Random Thoughts - Part III The Search for Spark (No Politics)

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

My dad still has a player and a box of 8-tracks from I don't know where. Not sure if part of nostalgic collection or packrat.

I still have about 20 8 track tapes. They would likely disintegrate the second you put them in a player though.

[Spuds]

Lol getting my chimney swept is going to cost $600. I should probably just ask my father in law for his brushes.

[2020BRZtS]

Does anyone have access to a service to pull a VIN from an out of service expired tag?

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Lol getting my chimney swept is going to cost $600. I should probably just ask my father in law for his brushes.

That is big money job in some counties here. 600 though

[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I was spoiled by the best radio in the world growing up across the lake from Toronto between Rochester and Buffalo in the late-70s-early-80s. What an absolutely beautiful mix of influences that was!

Then I left and learned what was being played in the rest of the U.S. Blecch... So sad.

Sounds like CHUM FM 104.5

[Kiske]

45f cloudy day tomorrow after a couple weeks straight of of 90f+ sunshine.

I think some bbq and modeling is in order!

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I was spoiled by the best radio in the world growing up across the lake from Toronto between Rochester and Buffalo in the late-70s-early-80s. What an absolutely beautiful mix of influences that was!

Then I left and learned what was being played in the rest of the U.S. Blecch... So sad.

I grew up with a couple of the best rock stations in the county. Both within a mile of my house.

[weederr33]

I came to a conclusion today: Battalion Commanders are part of some sort of secret society or special Fraternity/Sorority. They are elusive and will sham out of anything. Meanwhile, the lower officers are plebs not high enough rank/time-in-service to afford shamming.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Stephen W.

Sounds like CHUM FM 104.5

That was one of them. I still have this virgin sticker somewhere in a drawer.



Crazy times when I had silly dreams of working in radio.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by weederr33

I came to a conclusion today: Battalion Commanders are part of some sort of secret society or special Fraternity/Sorority. They are elusive and will sham out of anything. Meanwhile, the lower officers are plebs not high enough rank/time-in-service to afford shamming.

That's just how middle management works.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by Spuds

That's just how middle management works.

WELL I DON'T LIKE IT!!!

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Classic rock stations are usually the worst. They only pay for about 20 songs and just play them over and over. The funny part is that much of what is now classic rock was hardly ever played on the radio when it first came out. Radio play was usually Muskrat Love or Tie a Yellow Ribbon pop crap not rock songs.
Lets take the top 100 for 1973 as an example.
Notice the complete and total lack of anything in the top ten that can even remotely be tied to what classic ROCK stations play now. Hell, you don't get a real rock song until Smoke on the Water at #50.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billbo...ingles_of_1973

i can't stand any radio stations for anymore than a day anymore. they all really only play 20 songs...

only exception is a college station that barely comes in from time to time. when i can get it, it'll go from blues to rock to rap to country. i think i've heard 1 song twice in 3 weeks.


for those with an internet connection where you want to listen:
http://radio.garden

[86-75309]

'73 was about the last year of my top 40 AM radio phase. I eventually transitioned from WLS and WCFL coming out of Chicago to the local college FM station. That happened about the time I started having enough money to be able to afford albums and not just 45 rpm singles.

In high school some friends and I started a band. Back in those days, every high school had several bands that would compete for every dance and party. Then, all of a sudden, disco hit town. Rock bands were losing out to DJs for gigs. Punk rock/new wave eventually came along to make live performances fashionable again. Our band was reinvigorated. We gigged a lot during my college years and then we all went our separate ways upon graduation.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Well I hear it about 2-3 times a day now. Is a classic rock station, which is about the only radio station I get good reception on.......



I turn off my radio whenever The Who - Wont Get Fooled Again, plays.

Maybe you need a new antenna -