What are you listening to at the moment?

rbiemer said:
I think I have actually seen the term "vintage digital" used somewhere before with deadly earnestness(either the bay or goodwill--can't recall) about one of those old metal "calculators" the kind that only added and were manipulated with a pen or pencil point. I remember my folk's bank giving them away in the late 60's as promos to get us kids to open accounts. Which I didn't do.
Rob
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Yeah, I had one of those stupid mechanical calculators where you stuck a stylus into some vertical slots and moved stips of metal up and down. Worked, kinda. Then I stuck my finger in there, dang near ripped my fingernail off with it. Then I used it as target practice for my .410 shotgun. Came apart real nice.

Later, had 4-function Commodore calculator with GREEN readout - LED segments, I think. Before they ever sold a computer. Shoulda kept that one. Sigh.
 
Not intentionally but I did keep alot of my childhodd toys that are now worth fairly serious $. Nice big box in the dry, relatively cool attic of my folks house.
Great plan cuz they'd never sell the house and move or anything like that...oh, wait, they did sell the house and move very quickly after all us kids left home. After they had a major yard sale. I'm pretty sure I was living/boozing in Colorado at the time. :bang: They did save all my books, though. :) I do stay away from the kids toys on the bay as it causes me to wince too often. :rolleyes:
I don't regret my wasted youth very much or very often, just abit now and then.
Rob
Pop was a mechanical engineer before retirement and I do still have the slide rule he gave me way back when(I was 10 or 11).
 
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Trevor Pinnock playing Bach Partita No 5. I regret having to confess that I have used mechanical calculators, slide rules (I still have 3 or 4), and 10 figure log tables for serious stuff. Sometimes there's wierd and then really wierd, or wired I forget.
 
Try www.kplu.org - GREAT jazz and NPR news. Sounds terrific on my 1982 Technics SA-828 stereo receiver with BIG KLH speakers !
Then there's Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture in E Flat Major. BANG*
 
bmattock said:
Night of the Living Dregs - still a favorite. Every listen to Southern Culture on the Skids? Different, but somehow - the same.
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Bill

I have some Dregs bootlegs and DVD's. Want me to burn copies for you? I've met Steve Morse, many times over the years. Great guy and the worlds best guitarist. Brilliant composer too.

Russ
 
Dave Matthews Band Live at Red Rocks... The Warehouse...oops, now it's their cover of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower (who hasn't covered that song?)
 
Beethoven's 4th Symphony. The downloadable BBC version from about a month or so ago.

William
 
bmattock said:
99 Luftballoons by Goldfinger (punk cover). Diggin' it.
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Nice! Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies do punk covers of adult contemporary classics (think Neil Diamond/Elton John and other great 80's roadtrip with my dad type songs).

They are a tonne of fun and everyone knows all the words.
 
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