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Jim Rosenthal
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Hiya Keith, no harm meant, you aren't really a sociopath, you're just a badass like the rest of us here. Get well soon, or (per your recent post) back to your previous level of getting around..... sorry you are not feeling well.
I think you ought to take up Jimbo's offer and raise a little hell in the States for a while!
Yep - badass is good.. :thumbsup:
Oh if only I could Mr F and Kaliforn- i -a would be first on my list. When I was last there I got chucked out of Filthy McNasty's in LA.
Chucked out of Filthy's!
I told them, "I have been thrown out of far better places than this dump"
Didn't help.
He used to go around in a hearse as I recall - is it (the bar) still there?
Long gone lad. They got in trouble for selling alcohol to "intoxicated customers" or some such horror. The whole scene died with the passing of Evil Kneivel I. personally, believe.
But,,,,, we could hook you up with some nice bath salts!!
But,,,,, we could hook you up with some nice bath salts!!
You wouldn't be related to Ron White by any chance, would you?!
"I got thrown out of a bar in New York City." (R.W.)
Official Ron White I Got Thrown Out Of A Bar Video | MoSeeq
I love when yoofs call me "lad" 
Shame about Filthy's but Hollywood was a wild place back then, and there weren't any 'nasty' drugs!
There again I'm a bit different. To me, even the smog smelt...exciting!
I remember being taken to a roller disco by a Vice President of Cerwin Vega and my God, talk about jailbait. So he offered me a 'pinch' of cocaine in the shelter of a fire exit. It was in a plastic type pill dispenser tube and I didn't really want to indulge - I was just being polite. Seriously I have NEVER been a user even if I did inhale! Anyway, it seems you sprinkle this stuff along the back of your hand and snort it mightily - which I then did (after him of course).
To this day, hand on heart I can still tell you that I have never ever taken Class A drugs, as the instant reaction was to sneeze profusely and I guess I must have showered him with about $100 bucks worth of the hit. He wasn't happy, and I never got the big discounts on his speakers I specifically flew over there to get.
A later coke fueled terrifying drive in a minvan down Mulholland with me hanging on in the back (the seats had been removed) persuaded me that a) I was was eternally grateful to have lost that shit otherwise I may have enjoyed it, and b) to look up JBL the very next day, but that, as they say, is another story.
Shame about Filthy's but Hollywood was a wild place back then, and there weren't any 'nasty' drugs!
There again I'm a bit different. To me, even the smog smelt...exciting!
I remember being taken to a roller disco by a Vice President of Cerwin Vega and my God, talk about jailbait. So he offered me a 'pinch' of cocaine in the shelter of a fire exit. It was in a plastic type pill dispenser tube and I didn't really want to indulge - I was just being polite. Seriously I have NEVER been a user even if I did inhale! Anyway, it seems you sprinkle this stuff along the back of your hand and snort it mightily - which I then did (after him of course).
To this day, hand on heart I can still tell you that I have never ever taken Class A drugs, as the instant reaction was to sneeze profusely and I guess I must have showered him with about $100 bucks worth of the hit. He wasn't happy, and I never got the big discounts on his speakers I specifically flew over there to get.
A later coke fueled terrifying drive in a minvan down Mulholland with me hanging on in the back (the seats had been removed) persuaded me that a) I was was eternally grateful to have lost that shit otherwise I may have enjoyed it, and b) to look up JBL the very next day, but that, as they say, is another story.
I thought that was the Welsh spelling :shocked:
Keith,
All the best to you, mate.
Steve.
All the best to you, mate.
Steve.
N o no no.. The 'W' word...... I am not well again now...
Thanks Stephen, now done ECG, got CT scan to go on Weds. Steroids kicking in, feel like going and and and, er, crushing a grape...:laugh:
To be honest I think the strawberry tart is OK. The Dr thought that the pain around the heart was muscular pain from coughing so much, so I think that the dreaded COPD has taken another lurch in a downward direction.
But heaps better than last Thursday my legs are now only twice the normal size. My spies tell me it's going to get real hot again..
By the way, with the boat virtually gone, the Monster Truck now history and other things, I have decided I am not going to doze all winter in my bloody chair like I did last/this year. I couldn't get out for around 3 months as the cold air is lethal, so I have adopted a new hobby.
I got in touch with Paulo, who is sailing almost ever weekend nowadays but still runs his model shop in Milan. Guess what? He's just got married to a gorgeous Swedish chick the lucky bastard and he's all but given up on getting a '40 owing to the Italian economy and ruthless rules against such cars.
I shall start making models and I will start with the Italari Vosper WWII MTB and move up from there as I am a complete novice with 10 thumbs. Paulo has given me lots of advice and sends his love. I love working boats especially of a military hue.
If it goes well, I might have to chuck out my massive pro audio PA gear collection and instruments to make some room.....
That is all.
Jim Rosenthal
Supporter
Send any/all your EAW speakers over here, I need them for my PA setup.....I would offer to trade you a Leslie cabinet but mine are set up to run on electricity not that drivel that comes out of the walls in the UK and Yurrup....fifty cycles, indeed, outrageous....
And it's NEVER all, mate......
And it's NEVER all, mate......
What on earth would I want a Leslie cabinet for? You can buy a decent Flanger for $50 and relegate the monster to a coffee table or somewhere to keep the Dobermans in if you take out all the speaker and washing machine motors.
Still some 'tube-amp' guy will give you good money for it.
Still, a quaint piece. 50 Hz is no problem, it just runs a little slower (faster?) is all..just change the pulley gearing slightly
As for EAW, I do have a couple (4) EAW designed Mackies but the last REAL EAW constructed cabinet I worked on was one of the 6 (!) Levan Horns installed at the Ministry of Sound London.
Richard Long Assocs were genius and well ahead of their time - I learned an awful lot from their philosophy in Manhattan and Chicago in the '70's.
Such gay times...
Still some 'tube-amp' guy will give you good money for it.
Still, a quaint piece. 50 Hz is no problem, it just runs a little slower (faster?) is all..just change the pulley gearing slightly
As for EAW, I do have a couple (4) EAW designed Mackies but the last REAL EAW constructed cabinet I worked on was one of the 6 (!) Levan Horns installed at the Ministry of Sound London.
Richard Long Assocs were genius and well ahead of their time - I learned an awful lot from their philosophy in Manhattan and Chicago in the '70's.
Such gay times...
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Jim Rosenthal
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I used to think that the modern LLOs (Leslie-like objects) did a pretty good job. That was before I had a chance to compare the real thing with the LLOs and electronic HLOs (Hammond like objects) The best imitation of the Hammond-Leslie sound is a modern digital Hammond played through a real Leslie. However, as good as it is, it does not sound like the real thing- the digital organ is a little too clean, the key-click is a little too consistent, and the distortion that you get from a real organ and real Leslie in combination isn't there. Mind you, if I was in a working band that had to tour and play gigs in different places for modest money every night, I wouldn't lug a B3 and associated bits around. I'd use the modern digital stuff. But when I've seen real bands with a touring budget who can afford the real thing, they ALWAYS have a 60s B3 and one real Leslie, usually a 145 or 122, miked, on stage.
You can listen to the modern ones all night long and some of them sound fairly good. Then, you hear the real thing played by someone who knows how to play a Hammond, and it becomes clear why every electronic keyboard has a Hammond patch or patches in it. That sound is one of the sounds that made rock 'n roll a great invention.
You can listen to the modern ones all night long and some of them sound fairly good. Then, you hear the real thing played by someone who knows how to play a Hammond, and it becomes clear why every electronic keyboard has a Hammond patch or patches in it. That sound is one of the sounds that made rock 'n roll a great invention.
