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Title: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: ironbut on November 30, 2011, 05:50:56 PM

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Title: Re: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: Doc B. on December 01, 2011, 05:09:46 AM

So yesterday Shawn and I start to plow through a collection of a couple hundred prerecorded tapes. Most are classical, with a few odds and ends thrown in. As we get into it we find that about half of them are damaged, lots of scalloped edges that won't track, etc. One is an acetate tape that have lost several minutes of music and is full of splices that are sticking together. It's a military band thing, that I found quite bright and harsh. We needed an extra take up reel and figured no one would care if this goofy brittle marching band thing was sacrificed, so I spent ten minutes spooling the tape off the reel into a trash can. 

At around 2 p.m. one of our customers who is a big tape collector came by. He spied the box in the trash - "ooooh, that is a really cool album!"

Title: Re: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: howardnair on December 01, 2011, 01:36:43 PM

as they say "one mans trash is another mans treasure"  but who is they??

Title: Re: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: ironbut on December 01, 2011, 02:09:48 PM

There's certainly a few things that I get that "foam in the corners of my mouth" obsessed about and music and sound are just two of 'em!
I can relate to the guy in the picture 'cause Him is Me!
IMHO, life is too short not to get passionate about as many things as your heart can stand.

Title: Re: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: electrovice on December 01, 2011, 03:26:50 PM

I think the picture is a self portrait of Robert Crumb. He was an avid collector of  "old timey" vintage music much of it on 78. Crumb put out a few albums in the seventies under his group name "Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders" My understanding that some of the albums were actually released as 78s. I have a few of his albums but in LP format.

John

Title: Re: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: Chris on December 01, 2011, 06:00:29 PM

That is one fantastic name.. Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders! haha love it...

Title: Re: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: Doc B. on December 02, 2011, 06:19:39 AM

Yeah, Crumb! Love his stuff. I thought about approaching him to do our Tape Project logo when we started up. He has a fabulous set of baseball style cards of the great blues musicians.

Title: Re: OT-remind you of someone?
Post by: Jim R. on December 03, 2011, 04:38:53 AM

IMHO, life is too short not to get passionate about as many things as your heart
can stand.

Well said, Steve!

-- Jim