Here’s another musical crossover involving the Jefferson Airplane. It was written by David Crosby, who is considered by some who have known him, to be a consummate jerk.
Category: Music
Sailing and Flying With Hippies
(The Fat Angel was Mama Cass)
Buzz Off!
Turn volume down before playing. Unpleasant test tone.
This is the text I posted on YouTube to accompany the video:
Audiorpheus (https://www.youtube.com/c/Audiorpheus…) posted a lot of interesting and fun videos related to affordable record playing. He used the Hi-Fi News Test LP to perform some tracking tests, with the Nagaoka MP-110 coming out on top.
For this short video I used my copy of the Hi-Fi News test disc to compare a Grado Green cartridge with an Audio-Technica AT92E. I bought the Grado for $100 a couple of years ago, and the Audio-Technica was purchased new in 2013 for only $20 (the price was increased later to $30). The cartridges are mounted and aligned in identical head shells, and installed on a vintage Pioneer PL-112D turntable.
The Grado Green buzzes just as badly as the Grado Black did for Audiorpheus. The AT92E, however, performs just as well on the difficult inner-groove tracking test as the Nagaoka did for Audiorpheus.
The replacement for the AT92E is the AT85EP, for $40. If the AT85EP performs as well as the older model, it’s today’s #1 tracking bargain, costing a fraction the price of a Nagaoka MP-110.
The Pruetape Letters
A couple more tidbits from my first recorded conversation with Prue.
In this clip Prue explains why her father decided the family should stay in England after the war, rather than return to Belgium.
Prue had this funny comment about being a ballet student and seeing Moira Shearer.
The Man Ain’t Got No Culture
I’m going to come out about something, so I can’t back out of seeing it through to completion. Not that I would want to anyway.
Thanks to WhatsApp, I’m working with Prue on her memoir. Some of the cultural references she makes are challenging. She mentioned the name Diaghilev. When I pleaded ignorance, she added the name Nijinsky, and thanks to that I found this documentary.
https://youtu.be/lmsR8eR2-MI
The video is narrated by Tilda Swinton, who played Dr. Strange’s teacher the Ancient One. Hah! So my Marvel Comics background isn’t completely irrelevant.
One of Prue’s earliest memories is of a German V1 rocket overhead in London. They were called Buzz Bombs or, as she remembers them being called, Doodlebugs.
Petula Hangover
There’s an Ed Sullivan channel on YouTube, and if Ed were alive to see it he wouldn’t recognize it as a TV channel by his understanding. Most of the material has been added over the past year, presumably after a deal for advertising money was made. There’s now a massive collection available for viewing, restored to the best possible quality.
Petula Clark is very well represented, although there is at least one Sullivan appearance I know of that’s missing. I stayed up much too late a couple of nights ago, indulging my Petula crush. My father bought our 23″ RCA color console in August, 1967, making this appearance the first time I saw Petula on TV in color.
That performance is typical of Petula’s American TV appearances. A couple of months earlier she was taped, apparently in Quebec, being much more herself, delightfully bouncy and flirtatious. This was typical of her style when performing in France, where they called her Sexy Pet before she joined the British Invasion of America.
P.S. I found the one I thought was missing. It was posted back in March. That dress must have been uncomfortable and/or hot, because the moment the song is done she starts taking it off. Maybe it’s a costume change to another number, but if so I don’t know it.