Dec 6, 2021
I’ve been restoring my 1940s Scully record lathe for nine or ten years now, and it’s only been very recently that I have got all the internal gear workings together. It’s still not up and running, but it’s REAL close. But when I started testing the functionality of...
Dec 5, 2021
Here’s a fun piece of recording studio history: Cinema Engineering’s chief designer Art Davis came out with the first “graphic equalizer,” the Cinema 7080, around 1950 or 1951. They are rare as hens’ teeth. I always wanted one and found a junked example a few years...
Dec 3, 2021
A very heavy package arrived yesterday. Lo and behold, it was Nacho Banos’s (and Lynn Wheelwright’s) new “book” on the earliest Fender guitars, called The Pinecaster Book. Several years ago, Nacho wrote a book on Telecasters called The Blackguard Book that sort of...
Nov 25, 2021
Just watched part 1 of the Peter Jackson Get Back Beatles documentary. Fascinating stuff, I thought. A few observations that you didn’t ask for, but I thought were interesting (and as always, pretty much just my opinion, such as it is): 1. You really understand,...
Nov 11, 2021
I have two hours to kill in Burbank while Evelyn is at her guitar class, so here’s a musical history tour for you, preserved on video because I’m pretty sure this will all be gone by next year. Here is Pickwick Bowl and the Pickwick ice-skating rink. Behind the...
Oct 27, 2021
It was a gift that we still had Rose Lee until 2021. Her history goes back so far that none of her contemporaries are still living. She was literally the last woman standing, until she passed away yesterday at the age of ninety-eight. A few biographical details: She...
