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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:50:52 EST
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) turntable recommendations
In a message dated 2/22/1 1:13:22 AM, erik@khirqa.com wrote:
>On the other hand, if you have $1200 or so, you could pick up a Linn LP12
>and make the Thorens sound like a Close-n-Play...
I bought a pair of Technique 1800's in 1981, yes, 1981. They still work fine.
They were around $350 each back then, twenty years ago. I just change the
needles every year or so at 20 a whack and the cartridges every five years
at about $115 each.. If I were in the market today, it would be the tried,
tested, and proven Techniques 1200. Even at $625 (lowest I've seen them
priced at lately) it'll last you a lifetime. Forget about those previously
enjoyed turntables IMHO...Those physical plants aren't ready to face a heavy
user like you, you, OR you!...JB
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:12:10 EST
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Another Exotica Summit
This list has been a great experience for a fella like me ...So it was with
great enthusiasm that both Brother Cleve and myself were able to enjoy a
couple of Stardusts with fellow lister HouseofBob as he was in our town
shooting stills for a band coming out with a CD. The summit took place at
11PM at The B-Side Lounge in Cambridge where Cleve designed the cocktail
menu. It was yet another exotica moment that makes membership on this list an
added bonus to living...For local folks, Bob was staying with Peter Wallace,
creator of "Harry Fig's Neighborhood" which appears in the Boston Sunday
Globe in the City Weekly section...JB/viva exotica
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:40:17 -0500
From: Peter Gingerich <peter.gingerich@wcom.com>
Subject: (exotica) Another Exotica Summit
WHere is the B-Side Lounge? I'm going up to Cambridge this weekend.
Also B. Cleves club? and is anything interesting going on fri-sat?
(Feb.23-24)
thanx
pg in nyc
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:59:27 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) turntable recommendations
DJJimmyBee@aol.com schrieb:
> If I were in the market today, it would be the tried,
> tested, and proven Technics 1200. Even at $625 (lowest I've seen them
> priced at lately) it'll last you a lifetime. Forget about those previously
> enjoyed turntables IMHO...Those physical plants aren't ready to face a heavy
> user like you, you, OR you!...
I can only second this opinion. I mean for all of you vinyl fetishists... it's a once in a lifetime investment. Everybody who has one, every DJ says the same thing. It makes you feel good. It's the Rolls Royce of turntables. The imagination alone of unpacking a crisp mint fresh brandnew Technics 1200 at home makes my heart beat faster... You haven't lived until you call one your own...
Mo
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:02:32 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Reid Russell Diamond
At 10:53 AM 2/22/01 -0500, nytab@pipeline.com wrote:
>
>February 20, 2001
>
>Shadowy Men Bassist Dead at 42
>Reid Russell Diamond, best known as the bassist for Canadian instrumental
trio
I knew someday I'd read one where I actually knew the guy.
I knew him "to say hello" as they say.
And just so you guys can all relate to this, I mostly knew him because he
was a clerk at the oldest used record store in town (Driftwood, which
actually just went out of business a few months ago.)
This is sad on a bunch of levels but also because his latest band King Cobb
Steelie was finally starting to get some recognition.
You never know when a death is going to actually effect you, do ya?
AZ
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:11:36 -0500
From: edowning@lightbridge.com
Subject: (exotica) Turntables....
I have to agree with all of the "Technics" owners out there...I had a DJ
friend who
needed to sell 2 of his Technics turntables and I got one of them...they
enrich the sound
it seems....beautiful...very true
eric
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:24:55 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) speaking of turntables
does anyone have any opinions on the Denon DP-DJ/151 turntable, billed as the first Digital Turntable?
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:46:35 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits] John Fahey, Philip Sandblom, Robert Weiskopf
Obituaries in the News
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:31 a.m. ET
http://www.elvispelvis.com/johnfahey.htm
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22john+fahey%22
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- John Fahey, an acoustic guitarist whose polished steel-string variations in the 1960s and 1970s, died Thursday. He was 61.
Fahey slipped into a coma after open-heart surgery Monday and was taken off life support Thursday.
Rolling Stone magazine called Fahey's self-published 1959 debut, ``The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death,'' the ``most famous obscure album of recent times.'' It had a pressing of 95 copies but was picked up by underground radio stations.
On the album, Fahey invented the black musician Blind Joe Death, whose work filled one side of the LP, to give his own music authenticity.
Fahey made about 40 albums, including ``The Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favorites'' in 1964 and ``Fare Forward Voyagers'' in 1973. He shared a Grammy Award in 1997 for writing album liner notes for ``Anthology of American Folk Music.''
Philip Sandblom
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Philip Sandblom, a U.S.-born Swedish surgeon who studied the link between art and illness, died Wednesday after a fall. He was 97.
Sandblom's most famous book, ``Creativity and Disease,'' studied the effects of mental illness, drug addiction and pain on 140 authors, artists and composers, including Mozart, Monet and Lord Byron.
He also wrote a series of books on surgery and a history of surgical research.
He was an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the surgical societies in Sweden, Britain, Denmark, France, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Norway and Germany.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Emmy-winning comedy writer Robert ``Bob'' Weiskopf, who wrote for ``I Love Lucy,'' ``Maude,'' ``All in the Family'' and several other hit shows, died Tuesday at 86.
Weiskopf and his writing partner, Robert A. Schiller, shared the Writers Guild Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television in 1988 for writers who have ``advanced the literature of television.''
They earned Emmys for ``The Flip Wilson Show'' in 1971 and ``All in the Family'' in 1978. They also shared Writers Guild awards for work on ``I Love Lucy,'' ``The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,'' ``Maude'' and ``All in the Family.''
Weiskopf, a Chicago native, began his writing career in radio and moved to Hollywood in 1940. He sold jokes to Bob Hope before landing a regular job with ``The Eddie Cantor Show.''
After moving to New York and meeting Schiller, he settled into television comedy, writing for Danny Thomas' ``Make Room for Daddy'' and Eve Arden's ``Our Miss Brooks.'' They also wrote for comedians including Red Skelton, Phyllis Diller and Carol Burnett.
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:29:38 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Trader Vic's
http://tikiland.de/tradermain.html
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:38:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Ron Grandia <rgrandia@xtabay.com>
Subject: (exotica) vinyl dj-ing on a budget
> That's how I learned that there's nothing wrong
with a belt-drive turntable
> -- or at least, that a cheap belt-drive Technics is
much better than a
> cheap direct-drive Technics. ONLY the SP-1200 has
enough torque in its
> direct-drive motor to get "up to speed" in a
reasonable amount of time
If one HAS to make due with cheapie tables, as I did
in my early "career" as a DJ, I learned a trick from
an old radio guy called Slip-Cueing.
Those slip mats are necessary for scratching, BUT if
you need an accurate cue with a belt-drive table, let
the platter spin up to speed, find the first sound in
the groove, and then stop the record from spinning,
but allow the platter to spin undernerneath (please
only do this with a slip mat for obvious reasons)
back the record just a smidge, and let it fly when
the time is right. Since th platter is already
spinning, the record is at-speed in "record-time."
(sorry)
I used a table so weak, the platter would strain
under the friction, so I'd have to throw the record
forward - YIKES! It worked though.
Dig yourself, babies.
Ron Grandia
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:04:57 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: (exotica) new sleeves
I'm just so happy with my new soft plastic sleeves for my CD booklets. (Martin! They arrived!) Cost 1.40 $ for 100 and fit like a glove. so nice! still very space-saving but much more protective than my former "system" with the naked booklets in cigar boxes. You can also go much better through the CDs with your finger-tips.
I also bought a "CD wallet" for 74 CDs on the road, i.e. DJing etc. Looks very handy.
And a couple of blank cardboard boxes CD-size for extra protection when mailing a CD.
This mailorder has a lot of nice things to offer: Like this "grind & polish" CD repair kit I mentioned before, and a "record film" to clean LPs by pouring a fluid onto the LP surface and drawing it off after it dried = supposed to clean the record very good.
Haven't tried this yet.
Here is their URL, they offer a catalogue too: http://protected.de
