Plug in and put on your headphones, click or tap “Playlist,” scroll down to The Guitar Ramblers and get started surfin’ and crusin’!
Even lossy compressed audio can’t obscure the seductive sound of Bob’s Sumiko Blue Point No. 2 phono cartridge. I’ll never get Jimi Hendrix’s knock against Surf music in “Third Stone From the Sun.”
Six years ago, Richard Thompson, creator of the Cul de Sac comic strip, died after some years of coping with Parkinson’s Disease. The previous year, Wisconsin political cartoonist Stuart Carlson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Carlson passed away on Friday.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/13/stuart-carlson-rip/
I was somewhat taken aback, seeing that Carlson and I were born only days apart. We even lived near one another, until I was seven. Carlson stayed with, and succeeded at, a career dream that I decided to abandon. The newspaper where he worked for 25 years notes his passing, but doesn’t mention he was forced to accept a “take it or else” buyout in 2008.
Andrew at Parlogram Auctions delves into the Beatles’ forced return to Hamburg in late 1962. It had been almost exactly a year since Ringo sat in for Pete Best at the Cavern, making it inevitable that he would become a Beatle.*
I have both an American and a German copy of the LP. Andrew prefers the German pressing, and so do I, but it must be noted that both editions are in that most irritating of audio formats, “fake stereo” (with Haeco-CSG processing being a close second).
This mono copy sounds nice and solid. Saying something is “SUPER RARE” is funny, because that’s no longer true the moment it’s on YouTube.
*All These Years: Tune In, Extended Special Edition, by Mark Lewisohn, Vol. 2, pgs. 1044-1045
My irrelevant question regarding the first House hearing on the January 6 insurrection is, what video projector are they using?
Listening to Ivanka’s brief comment reminded me of someone.
OMG… that’s it! Ivanka is Lydia from Breaking Bad!
https://youtu.be/apFR2OKKhlw
Somebody somewhere decided to declare this Donald Duck Day, noting that it’s the 88th anniversary of his first appearance in Disney’s “The Wise Little Hen.”
