Topic: DAMN NOTES (Read 11468 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #31 on:** June 03, 2014, 07:26:16 AM »

Good morning, all.

A nice late one.

Coffee!

Amy · « **Reply #32 on:** June 03, 2014, 07:34:30 AM »

TOD:
The first album I ever bought with my own money was the Partridge Family's first album, which was self-titled. I remember it because I only had just enough money for the album, and not the tax, which was 15 cents. I was about seven years old. The exasperated sales clerk paid the tax for me. I could never thank her enough. I don't remember what my first book or stereo were. But I do remember the first album I ever bought without asking my mother's permission first was Queen's "Shear Heart Attack". I was about 13 years old. As you can see, my tastes changed quite a bit in those years between.

Druxy · « **Reply #33 on:** June 03, 2014, 07:48:18 AM »

TOD:

I'm 73 years old. How the hell do you expect me to remember something that happened over 60 years ago?

However, I do recall having the soundtrack recording from CALAMITY JANE wit Doris Day and Howard Keel, so that might have been it.

I also had paperback copies of both DRACULA and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; read them in bed at night with my scary closet door open.

Not sure if they were the first books, but they were probably among the first.

$:-\$

Jane · « **Reply #34 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:19:47 AM »

From DR Jennifer:

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No, maybe I should get one. The path at the lake is also for walkers. But this was just a bike path on the side of the street. If it had been a child walking on the sidewalk I would have put my hands around my brakes. But I did not think that an adult would jump in front of me without looking.

You are very naive to expect an adult to have more sense

Jane · « **Reply #35 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:22:32 AM »

From DR Jennifer:

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I definitely would have joined in. But I wasn't sure if he was a close friend of yours and didn't want to upset you.

I met him on the West Los Angeles group and he is one of the few people I am sorry I accepted as a friend. He has his good points or I would drop or hide him but I don't want to hurt his feelings. Keith thinks I should hide him, I'll see.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #36 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:25:09 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 03, 2014, 03:23:16 AM

I always hoped that Dino would accompany my act. Here's my outfit for the opening number:

Dignity. Always dignity.

No root veggies for me, please.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #37 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:26:38 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 03, 2014, 07:15:09 AM

Quote from: Kerry on June 03, 2014, 05:27:29 AM
I'm just not seeing you with the spatula.

I was wondering if the spatula was too over-the-top.

Yes, it's the "spatula" that's over the top.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #38 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:30:20 AM »

What with BK signing his "half" of the 100 pieces of sheet music and Richard Sherman signing his "half" later, I'm wondering...

Jrand74 · « **Reply #39 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:48:26 AM »

HA! Tonight we are having newspaper photos taken....and then it's family night so that they can take pictures and oooo and ahhh over their family members and talk and walk around during the other parts of the show.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #40 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:51:35 AM »

First LP:

I bought it at the local grocery store for 49 cents.....money earned by baby sitting.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #41 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:01:50 AM »

Phonograph: I got a nice single disc player for my 12th Birthday that lasted a long time. But when I went to work at the local Ben Franklin Store, I save my $$ a bought one sort of like this. The player dropped down and the speakers were fixed on either side. Mine was black and red and came with a brass stand that held LP's beneath the record player. Spent about $49.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #42 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:03:09 AM »

First book that wasn't a comic book.....probably the movie tie in version of The Time Machine.

Ginny · « **Reply #43 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:12:08 AM »

TOD - my first stereo was similar to DR JRand's, but the speakers detached. I bought it around 1967 with babysitting money and it served me well throughout college and grad school. After I got on my feet in my first professional job, I bought a Sony outfit, also with detachable speakers that I'm still using with a new combo phonograph/CD/cassette/radio that Richard gave me several years ago for Christmas.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #44 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:14:29 AM »

TOD:

As much as I fondly recall certain early LPs and books, etc., I don't believe I can say which ones would have been the first that I specifically bought with my own money. I can bring to mind a few that I know I bought, but they are probably nowhere near having been the first ones.

I do, however, know the first piece of music I ever bought, though probably not with my own money. The big deal was that it was also the first time I took the bus by myself, all the way down Main St. from the Bexley area to the then-wonderful downtown Columbus, Ohio. I was nine or ten, had discovered Gershwin, and was thrilled with the Concerto in F (Eugene List/Howard Hanson recording on Mercury, still a favorite) which I longed to play around with at the piano. My mom called one of the big music stores (Summers & Son), who either ordered or had a copy of the piano solo arrangement, and off I went one afternoon. (Everyone made a big deal then of how this little kid came in all by himself for the Concerto in F.) A few years later I graduated to the "real thing", the two-piano score, and eventually the study-size orchestra score. Sadly, while I think I still have that original solo piano version, I somehow lost those latter two fire engine red beauties along the way. I'm thinking my parents probably paid for music I needed for piano lessons, but I remember when I discovered Broadway vocal scores and started ordering and paying for those myself.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #45 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:21:44 AM »

TOD, continued:

I had that type of record player, too, but it was given to me while in high school. Mine had the detachable speakers. Took it to college, where I was soon introduced to the GOOD STUFF by a dorm-mate who was certainly an early audiophile, and I bought (with money that was supposed to be used for other things!) my first turntable (a Dual 1009 -- I'd wanted the 1019 but couldn't spend that much)*, a secondhand Lafayette tube amplifier, and at first I used the speakers from the old record player. Later I bought my first good ones, a pair of AR-4x, then traded those in (you could do that at this stereo store in Cleveland) for a pair of KLHs.

*(Many years and a few turntables later, I satisfied that first craving when I found one, in beautiful condition, at a community tag sale. Still have it.)

singdaw · « **Reply #46 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:27:08 AM »

I think the first record I purchased with my own money was the 45rpm single of "Top of the World" by the Carpenters. The first LP album was probably their "The Singles" compilation.
Have no recollection on book or record player, though.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #47 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:33:19 AM »

TOD, Part the Third:

At some point I discovered the little 3-inch-reel portable tape recorders, and nothing would do but that I should have one of my own. My parents made me pay for that myself, and I finally scraped together the ten or twelve dollars for it. We went up to Jefferson's (which I recall was one of the nicer new-fangled mass merchandise stores in Fort Lauderdale), where I was shocked and dismayed when they told me these little slow-speed battery operated things couldn't really be used for recording music. I think I let it go then, but went ahead and bought one later. Finally, my parents took pity on me and, for my birthday, bought me a much nicer 5-inch-reel model that plugged in and ran at a decent speed. Nothing remains of these, but I think most of what I recorded was stuff off TV, one memorable thing being the Groucho Marx MIKADO which introduced me to Gilbert and Sullivan, which then lead me to the D'oyly Carte stereo albums on London Records, a couple of which might have been gifts but I bought others for myself.

MBarnum · « **Reply #48 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:37:06 AM »

TOD:

For most of my childhood, the LPs and singles that I listened to belonged to my parents or were given to me as gifts. It wasn't until I was probably a senior in high school, or right after graduating, that I got around to buying my own records...and I think that this was my first...

Jrand74 · « **Reply #49 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:54:29 AM »

I am certainly enjoying the TOD.

Detachable speakers seemed to be an annoyance to me....which I why I bought the drop-down fixed speaker model. I don't remember the brand, but it probably wasn't one that is well known.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #50 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:55:08 AM »

The first LP I bought after I purchased THAT machine was the soundtrack album from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #51 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:55:54 AM »

And then - on sale - a copy of Patty Duke Sings Songs From Valley of the Dolls....it was WAY on sale....I think in the 2/$1 bin.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #52 on:** June 03, 2014, 09:58:42 AM »

In other news, I just turned down a piano/celeste gig for a community production of PETER PAN at the incredibly lovely 1933 Warner Theatre in Torrington, CT. I do enjoy doing those things and the theater is to die for, but I can't sacrifice a few weeks of summer for that.

When I asked which version, the MD said it's the original but that it had been cleaned up and updated (?) because MTI is taking it over as of August, and that this production will be one of the last rentals through Samuel French.

DR Elmore -- if I recall correctly, this was a McGlinn clean-up but not an especially great one?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:03:18 AM »

When I played it several years ago (as "synth string support", which, lemme tell you, is worse than being disguised as a second trombone) at that same theater, I made myself a photocopy of the old handwritten P/C score, and boy did that (and the parts) ever need a clean-up. Fun to have, though, with the notations Mary does this, Mary does that, etc.

Jane · « **Reply #54 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:04:28 AM »

That guy that had the nerve to lecture me about eating the treats from Voodoo Doughnut, even if he is right, posted to his FB friends to go to a restaurant in Vegas and have the Bone in Rib Eye with the egg on top.

Keith & I are very tempted to hijack his post and rant about the fat content of such a meal and that he is recommending they eat a poor dead animal.

Jennifer · « **Reply #55 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:26:47 AM »

Quote from: Jane on June 03, 2014, 08:22:32 AM

From DR Jennifer:
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I definitely would have joined in. But I wasn't sure if he was a close friend of yours and didn't want to upset you.

I met him on the West Los Angeles group and he is one of the few people I am sorry I accepted as a friend. He has his good points or I would drop or hide him but I don't want to hurt his feelings. Keith thinks I should hide him, I'll see.

If you hide him will others still see his posts? I think it's sort of weird to hide his posts on your own page. If you hide his posts on his page that is fine. Maybe just private message him and ask if he could not post controversial things on your page since it upsets your friends.

Jennifer · « **Reply #56 on:** June 03, 2014, 10:28:38 AM »

Quote from: Jane on June 03, 2014, 10:04:28 AM

That guy that had the nerve to lecture me about eating the treats from Voodoo Doughnut, even if he is right, posted to his FB friends to go to a restaurant in Vegas and have the Bone in Rib Eye with the egg on top.

Keith & I are very tempted to hijack his post and rant about the fat content of such a meal and that he is recommending they eat a poor dead animal.

Don't do it.

That is funny that he posted that though.

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** June 03, 2014, 11:19:38 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - since ten-thirty and still not enough sleep, because I didn't fall asleep until four.

bk · « **Reply #58 on:** June 03, 2014, 11:20:09 AM »

Have done some fixes to the packaging and that's going into the studio for approval right about now.

bk · « **Reply #59 on:** June 03, 2014, 11:21:15 AM »

A lovely review for the Kritzerland show from our own Rob Stevens, which you can find by clicking on Now Playing right here on our home page.

And another from Les Spindle, which you can find right here: http://www.edgeonthenet.com/entertainment//reviews//159168

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