You can tell by this photo that having a reel-to-reel tape recorder was a pretty big thing back in the sixties. In this photograph: Irene, David, Jennie, Brooky gather around to record a song on the new contraption. Mom is holding Cindy in the background. Dad of course is hogging the microphone. You can tell by the look on Brooky's face that he really-really likes what he sees - and perhaps - this event was ground zero of his love of that analog experience.
Monday, May 5, 2008
we were so hi-tech back then
You can tell by this photo that having a reel-to-reel tape recorder was a pretty big thing back in the sixties. In this photograph: Irene, David, Jennie, Brooky gather around to record a song on the new contraption. Mom is holding Cindy in the background. Dad of course is hogging the microphone. You can tell by the look on Brooky's face that he really-really likes what he sees - and perhaps - this event was ground zero of his love of that analog experience.
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o.k. here is my confession.
I use to take my tape recorder to the drive in and record the movie. Take it back home and play it until I had memorized tons of dialouge.
Man! I was desperate to capture sound, picture, images....anything I could keep for myself. I think they call it obsessive compulsive today....I called it fun.
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I forgot to mention. I was a tiny reel to reel like in the picture and I think you could get maybe 20 minutes if you recorded at the slowest speed. I remember buying multiple reels of tape so I could "capture" the entire movie or at least the best parts.
I recorded James Bond THUNDERBALL.
I also had a copy of Godzilla Versus the Smog Monster. WHy? I don't know.
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o.k. my last post.
In the last entry I said that "I was a tiny reel to reel" I was not. I had a tiny Reel to Reel recorder. There...is......a....gap...between....what.....my.....mind...thinks....and....my....fingers.....type.
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I remember taking a portable cassette into a theater in either Columbia or Macon were I recorded both A Fistful of Dollars ("Don Miguel Rojo, I hear you're hiring on men. Well, I just might be available. One thing--I don't work cheap." Later, "My mistake. Four coffins.") and For a Few Dollars More (Klaus Kinski: "Come on smoker, strike another one." Lee Van Cleef: "I generally smoke after I eat.") We didn't just know the dialog, we knew the sound effects.
It was Macon amigo.
We enjoyed those Spaghetti Westerns on various levels.
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