Duggeh

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Got up, checked emails, went back to bed, slept in. Hoovered the house, weeded the garden, trimmed the edges ffo the lawn, weeded the gravel (PITA). Mowed the lawn. Did 4 lots of washing. Reorgansied the storeroom shelving, fixed 3 thermos flasks, spent some time cajoling my brother into doing the ironing (my god is he slow at it). Went and spoke to Lisa at the university department office for news. Went to the recycling centre and had fun smashing bottles into the banks while dodging wasps, also threw some stuff into the "can't be recylced for shit" bin. Drove home the slow way through the East Neuk villages. Listened to 2 Reel To Reel tapes. Made some spaghetti pesto, drank 2 very fine bottles of ale and started on Negronis while logging into Head-Case and getting my dads opinion on the Thunderdome.

QE2 is one of two (that aren't bad or at least meh) albums in the Oldfield discography that just seems to get "forgotten". Along with The Killing Fields Soundtrack (which is so so good It's astonishing he never broke through into doing more film soundtracks). Opening track and Mirage are the winners on it for me. You get 415 DuggehPride points. You get +100 more if you own Airborn (the US version of Platinum). The counter simply doesn't turn over and resetting it (it's on 0000) does nothing. I really would rather use it as a reference than other more crude mechanical means. I may open up the machine an see if there is something obviously loose.

You have to play multimeter jenga to remove the killer probes from the high voltage elephant first.

Feta stuffed olives. But only because I've eaten all the garlic stuffed ones. Om nom nom nom.

Are you Korean? ...

But I've been waitingin line for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages. And there's this smell of pizza up near the front! "Don't play innocent with me Bazza!"

Do like. And I'm a cat person. Moar pics plz kthx

Dachshund cross?

Most of the tapes in the box are untitled. No contents list of any kind. There are 15 of them. All 10 inch, all either 15ips or 7&1/2ips that I can discern from context. I listened to 2 today. A 7&1/2ips compilation of tracks from John Williams, Mike Oldfield (see why I put it on) and Neil Diamond songs. TBH, it sounded like a recording of some LPs. The other tape was, must be, has to be, a first generation recording of some classical music played psudo-jazz style by a wee band. It was so absolutely fabulous. Lovely. Delicious. To give you an idea of how nice it was, I listened to it through a Bose Acoustimass speaker rig because I've lost the cables for the Quads and it still blew me away. The tapes remaining that have any hint to content are Beethovens 3rd, 4th and 7th and 2 tapes just marked "Bach". Looking forward to the many hours of finding out what is on all the tapes. In the bad news, the counter on the machine seems to be broken. And I get the feeling that'll be an awkward amount of effort to undertake a simple repair. But that it doesn't work makes track delineation impossible. Ay and there's the rub.

As someone who got a good hard shovelling when he first came here, and then didn't come back for many months. I cannot advocate hard enough the necessity for it. Especially since if it hadn't happened you'd have got a stupid moron nerd arsehole without a clue instead of a stupid moron nerd arsehole with a ticket #499538 in the queue to get a clue.

I toss mine onto pizzas, beside the artichokes.

Were there lots of kilts and ginger beards and inbreeding and racism for the proper Scottish experience?

Thanks. It's good to have someone here give a thumbs up to the machine. It certainly looks in pristine physical condition, there isn't even a tiny hazy scratch on the dust cover and the documentation indicates that it's all serviced and up to spec. I've heard about the tape project tapes. I think I first read the name in the Canjam impressions thread, certainly it was a meet with a RTR and some AD2000s connected to it. Those prices are seriously heavy duty stuff though. Additionally, none of them are albums I've heard before. Could you possibly give a wee rundown of the albums you have and which ones you really like and why? If I've got the machine for nothing it would be apt to get at least one nice tape for it (I haven't yet looked at the tapes that came with it). Is there a backstock of RTR tapes like there is for LPs? Am I likely to find, say, Donald Fagens Nightfly on RTR tape? I won't kid myself that there could possibly be anything released after, say, 1985 thats on RTR. Fiddly indeed. I'm finding out whats involved in putting in tapes just to play them. And I can remember when I got my turntable and being just as thrown, except already better read on the subject. 2 track, 4 track, mono and stereo, record, play, erase, IPS speeds, reel sizes. Madness. Yeah, I went onto ebay and had a look at what tapes there were. There were very few and they didn't look up to all that. Seeking is no problem, like with my turntable I wouldn't be doing anything other than listening through full albums with this sort of rig and I lived with cassettes and VHS for long enough to be able to cope with fast forward and rewind

Because through a series of strange machinations a Revox B-77 and several tapes have found their way here free gratis. I'm reading google things and it came with the manual and stuff. Is this a format worth getting into?

Win.

Hippitty Baikdai! I'll send some flours.

Hippitty Burpdai Old Bean!

I use a kirby grip to clean my ears.

Hippitty Burpdai Squire!

Hippitty Burpdai Dood!!!

It's going to be aaaaages yet before mine arrives. It's good to see these amps coming through to their loving new homes.

What a dissapointingly mundane reason. Means he got the name of the snack right though.

Why is the lizard British?