Something old, now something new for me!

[colterphoto1]

The 'passing of the Klipsch speakers' shot (aka 'the money shot)

[IndyKlipschFan]

I was so embarassed, Roger sang along to Hanna Montana for the first hour or so....

I did know who Hanna was.... LOL If you have kids, you do too!

And no I did not sing to her for 1 hour.. But did skip a few songs through to educate Michael...LOL

I wonder if older people felt this way about Pat Benetar too.

Hannah Montana crowned new queen of ‘tween’

Miley Ray Cyrus set to become a billionaire by the time she hits adulthood

Matt Sayles / AP file Miley Ray Cyrus arrives at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles last November.

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Who
needs men to drive the box office when you’ve got Miley Ray Cyrus
(better known to legions of pint-size fans as Hannah Montana), a
multimedia starlet who is on track to be a billionaire by the time she
hits 18.

The day
after Super Bowl XLII, Cyrus — or Hannah Montana, the character she
plays on the hit Disney Channel TV show — stole headlines away from one
of the most memorable upsets in the history of the National Football
League. Her film,
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, became
the No. 1 movie at the box office, earning $31.1 million in three days.

Hannah
Montana was shown only at 683 specially-equipped Digital 3-D theatres
and moviegoers paid on average $15 per ticket (the national average is
closer to $7), but it still set a slew of records: highest box-office
total for Super Bowl weekend; highest-grossing opening for a Digital
3-D movie; and highest per-screen average ever — $42,000 per screen
trounced the record of $35,000 set by Spider-Man 3 last year.
Originally limited to a one-week engagement, the film has now been
extended indefinitely. (For more on her movie's effect on U2 3D, read
"Hannah Montana Vs. U2.")

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Cyrus,
daughter of ’90s country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus, who co-stars as her
on-screen father, wasn’t done: That same Monday, the movie raked in
another $3.3 million. And Tuesday, it earned another $2.8 million,
leaving Hollywood insiders scratching their heads. “It was unexpected,”
said Jeff Bock, a box-office analyst for Los Angeles-based Exhibitor
Relations, “especially for a film targeting young females, which the
studios usually don’t target.”

Michael
Wood, vice president of TRU, a market-research firm based in
Northbrook, Illinois, specializing in tween and youth audiences, says
he sees Cyrus on her way to billion-dollar status. “At this rate, she’s
certainly positioned to,” Wood says. “I don’t see this ending anytime
soon. This is not a fluke.”

Films
are just one aspect of the cultural and corporate phenomena that is
Hannah Montana. Her talents and earning potential span the spectrum of
the entertainment industry in a way that few tween or teen stars —
including her fellow minimoguls, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, whose
Dualstar Entertainment is a billion-dollar-a-year merchandise business
— ever have.

“She’s
moved into the space that the Olsen twins used to own,” Wood says. “She
has almost more potential. The Olsen twins’ empire was built slowly
over many years. But Hannah Montana has risen so quickly she’s exploded
into every genre.”

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Since
her eponymous show debuted in 2006 as the No. 1 cable show for kids age
6-14, she’s had two chart-topping CDs, Hannah Montana and Hannah
Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus (more than 8 million copies sold
worldwide); four bestselling DVDs (more than 2.5 million copies sold);
a series of young adult novels (3.7 million copies and counting); video games
(1.7 million sold); and a sold-out national tour that has been expanded
to 70 dates (and has already generated more than $24 million).

She
landed on Billboard’s list of the 20 top-earning artists of 2007 in the
No. 11 spot with $64 million from her CD sales and tour receipts, which
was good enough to leapfrog over veteran road acts like Faith Hill and
Bon Jovi. Perhaps the Olsen twins comparison is a bit unfair — to the
Olsens. “This is more like Beatlemania,” says Wood.

Disney
has launched a line of Hannah Montana-inspired merchandise — 140 items,
including clothes, watches, bedding, luggage, shoes, makeup, spa kits,
and toys. These products sell in mass-market retailers like Macy’s,
Kmart, and Target, and on January 29 Wal-Mart announced that it would
be creating specialized Hannah Montana boutiques within many of its 750
U.S. stores, insuring that the global retail powerhouse would become
Hannah Montana central.

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Even
in the annals of Disney’s vaunted history of childhood icons, there’s
never been anyone quite like Hannah Montana. “Miley is the first star
to have multiple deals across several aspects of the company, including
TV,
film, music, and consumer products,” said Patti McTeague, a
spokesperson for the Disney Channel. While she notes that the company
has had recent success with tween stars like Hilary Duff and Raven
Simone, both of whom continue to be revenue-generating celebrities for
the company, “as a franchise, it’s a unique association we have with
Miley."

Disney
praised the Hannah Montana properties in its upbeat first-quarter
earnings report for fiscal 2008, which found revenues for the company
rising by 9 percent compared with the previous year. The concert tour,
merchandise, and video games all got positive mentions in Disney’s
earnings statement.

Unlike
stars who had a hard time translating teen fame into adult stardom,
Cyrus (who turns 18 in 2010) is already laying the foundation for the
future. On her TV show, she plays Miley Stewart, a teenager with a
secret identity: international pop star Hannah Montana. Only her family
— and viewers — are in on the secret. On her sold-out tour, she sings
the first half of each concert “in character” as Hannah Montana, then
the second segment as herself, Miley Ray Cyrus, teenage
singer-songwriter. Besides being a neat marketing trick worthy of a
metafiction book, Cyrus is making sure she’s not limited to the tween
persona that she will, inevitably, outgrow.

It’s
a deft move on her — or her management team’s — part, says Wood. “Her
audience loves Miley and they love her character Hannah,” he says. “It
gives her a lot more options in terms of how she can develop her
character and herself. It’s the best of both worlds.”

[IndyKlipschFan]

I know twisted thinks he knows what he has..... But at the same time, I have no idea if he really does? ........ really.

A home theater with 7 of these. I mean seriously.... WOW..and OUCH!

Your gonna have to build a BIG room for these Twisted Roger.

Michael, as always, your a great road buddie!

[HudsonValleyNoah]

only 10 months ago - wow, how the world has changed...

[HudsonValleyNoah]

I resurrected this thread because of the fine photography by Colter and the views of the cool La Scala split tops (with metal trim) that Roger got from me.

I missed those LSI tops from the moment I shipped them to Roger.

Now, less than a year later, I found another pair!

I am going to do everything that I can do to keep them

Even if I have to sell my pair of 1967 Vertical Cornwalls!

Umm, I think.

I can't keep both pair...

OK, which pair should I sell?

My new / old LSI split tops?

[HudsonValleyNoah]

Or my old OLD Cornwall Verticals?

[dtel]

Sell the Cornwalls !

[HudsonValleyNoah]

that's what I'm thinking.

I think.

those split tops sure are cool.

[dtel]

Michael had bought a set of split LaScalas with metal trim about 2 hours from here with the bottoms to match and I went and picked them up for him. I have no idea how much he paid for them even now.

It was a big mistake on my part, he told me he would pick them up in a few months but feel free to use them. []

At the time all I had was Forte's which I still love. But when I put the split industrial LaScalas in my living room I was ruined, I fell in love with them and was thinking about telling Michael if he changed his mind and did not want to bother trying to get them back to Indy I would buy them from him, but I never told him and he made arraignments to get them to his home.

From then on I was trying to find some at a reasonable price and distance for the workshop and yard and never did find any. For a while they were not very easy to find at all, and you would be lucky to beat Michael and Indy to them if you did find them, they drove from Indy to I think Miami and picked up a van load of them. [].

I ended up making a top like that without the metal trim but same drivers/horns and putting each of them on top of a single MWM cabinet with the same crossover AA. It's like a split LaScala with a big BUTT, and it sounds really good.

Not that those are average Cornwalls by far, they are very cool and I would think a little rare with those grills and also being verticals, but to me there's just something special about split industrial LaScalas ?

[Cal Blacksmith]

Those Cornwalls sure would look good in my HT as mains! I just am not up to a week long road trip []

[colterphoto1]

N- get the bottoms and keep em all

D- sorry about that, once you get hooked on horns, well you know how it goes

R- can't wait for good weather again, some good times wheeling the beasts out for breathing room

M

[twistedcrankcammer]

Bumpity-Bump for Indy