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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…
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All that glitters.
Hello my friends. Last week we looked at LaserDisc, the optical 12 inch transparent disc media read by a laser for music and video playback. This week we take that to the next level with the smaller CD technology as we start to get all interactive. Let’s explore and welcome back ☺️ It would be…
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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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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…