What An Unmitigated Disaster

[thebes]

Good soul that I am, I invite a few fellow Klipschers over to my house

visions of sophisticated, genteel raconteurs engaging in scintillating

technical conversations spinning through my head.

So what do I get?

A barbarian horde that's what.

Replace is not in my house two seconds and he does a header over one of

my Bogen monoblocks and bounces off my new $4000 plasma screen.

TV still works but he knocked out all the pixels where his head hit and

I've got this silhouette of a head right in the middle of tonight's

basketball game.

Then Custom Steve makes an appearance on his Harley. Drives

right through the door and right over my remaining Bogen. He then

stops and does his imitation of the guy in Animal House doing the

William Tell Overture by flicking his fingers against his throat.

And what about that guy Boomac? Boy what an apt name. Blasts his

foghorn of a voice right over the most delicate passage of Saint-Seans

"Bacchanal" .

His wife's a babe, though, so I start chatting her up. With

perfect timing The Twins take this moment to come blowing through on

their way to yet another shopping expedition. Well, daggers fly

and a cat-fight ensues.

Fortunately the ever debonair Big Al walks in the door a meerschaum

tucked in the corner of his mouth nicely complementing his smoking

jacket. The gals go ga-ga over him and he soon has them on their

way.

Big Al gives a quick listen to the Marantz 8b/7C/ Cornwall setup and

pronounces himself pleased except for one small detail in the 4500mz

range. He produces a screwdriver, pops the backs of my cornies and does

some fiddling. Well, they do sound better, but when I walk by

them now they seem to exude a certain amount of menace, and some

strange gooey viscous stuff is dripping from them. Going to have

to sleep with at least one eye open tonight.

Gary's kind enough to bring his pristine Zebra-striped Heresy's along

for a shootout with the KG 3.5's. It's a coolish day outside so

while I'm upstairs some folks decide a bonfire would be nice. Got

out in back just in time to pull the Heresy's out of the fire.

I'm sure the smoke stains will clean up nicely.

I sure hope LarryC gets over his Heavy Metal kick soon. Death

Lizard at full volume actually had entire automobiles in the parking

lot out front walking themselves down the street.

So my pristine signed Lee Morgan "Sidewinder" lp has a huge scratch in

it, there's no beer left in my house, my 1837 one-of-a-kind Viennese

chandelier has a crack in it, and the broken plumbing is flooding the

basement.

More impressions later, first I have to go calm down the neighbors. First time I've seen them with pitchforks and torches.

Oh yeah, I had a blast. Can't wait to do it again.

[lwhaples]

Sounds like a kicking good time! Too far away to enjoy. Oh Well !

Larry

[fini]

If you won't let me out of the closet, can I at least eat the leftover Cheetohs?

[Daddy Dee]

Thebes,

I'm really sorry I couldn't be there with my toga collection. It's a thousand mile trip from Little Rock, so it didn't work out.

Sounds like a wonderful time was had by all.

[garymd]

[]

Marty is truly a gracious host.

OMG! You're telling me that wasn't Pixie in the closet????[:$]

[Clarence]

the Heresy's were in the fire???????[]

[oldtimer]

Please give me advance notice of the next unmitigated disaster, because I am very good at those! No problem flying in as long as I can sleep next to the bonfire.....

[3dzapper]

Gary, you can't sell those zebra Heresys now, they are a perfect match your smokey zebra Cornwalls. Do I hear the pitter patter of little Quintets in your future?

I was thinking about you guys this afternoon hoping Thebes house would survive the onslaught. All I could envision were those Capitol One commercials.

Rick

[Deang]

You have no idea how bad I needed that laugh -- thanks Marty.

[DrWho]

Hmmm...so what other parts aren't true? You gave yourself away when you mentioned a 4500Hz glitch in the cornwalls... []

[Audio Flynn]

...another Thebes classic

there ought to be a folder of a collection

[Def Leper]

You're just lucky that I didn't show up and do my Beethoven's Fifth duet with both ends of my digestive tract at the same time........and bring my collection of Enoch Light and the Light Brigade greatest non hits in SQ quadraphonic. [&]

[leok]

Marty,

Sounds very good, also not totally unmitigated: the priorities

were right in that the Bogen was tripped over and the TV damaged. The

other way around would have been a total disaster.

Leo

[J.4knee]

Oh how I wish I could have been there. So is fini gonna come out of the closet?[] Great post. Remind me to scream at my boss in the morning for canceling my trip![:@][:'(]

[ScorpsFan]

Sounds like you all had a great time, BTW the pitchforks and torches aren't so bad, it's trying to pull the feathers out of all that tar that really sux...........

Thanks for painting a "true" picture of our fellow Klipschites.

[rplace]

Marty, thanks for being such a kind host. Send me the bill for the amp and the plasma TV. I really am sorry about that.

I wish my schedule would have allowed me to stay longer. I was hoping to meet some more of the forum members. You slackers must have been on west coast time. Gary and I left about 3:20. My gold embossed invitation said 1:00PM. []

[garymd]

I was hoping that at least 200 forum members would show, if only to hear a lot of oohs and aahs over my Heresys and maybe get a sale out of it.[]

Still waiting for pics.......(wink, wink)

BTW - What happened to The Griffinator??????

[LarryC]

I had a great time at Marty's! I have to post pics one at a time, and I'll begin with the next post and spread out comments accordingly.

Larry

[rplace]

Larry, what was track 8 on the classical CD you read us the review on then played? I gotta chase down that CD/LP. I really liked it. Any suggestions for the must have version of it?

[Mike Lindsey]

Waiting on the pics....