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Wow…What a difference! Part 1
Hello my friends. This week we journey back to 1997. The film Titanic was set to make its home video release and it was a massive launch and l had just started my first day at my new job. This job l would have for the next 10 years and it would allow me to…
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The big 5
Hello my friends. Last week we looked at the rise of CD’s and CD-Rom technology. With the combination of that and the LaserDisc/VCD systems that were available but not widely adopted, we are on the threshold of the DVD revolution. Once again, the path to this new format would be a rocky road that needed…
1970’s, 1980’s, Amiga, CD, CD-Rom, Cinema, Computers, Film, LaserDisc, Mac, Philips, Retro Audio, Retro Computers, Retro Gaming Consoles, Sega, Sony, Uncategorized, VHS, Video, Windows70’s, 80s, Amiga, Cinema, Commodore, Computers, electronics, Film, IBM, music, PC, Philips, retro, Sony, Toshiba, VHS, Video, video editing, Video games, video tape, vintage audio, Windows -
We’re off to see the Wizard.
Hello my friends. Continuing and concluding (for now) the musical theme of the last 4 weeks of previous blog entries, we are still in the early 80’s. I have my Casio VL-1 and l also have my beloved Commodore 64. A new wave of electronic music is sweeping in and my Father has a chance…
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Keynotes
Hello my friends. From the last blog entry we are staying in the world of music this week. My Mother and Uncle H pop up today and also my Father bumps into a fledgling musician that will go on to write and preform some of the most memorable electronic music of the 80’s! Welcome back…
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The chances of anything coming from Mars…
Hello my friends. In the last blog entry we looked at my childhood experiences with 70’s audio equipment. We are now about to dip our toes into the early 80’s and l get captured by a piece of tech that I will have a life long fascination with. We will also talk about my first…
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This is a journey into sound
Hello my friends. Being a child of the early 70’s, entertainment was quite rudimentary but it doesn’t mean it was boring, far from it. One of the underlying loves of mine from those days right up to now and for the rest of my life will always be music, sounds, listening and playing. We will…
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He made me an offer l couldn’t refuse.
Hello friends and now for that tricky third album, l mean blog post. I hope you are having fun reading these so far and welcome back. I’m a Godfather. In fact, twice over to a little boy and girl that aren’t so little any more being teenage and in their twenties respectively…wow where have the…