Here's a bit of news that left me wistful and a bit sad, but at the same time there's so much pure awesome to it that I could not help but smile ( Read more... )

Aw, man, how could I forget? It's also the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes BackI should have used Post-It notes as reminders. They also turned 30 today. I coulda used them in high school. Too late to that party too ( Read more... )

Today the music world died yet again. Les Paul, guitarist extraordinaire and inventor of the fabled electric guitar that bears his name and a standard fixture all over the music world, has died. He was 94.

A heartfelt thank you for all the music over the years.

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Somewhere, a guitar amp that's always set to 11, is turned all the way down to zero.

Here at the Garage Of Mayhem (and it's subdivisions, annexes and ad-hoc entities) lots of things get worked on, tinkered with, repaired, or just plain torn down and reassembled for fun. These might be cars, appliances, computers, machinery, gadgets, what have you. And in more times than not, with no help from any sort of shop manual, parts list, ( Read more... )

Yesterday I heard that the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died, after 97 full years of life. As many of you might know, I have been an aficionado of sorts of all things Titanic, the ship itself, the era it was born in, the industrial might of the day, the people, and, of course, the tragedy itself and the resulting ( Read more... )

There's this guy, you see ( Read more... )

When I was a wee young'un, one of my prized possessions was my Panasonic cassette recorder. I had actually a few over the years, as I literally wore them out from the use/abuse I subjected them to. I would record music form the radio, or from my record player, often with these homemade direct connection cables for the highest fidelity I could ( Read more... )

With the new movie coming out, I can't help but remember how good the original radio broadcast was, especially given the time it was originally aired. I had a cassette of the broadcast for umpteen years, but it has since gone AWOL. So imagine my geeky happiness at finding the entire original broadcast linked from a forum thread. I decided that it's ( Read more... )