I think I'll let my daughter find a turntable -- her gen finds them appealing, I guess, how we Boomers find wind-up Victrolas -- and have her make a digital copy with all the hisses scratches and pops.
Seriously, I do have B-o-B in MP3 format. "Album." Now there's an out-of-date term; even LPs weren't truly "albums," which named thick collections of shellac 78s in bound sleeves. (I do remember turntables with 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm speed selections, though.) I sang to my infant daughter too, mostly old American folk songs. She's never forgiven me in the 20 years of her life. Kidding, but I expect I got as much pleasure from it as she. Back to bikes: I wish my daughter would ask me to build her a RBW-ian type bike, but she's artsy rather than bikey. On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 3:52 PM Paul Brodek <pcb.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. "Somebody" needs a turntable. I'm sure ibob can hook you up. > 2. My oldest son was what we still evidently call colicky. There were only > 3 surefire routes to a subtle rocking sleep: > a. Missippi John Hurt, "Best Of" (Oberlin College, '65): He could not last > beyond Here I Am, Lord Send Me/I Shall Not Be Moved/Nearer My God To Thee. > Winner, winner, chicken dinner. > b. Keith Jarrett+, Standards Vol I: God Bless The Child was the magic > cut---but this was only available in Laser Disc for years, so cuing that > all up etc was quite the production. > c. Me singing "Cockles and Mussels," in the worst fake Irish accent > possible; don't know where that came from, maybe from mom's rural Tenn > childhood? Though I never heard her sing it. Definitely not with my mostly > German dad. All I took away from that was the childhood horrors of > Struwwelpeter. Cockles & Mussels took 3 or 4 cycles/renditions for sleep to > arrive, but I could sing it without having to power up a musical > reproduction device. > 3. I've had some recent insomnia, and there's been some MJH, > Garcia/Grisman, also Coltrane/Coleman/Miles/Monk, and lots of Leonard > Cohen. I find the musical content taking precedence over the reproduction > quality, so low-volume smartphone playback substitutes nicely in place of > Patrick's wayback speaker sandwich; also bone induction headphones are > comfy to fall asleep to. Oh, and BTW to Patrick, there's something to be > said for lumping a whole bunch of digitized files together and being able > to hit Play and get 100 cuts of whatever floats yer boat to unspool into > your brain. > > If there's an off-ramp back to On-Topic Land, youngest son is now 28, > wondering where his childhood went, and I'm busy scheming ways to get him > to take away 2-3 of my bikes as "his," convenient because both boys and me > fit the same size bikes. I'm sure he wouldn't mind me borrowing one of > "his" bikes if I drop in... > > Paul Brodek > Hillsdale, NJ USA > > On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 3:01:55 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Yah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91XCNix2tg >> >> Jerry Garcia and compadre channeling Mississippi John Hurt (an orig vers >> here: https://youtu.be/vPuj2dUeyJ4) but doing it better. And Whiskey in >> the Jar, etc. >> >> Seriously, I've been listening to Bob since 1969, so I'm not deprecating >> his very obvious genious. (I also had a small MJH collection, not to >> mention the obvious Muddy Waters, BB King, etc etc etc.) >> >> Funny anecdote; at least, funny to me: one of my favorite albums circa >> 1969 was Dylan's Blonde on Blonde -- I still think it's one of his best. I >> recall teenage insomnia, when I would leave my bed, go to the "parlour," >> the sitting room for our children's part of the house, where my father had >> installed his castoff Phillips stereo when he upgraded. I'd take the >> speakers off the wall where they were hanging, set up a pallent on my floor >> and sit the speakers one by each ear, and listen to my faves. My parents >> were in the new part of the house, about a half-mile away, and the 2 of my >> 3 siblings who slept in the old part slept soundly. >> >> Anyway, 52 years later, my daughter's boyfriend, a musician, very sweetly >> presented me with that same Blonde on Blonde album; only now, I have >> nothing to play it on. I'll use it as wall art. >> >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 6:12 PM John A. Bennett <jabi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> At least as good as Dylan? Whaaaat? Call me confused! >>> >>> >>> https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/static/uploads/2020/03/Watch-Bob-Dylans-iconic-San-Francisco-press-conference-1965-768x586.jpg >>> >>> John in Portland, Ore. >>> >>> On Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 4:32:24 PM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote: >>> >>>> I grew up with vinyl LPs and transitioned to cassettes (magnetic tape, >>>> not HG) and CDs easily enough, but navigating MP3 or whateverthehell >>>> current formats are is something I find confusing. >>>> >>>> I'd like to get, in particular, these 2 albums: Jerry Garcia and David >>>> Grisman, "Shady Grove," and (ditto), The Pizza Tapes. >>>> >>>> Is there any *secure and reliable source* from which to pay online by >>>> PP or CC and download the whole albums to one's computer? >>>> >>>> Not long ago I bought the Complete Works of JS Bach on 142 or so CDs, >>>> and have had to beg and pay people to convert them to files I can store on >>>> my computer and on a separate hard drive. >>>> >>>> In anticipated appreciation of all y'alls help, I append this, which >>>> sufficiently proves the reasonableness of my desire. >>>> >>>> Note: This track is pure "just ride" music. >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91XCNix2tg >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Patrick Moore >>>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>>> >>>> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4a8ebfeb-f792-451b-a539-96997dbca075n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4a8ebfeb-f792-451b-a539-96997dbca075n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c02245d0-1b62-4827-8701-8d7cb84afbe2n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c02245d0-1b62-4827-8701-8d7cb84afbe2n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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