ABC-TV had Batman kick off 1966 with a BAM! and a POW! NBC-TV had the knock-out one-two punch in September, with Star Trek and Hey, Hey, The Monkees!
The Monkees TV series is now available for viewing on the best free streaming video service, Tubi. The premiere episode, ‘Royal Flush’, features family friend Vince Beck as Sigmund.
For the second time, I have enjoyed seeing and hearing the fantastic ‘Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon – Official Planetarium Show’ at this venue.
I wasn’t able to confirm the model(s) of the two video projectors, but they’re the JVC DLA-NZ9 and/or the newer NZ900 model. Special lenses are used to fill the image across the huge dome ceiling.
The audio quality was just as good as the image, and easily the best I have ever heard playing The Dark Side of the Moon. An album that was released — ulp! — just as I was about to graduate from high schoool.
The sound was effortlessly loud and completely free of harshness in the way that professional grade systems can be. The bass was massively powerful and deep, with no breakup whatsoever. Such an audio/video treat!
In the LINKS section of this site and you will find Dan Piraro’s Bizarro. It’s a comic strip with a sideways and inside-out view of the universe we are all required to inhabit.
Go to Bizarro and you will find Wayno, Dan’s partner in cartooning craziness. Wayno handles Bizarro every day except Sundays. Dan reserves that cartoon for himself.
https://comicskingdom.com/creator/wayno
Wayno is another favorite cartoonist of mine who I was very pleased to meet this weekend. I caught up with him during Saturday’s events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library.
Wayno has picked up on something that’s amused me for a long time — the effect on the Beatles from adding an “s” to their name.
Every so often, BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the Seventies, now hosted by Shaun Keaveny, surprises me with a song that was a big hit in the UK, but wasn’t in America. Here’s an example.
In 1977, the Alessi Brothers had a #8 hit in England with ‘Oh Lori’. I was working as an AM radio DJ that year, and ‘Oh Lori’ is a song that would have been a perfect fit for the station’s Adult Contemporary format. Nonetheless, it wasn’t on our playlist.
I’ll correct that oversight right now. If the Beach Boys did Jazz, it would sound like this.
After much speculation for a long time, a deluxe reissue of the Beatles album Rubber Soul is on the way. It must be noted that Capitol’s US version of the album, that was not approved by the Beatles, had far greater influence than Parlophone’s UK version.
