[Vintage-Audio] Passing Gas Among Friends

[Duane Fischer]

The lack of traffic on this list is starting to concern me.  Maybe we need
to start a call one person every other day to see if they still have a
pulse support group! Does the desire to preserve, reproduce and get
pleasure from older music, some truly vintage and other just from the
period of time where some of our children's generation smoked the stuff we
cut with lawnmowers, now have a neuron vapor lock, and have a anything
older than ten years "empty" reading on the memory meter! 	
	
Are any of you still playing 33 1/3 rpm vinyl albums on a turntable? Does
anyone have a reel to reel tape deck they play home or commercially
recorded musical tapes on? Maybe some still spin 45 rpm singles on a
self-contained record player using a record changer? Heck some of you might
still have eight track tape unitsin your homes or vehicles?	
	
So why don't any of you pour some stimulants down the intake manifold and
tell us what you do with that vintage audio gear besides use a dust depth
micrometer to take annual accumulative depth readings? Do you like spin
platters and remember when or just buy equipment at yard sales and fill up
open areas in your home so you won't have to vacuum or dust there?	
	
I just rediscovered an original organ album by former Detroit Tigers
pitcher Denny McClaine. Remember him? He won what, 31 games, in 1968?
Played at a nightclub here in Flint, cut an album somewhere, got a
retirement job of being an organized crime bill collector, spent some time
in prison and ... Sad story.	
	
When I asked a noted record/music writer about the value of the original
Denny McClaine album, he said I would likely have to pay someone to take
it! Hmmm.   	
	
Now my Herb Alpert TJB "Whipped Cream And Other Delights" original album,
another story! Any of you old farts remember that one from the sixties?
Gave 'Dream Whip' a whole new market!	
	
In case I am wasting my time writing to the living dead, I will stop and
see if I hear any heavy breathing. Maybe breathing at all!	
	
Duane Fischer, W8DBF