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The Forte is the perfect speaker for our livingroom. Easy placement and great sound with no real weak points. Colin: Did you see this ebay sale in your market tracking ($1,000)? It's the most I've seen Fortes go for. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=61378&item=5754870295&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Mind bending? Fripp & Eno - "Swastika Girls" from the No Pu$$yfooting album

---------------- On 3/25/2005 4:26:59 PM jacksonbart wrote: Hubba Hubba Why would someone ruin a perfectly nice picture by putting a cable in the way? ---------------- I think the cable is symbolic.

---------------- On 3/25/2005 4:26:13 PM 3dzapper wrote: Sputnik, I envy you. Any song by Buddy Holly can be a tear jerker. Such a loss of talent. Even back then the playing of the Crickets was groundbreaking and toetappingly good. Rick ---------------- Yeah, we were sure lucky to catch that concert. Nanci Griffith was so cool - she just stepped back after a while and let the Crickets steal the show. It was such a privilege to see them in a small but ornate auditorium built in the heyday of Butte mining and to think of the evolution of music that they were woven into from the time that they came on the scene in the fifties to now. It was "emotionally moving music."

---------------- On 3/25/2005 12:14:57 PM DeanG wrote: Emotionally involving music? Pretty much any of the theme songs from old TV shows. ---------------- Went to a Nanci Griffith concert over in Butte a few years ago when she was touring with the Crickets. It seemed like an odd combination and I didn't know much about the Crickets other than Buddy Holly. The connection was that Nanci Griffith grew up in Lubbock and listened to the Crickets as a girl and now was able to take them on tour. The Crickets were amazing and the show stopper was Nanci Griffith singing the theme from the Mary Tyler Moore Show with Sonny Curtis, of the Crickets, who originally wrote and recorded the song for the TV show. It sounds corny but people were wiping away tears.

---------------- On 3/25/2005 10:55:49 AM Tom Adams wrote: When I did my motorcycle trip to Canada last year, I'd fill up the FJR's tank (about 7 gallons) and would be shocked at the price. It just seems wrong for a fill-up on a motorcycle to be 12 or 13 dollars (Canadian). Tom ---------------- Is the FJR as nice as it they say it is in the magazines ? How does it do in foul weather rough roads etc? I'm thinking of getting one.

---------------- On 3/24/2005 11:05:56 AM Istari wrote: Its "Somewhere over the Rainbox/What a Wonderful World" from his "Facing Future" album. It's played with a Uke. ---------------- Yep. That's the one I meant.

Israel (IZ) Kamakawiw'ole - "Over the Rainbow" Bob Seger - "Roll Me Away" Mary McCaslin - "Ghost Riders in the Sky" Mother Maybell Carter - "May the Circle be Unbroken" Movie theme music from "The Mission" and "Dr Zhivago" Dave Brubeck - "Take Five" Bob Marley - "One Love" And anyone playing the "Too Fat Polka" is always a rouser!

---------------- On 3/23/2005 6:43:10 PM fastlane wrote: Cat Steven's "Cats in the Cradle" gets me even though my dad was not too busy for me, he was not there (divorced and moved away). It also reminds me to find more time for my own son. ---------------- Wasn't that Harry Chapin? Did Cat Stevens ever record that? Anyway, a good Cat Stevens tear jerker is "Trouble" especially in the context of the scene from "Harold and Maude" where it was played.

Don't get me wrong - I really like Idaho it's a beautiful state and I don't want to start a flame war . In Montana, we just like to poke fun at Idaho. For example, did you know that the dome of the Idaho state capitol building is made from Montana granite? Sorry, I just can't help myself - I'll shut up now

Here is another fun fact about Idaho. The name "Idaho" was made up by a politician as part of a hoax to name what was eventually Colorado. The following is from Netstate.com. "Idaho was first presented to Congress, by mining lobbyist George M. Willing, as a name for a new territory around Pike's Peak. He told Congress that Idaho was a Shoshone Indian word that meant "Gem of the Mountains." Indian names were popular at the time and by the end of 1860, Congress was set to name the Pike's Peak region Idaho. Just as Congress was about to bestow this name, it came to their attention the Idaho was not an Indian name, but a name made up by Mr. Willing. In reaction, Congress designated the territory Colorado instead of Idaho. In the meantime, the word Idaho had come into common usage. One of the mining towns in Colorado Territory had been named Idaho Springs. A Colorado steamboat launched on June 9, 1860, for service between the Cascades and The Dalles, was named "Idaho." Gold was found in Nez Perce country, and these discoveries became known as the "Idaho Mines," perhaps after the steamboat used in the gold rush up the Columbia River. Though Idaho had been discarded as a name for the new territory, the name became well known from Washington D.C. to the Pacific northwest. In 1863, Congress created a new territory for the Idaho Mines and Idaho seemed like a natural."

Close enough. "Famous Potatoes". It used to (and I think still does) adorn the Idaho license plate. The plate used to sport an image of a huge potato. It's sort of the unofficial state motto of Idaho. An attorney friend of mine in Idaho had a calligrapher print the Latin in gothic script on her law certificate - it blended right in with all of the other Latin stuff. I just about split a gut when I finnally noticed it. EDIT: Ya beat me Larry

Anyone over forty probably remembers listening to the Singing Nun album, Soeur Sourire. The real one in French (not the insipid English version from the Debbie Reynolds movie). It was a number 1 hit around the world in the early sixties. Sold over 1.5 million copies. I remember listening to it as a kid on the huge Magnavox console in the livingroom and thinking that I might learn French just by listening. It still sounds so beautiful, lyrical, and very simple with just a voice, guitar, and occasionally clapping hands. I have an old abum and recently picked up the cd. Her music revealed a beautiful spirit. I've read that she had a difficult childhood and I didn't know until recently that her life ended tragically. I understand that there is a biography that has just been or will be released about her. Here is some information about her from WEHT.net. The Belgian Dominican Nun known as Sister Luc-Gabrielle became an international star in 1964 with her #1 hit record Dominique However, Sister Luc-Gabrielle-now billed as Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile) felt uncomfortable with her new-found celebrity and retreated from performing in 1965. 2 years later she left the convent to pursue a new life as a singer and artist (her watercolor-paintings adorned her album covers and were displayed annually by the Dominican order) Together with her friend Annie Pescher(rumored to be her lover) Jeanne Deckers embarked on a celebrity trail which openly criticized the church, supported birth-control and ultimately led to her demise into obscurity. In the 1980s Jeanne and Annie purchased and operated a school for special-needs children. But it was ultimately ruined by financial troubles. She supposedly owed over $47,000 in back taxes from her "singing Nun" days even though she had donated the profits to her convent. Destitute and depressed Jeanne and Annie committed suicide together in 1985.

---------------- On 3/21/2005 6:06:45 PM SCOOTERDOG wrote: .................But that's ok as we love Idaho and I now have an opportunity that I didn't think existed here so wooo whooo......... ---------------- Idaho is nice, I lived in Boise many years ago. Do you know what tuberosum celebratus means?

Thanks Larry. That explains alot. I've used the terms without really knowing what was going on. The old vinyl technology is so elegant compared to just reading a stream of ones and zeros.

---------------- On 3/20/2005 9:05:38 PM colterphoto1 wrote: Helicopter thing was joking, but I do have a neigbor who's a wrench head and has one in his garage. Real kook that one! M ---------------- I had a friend back in college whose landlady evicted him because she thought he was flying a helicopter around inside the house. True story.

An old Firesign Theatre album entitled "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers." It contains the "Adventures of Peorgie and Mudhead." There is a warning on the back of the album cover that I never noticed before - "You might not want to play this record on the radio because of the FCC." This is so stupid .

Thanks Gil. Another question if you don't mind. How is the up & down and side to side motion translated into an analog signal? There does not seem to be any electrical component associated with the stylus. Is it simply a mechanical sensor? Does the cartridge and/or tonearm function as a tranducer as well as sort out the channels and phasing? I've used pressure tranducers - is it something like that? Thinking about this really gives some idea as to how smart and clever these old guys really were. I grew up just pushing buttons and waiting for the music to come out - it was magic. Thanks again.

I wonder if there was ever any experimentation with stereophonic 78s. ADDED: I thought this was an interesting factoid about 78s. http://stereos.about.com/cs/glossaryandtools/g/78rpm_record.htm

Excellent link. Thanks Bob.

Ok, this is something I've wondered about since I was a kid but have been too lazy to ever research. Just some quick back of the envelope calculations indicate that the tangential velocity of an LP record passing under a stylus varies from around 100 feet per minute at the outer grooves to around 45 feet per minute at the inside grooves. This means that one second of music will occupy about 20 inches of groove length in the outermost grooves and only about 9 inches along the innermost grooves. Does this mean that recording studios might want to place more complex music that may require higher modulation in the outer tracks and save the inside tracks for less complex music? I've never noticed any such correlation so my guess is that it does not make that much of a practical difference. But, as anal as the audiphile world is, it seems like someone would have made big deal about this at some point in the last hundred years. It's also interesting to note that the tangential velocity of the outer groove of a 78 rpm record is about 160 feet per minute or 32 inches per second. So 78s should have the highest fidelity, right? Maybe there is some trade off in frictional forces or groove wear at some point. Also, is there something magical about 33.33 rpm or is it just a convenient standard to fit a half an hour of music on one side of a record? Does anyone know how and why these standards came about?

I saw an exotic dancer in Prague do an amazing performance to the Underture (side two) from Tommy. I'd love to see what the twins could do with it.

---------------- On 3/18/2005 8:15:46 PM colterphoto1 wrote: so buy it, take it home, and make it better. Don't know whats going on there, one ball has been dissected- some kind of sicko, we've got to rescue that Khorn, Men! Michael- up to my elbows in Cornwalls or I'd help out here... ---------------- I'd chip in $20 toward the puchase for anyone that could save poor little "Stumpy". The seller is probably ok - he went to the effort to pull it out of the dumpster. It's just that those damn bowling balls give me the willies.

Maybe this just gets to me because there are so many bowling balls in there. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=61378&item=5761542802&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

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