It is a tintype.

He worked in a woolen mill in the Huddersfield area. That was my family’s business. His father was a drayman… He had a horsecart and delivered kegs of beer to pubs. Of course he had to try a little at each stop, […]

My brother colorized it.

My great, great grandparents when they were married at Parrish Church in Huddersfield in 1855.

I remember back in the audiophile LP days they released a bunch of albums in half speed mastered versions. A few years later, CDs were released and they put out the same titles on gold CDs. When SACDs came out, […]

There’s no output without input. Creativity is building on the foundation of what came before.

Cool World “It’s A Cool Cool World”

Not exactly strenuous music to play. Plenty of time for a cigarette and a ham sandwich.

I really like the Amazon one. It has a spectacular multichannel mix. There’s a song where you can hear little pot bellied pigs or guinea pigs or some sort of pig rooting around while the music plays.

I worked on a movie where David Bowie knocked out a lousy “for the money” title song. It’s pretty common.

I said I had run out of stories, but I just thought of one more. This one is about a cursed CD. I was digging through the stacks of used CDs at my favorite rekkid store and I happened upon one called Myron […]

Wow! Enough of those and you can retire!

I have one more record related story… A friend of mine came over to listen to records with me. He asked me, “Of all your records, which one is your favorite?” I went over to the shelf and got a 78 of Cab Callo […]

I had a small business transferring 78 for CD release back in the 90s, and got a good reputation for the quality of my work. I got a call one day from a lady who had been recommended to me. She was a concert […]

V-Disks are public domain because the copyright and royalties were donated to the Us government. That has meant that there have been a lot of LP and CD collections of the hundreds of disks of musical programs. […]

I had that record when I was little! My brother collected Edison cylinders and diamond disks and whenever he got a 78 mixed in, he would give them to me.

That is a good wedding gift. Especially if it was a Vee-Jay one! I suppose a butcher cover isn’t appropriate as a wedding gift…

Here’s my Califone school phonograph…

I don’t see any point to stuff like this. If you are going to completely reinvent the song, well… maybe if it works. But just doing a new version of the same basic thing isn’t worth doing. It’s like taking a […]