[TheForge] Re: Have Done this in a While

Mike Spencer mspencer at tallships.ca
Sun Jun 12 22:45:54 EDT 2005


Music?  Um, that's would be that sound you hear when the blower,
lineshaft, welder, grinders, exhaust fan, cut-off saw and compressor
are all off at the same time? :-)

When I got a shop with electricity, I set up my mid 60s reel to reel
tape deck and played The Band, Theolonius Monk and Vivaldi.  Shop
atmosphere plus humidity ate the electronics within a year.

Now I have a cheap radio tuned to CBC on weekdays: mostly classical,
no commercials.  Saturday afternoon on CBC is a choice of Fatuous Old
Farts (Saturday Afternoon at the Opera) and Impossibly Hip
20-Somethings (Definitely Not The Opera).  Sunday is mostly nattering.
So weekends I listen to the sounds of nature.

Hey, I thought so-called "heavy metal" or "industrial" were supposed
to be inspired by the sounds of machinery and metal objects bashing
together, heard through Blade Runner phones.  Since when does a
blacksmith need a recording to hear that?  :-)


- Mike

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