizing rock music, wrote a few sub-par songs that wound up getting twice as much airplay as any of his good stuff until recent years. I hate "Wonderful Tonight" and, while I appreciate the sentiment of "Tears in Heaven," that wore kind of smooth after the first hundred or so plays, too. I have to say, one great thing about mp3's and net radio is you can avoid this sort of crap (over-rotation) now. Ten, twenty years ago, not so much.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #308 on: 01 Apr 2010, 11:25 »

I suppose I can agree with you on that.  I don't have too much experience with the radio 10-20 years ago, since I was a kid/not born yet at that time. 
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #309 on: 01 Apr 2010, 13:15 »

Ah, the interwebs, where opinions can span generations and a well explained point of view can be appreciated by all...

Your mileage may vary. 
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #310 on: 01 Apr 2010, 16:03 »

Ten, twenty years ago, not so much.


Ahhh, the good old days!
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #311 on: 01 Apr 2010, 16:10 »

I'm sure you're using that ironically, but, ye gods, I hate that miserable phrase. As old as I feel sometimes, whenever I start thinking about the past in those terms, I'll know I've reached my dotage.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #312 on: 01 Apr 2010, 16:20 »

I've spent my not inconsiderable life trying to improve  things over the "not-quite-so-good old days", and in recording, for instance I'm still doing just that (a couple of my recent recordings are being used during a demo of 3-D surround recording at a symposium at IRCAM in Paris next month).
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #313 on: 01 Apr 2010, 18:01 »

Ooh!  Ooh!  Who remembers quadrophonic sound systems?  Let's put a time stamp on our foreheads...

Yeah, the good old days.  8 tracks, scratchy records, and 1/4 track reel-to-reel stereo (flip the 10" reel, get another hour!)

Not to mention those sparkly 12" laser discs replacing betamax videos...

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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #314 on: 01 Apr 2010, 19:08 »

I don't go quite that far back, but I do remember cassettes.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #315 on: 01 Apr 2010, 19:19 »

Pshaw!  They still make and sell cassettes... doesn't count 'till it's extinct! 

(I know, they started making vinyl discs again.  I think it was just so the DJ's would have soomething to scratch...)
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #316 on: 01 Apr 2010, 19:28 »

Where do you shop?

I haven't seen an album on cassette in a store in a good long while.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #317 on: 01 Apr 2010, 20:13 »

I remember 8-tracks—and, to date-stamp me, the Walkman personal cassette player was the 'must have' music device when I was in high school—we had Sanyo knock-off's by then. I knew a girl in college who owned one of the first Discman—compared to the tape players, sucker was huge. To compare, by then I had a sony Walkman that, when empty, could be collapsed to the size of a cassette case.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #318 on: 02 Apr 2010, 00:05 »

Where do you shop?

I haven't seen an album on cassette in a store in a good long while.

You can get blank cassette tapes most places - Wal*Mart, drug stores, Dollar General...  I didn't mean commercial ones.  As for vinyl, that's pretty much all limited pressing stuff sold online.  I don't buy any, though - my collection's already too big. 
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #319 on: 02 Apr 2010, 00:12 »

Sure, you can still buy blanks. I bet you can still buy blank VHS tapes, but nobody puts out content in those formats anymore.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #320 on: 02 Apr 2010, 02:27 »

To today's poll: The obvious winner should be Marigold/Angus. :P

Haley and Elan win for longest running UST, though.

Also, Marigold is really unbearably adorable right now, in spite of the hangover.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #321 on: 02 Apr 2010, 02:39 »

Go Hanners! One step closer to world domination!
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #322 on: 02 Apr 2010, 03:23 »

Until I was about 6 or 7, the only records we had in my house were 78rpm.

The first 33rpm I can remember getting was a Hanna-Barbera EP audiobook featuring Huckleberry Hound, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks.
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #323 on: 02 Apr 2010, 08:34 »

"Oh, mah darlin', OH mah DARlin', OH MAH DARLIN' CLAmenTIiIiNnNnEeEeE!"
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Re: WCT 22-26 March
« Reply #324 on: 02 Apr 2010, 13:08 »

"I hate those meeces to pieces!"
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