TBrennan

I think that when a fella can't dig Chuck Berry he's in danger of losing the spirit of rock and roll, in danger of getting too refined. But I like it simple--simple bass, simple drums, simple piano, simple guitar----you know, rock and roll. Listenin' to Fats Domino now---no lead guitar.

Nothing by Scotty Moore, James Burton, Steve Cropper or George Harrison? I think this fella has a rather narrow view of rock and roll guitar playing. Well he did include Berry, a man who helped write the basic vocabulary of the form. Two of my favorites are very short an to the point, the solos in "Sweet Hitch Hiker" by CCR and "EMI" by the Sex Pistols. The best work isn't aways by the musicians with the best chops, not in rock and roll. Ya gotta have heart.

Claude---Here's a rig I used a few years ago. FH-1 bottoms with an extra MDF layer and veneer using K-33 woofers. Altec 902s on 511B horns. Bi-amped at 500hz with a DOD crossover, Yamaha SS on woofs and Fisher SA-100 tune amp on treble. Sounded pretty good.

www.partsexpress.com Good stuff---B&C, Radian, JBL, Eminence and lots of hardware and crossover parts. A good place to start.

Dave---Well the EQ has always been understood to be part of the system, to those of us who understand things anyway. :-) Funny thing, compared to many modern speakers, including some by Klipsch, that array of 9 5" drivers looks like quite a good bit of woofer. I like to tweak the single-driver guys by asking them why they never use Bose or stand-up for Bose. They'll defend the most wretched sounding Fostexes and Lowthers but never go to bat for Bose.

Actually Bose does make stadium type speakers, big horn systems, and the Super Dome is (was?) a Bose installation. Google Bose panaray. This will confuse the anti-Bose goons.

My old Maggie MG-Is had fuses in the signal path. Poor dynamics, took 150 watts to get them going and 200 blew the fuses.

" If you ever start getting withdrawals " Thanks for the thought Pete, I'll let you know. I gotta come up soon anyway to see the kids and maybe go sit with the other retirees at the back of a union meeting. White Castle we got. ;-)

Oh Hell, that was a baseball team, they became the Astros. The football Colts were never in Texas though before being an NFL team as the Baltimore Colts around 1950 they were in some other league as the Miami Seahwaks or something.

Oh man Flannel, he did it all----ran, blocked, received, threw, kicked----he would have played defense if they'd let him. I loved the way he and Suhey worked together. A true team football player, unselfish and modest he let his deeds speak for themselves and they spoke volumes.

Yeah, when us boilermakers worked outages at Crawford Station we'd hit the local taverns for lunch. The Gin Mill was good but it's gone. We'd head over to the Home Run Inn too, I remember when it was just a tavern that sold pizzas. My Dad would drive over from our house at Madison and Austin to get pizzas there. You can tell that was a long time ago eh, when Irish lived on Madison St.

Dtel----That idiot Ditka was almost as big a jerk down by you as he was with the Bears.

Payton? What does he have to do with this? Our beloved Walter, the greatest all around football player of all time, is sadly gone.

"More than one Bobaks?" Yeah Pete, there's one out in Burr Ridge at I-55 and County Line Rd. "There is giant one less than a mile from me on Archer Ave." Yeah, I was in there once, down around Cicero or Crawford Ave right? You know the Corona tavern at 47th and Crawford? Good lookin' Polish barmaids in there as of a couple of years ago, good working man's lunch too. My favorite Polish restaurant is the Red Apple up on Milwaukee Ave. near Devon. No Polish joints here in Lexington, no Bohemian, no Jewish, no good Italian. We have Waffle Houses though and one excellent steakhouse.

"Tom, I assume you know the history of the Colts.. They started in Houston, TX, where I assume the "Colts" name makes a lot more sense than in Baltimore really..." Know, I didn't know that. Thanks. Maryland is serious horse country, not as big-time as Kentucky but there are some important horse people there.

Well I'm glad Baltimore is going to the big game, when was the last time, Unitas?

The Bears.

Argonne? Then you're close to Bobak's Polish grocery and buffet. Have a field day.

"Indiana University basketball and Irish football has kept us jumping since then." Indeed. But I think the Domer thing is much bigger than an Indiana thing. In the Chicago papers it seems that what Notre Dame does is bigger news than what U of I does but few in Chicago care what happens at other schools in Indiana like IU or Purdue. This U of K basketball thing down here in Lexington is weird, you see people who can't spell university walking around in U of K jackets, sweatshirts, hats---the whole schmear. In Illinois it seemed the people who were into U of I sports were those connected to the school---students, parents, alumni----and not the people of Illinois in general, not around Chicago anyway. But then up there we had the White Sox, Bears, Cubs, Black Hawks and Bulls. Anyway it's good to see two Midwestern teams in the game though I'm sure the chattering class tastemakers and advertisers aren't so happy about it. And I'm glad somebody here knows Tony Zale. ;-)

Best news for Hoosier sports fans since Zale beat Graziano.

Claude---Mine had K-33s when I got them so I can't compare. But they measured very nice between 50 and 500hz when pushed back in the corner.

I dunno Fini, I don't play football anymore.

Mark----A second cousin went down on the Royal Oak.

Scapa Flow?

Nothing really unusual about these, lots of people use them, Now they're in the sitting room off the bedroom and I listen to them while I lay in bed. They gotta go.