For all you old farts (born before 1967)

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Then I guess we were all long haired, bearded, entrepreneurs shortly after Woodstock and looked alike.
 
LOL. I grew that beard first when I was about 20. I had it before I got into the audio business and was actually working in the back office of a brokerage office. The funny thing is that I could have it there, wearing a suit everyday, but I couldn't have it when I started driving a cab in Minneapolis for a bit of extra, driving around in grubbies. I worked in the brokerage back office until the market turned bad and I got laid of and went to an electronics school, which is what I had wanted to do for ages. They hired me to run their studio, the one in the pix, after I graduated. I grew the beard back as soon as I quit driving cab, after only a few months, and still have it. It's a bit grey now though and a bit shorter. ;)
 
Old men and grey beards ..... we have that distinguished look going on.
 
we all look alike!

A neighbor brought over a newspaper that had some old guys pic in it playing guitar because he thought it was me.
When wifey came in last night, she saw it laying on the table and asked, "Where were you playing in this pic?"
I told her, "That's not me" ..... "But ..... it looks just like you."

:D:D
 
Lt. Bob said:
we all look alike!

A neighbor brought over a newspaper that had some old guys pic in it playing guitar because he thought it was me.
When wifey came in last night, she saw it laying on the table and asked, "Where were you playing in this pic?"
I told her, "That's not me" ..... "But ..... it looks just like you."

:D:D
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Happens all the time! Stereo typed and pidgin holed.
 
Wow, I'm officially an old fart? Do I get a card or something?:).
I started out with an old cassette recorder similar to the Hamilton Electronics HA-802 Cassette Player and Recorder. I would play a guitar part and sing along (or play another guitar part along for those cool Jim Croce songs) while recording into my brother's boom box. I used the little built-in condenser mic for both. Then I would play those 2 parts back from the boom box onto my cassette recorder as many times as I needed instruments and harmonies. This hiss was incredible:).

Eventually I graduated to doing the same thing but with better machines, like the ones in entertainment centers, and used a PA mixer in there somewhere. Finally, in 1988, I bought a Tascam Porta 5 4-track cassette recorder. That was a life-changer. One more 4-track cassette machine and a Sony DAT machine later, I got my first digital machine, the Roland VS-840. The next year I bought the VS-880 off e-bay for the amazing deal of $1200. That was my primary throughout the early 2000s, when I added outboard gear, monitor speakers (starting with Alesis Monitor Ones...now using the Event TR-8s), separate mic preamp (the Peavy VMP 2 Tube mic preamp, which I still use), compressor, EQ, etc. Then I made the jump to doing everything in the computer right around 2003, using Adobe Audition. Eventually I added Reaper as my DAW and continue to use AA as my editor.

That's about it in a nutshell from this old fart.

Cheers!

Ken
 
Many years ago Bobby Vee was a customer of mine. He was intested in a wireless mic at one time so I laoned him a high end one to try out at a concert. He was one of the best guys in the industry, just a good guy that everyone liked personally. He was, believe it or not, playing in the club at a bowling alley in Hopkins, Mn, a few miles from where I lived, so I and about 6 people from the office went to see him. He lives about 60 miles away. After his show I was standing on the stage talking to him when a fellow approached with a pen and paper in his hand. He looked up at us, reached up and pulled on my pants leg. I looked down and he asked for my autograph. At the time Bobby and I looked very similar, both with beards and similar builds. I looked at Bobby, he smiled. I took the paper and asked Bobby to turn around so I could use his back for doing an autograph. I signed the paper "Thanks for the support over all the years, Ricahard King" and handed it back to the guy. Bobby turned around and doubled over as he laughed and the auto seeker walked off. All the fellow workers there laughed also. ;)
 
Richard King said:
Many years ago Bobby Vee was a customer of mine. He was intested in a wireless mic at one time so I laoned him a high end one to try out at a concert. He was one of the best guys in the industry, just a good guy that everyone liked personally. He was, believe it or not, playing in the club at a bowling alley in Hopkins, Mn, a few miles from where I lived, so I and about 6 people from the office went to see him. After his show I was standing on the stage talking to him when a fellow approached with a pen and paper in his hand. He looked up at us, reached up and pulled on my pants leg. I looked down and he asked for my autograph. At the time Bobby and I looked very similar, both with beards and similar builds. I looked at Bobby, he smiled. I took the paper and asked Bobby to turn around so I could use his back for doing an autograph. I signed the paper "Thanks for the support over all the years, Ricahard King" and handed it back to the guy. Bobby turned around and doubled over as he laughed and the auto seeker walked off. All the fellow workers there laughed also. ;)
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Very cool story Richard.

So you had one of those piled high hairdos? Imagine a teen idol with a bread!
 
Lt. Bob said:
we all look alike!

A neighbor brought over a newspaper that had some old guys pic in it playing guitar because he thought it was me.
When wifey came in last night, she saw it laying on the table and asked, "Where were you playing in this pic?"
I told her, "That's not me" ..... "But ..... it looks just like you."

:D:D
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Richard King said:
After his show I was standing on the stage talking to him when a fellow approached with a pen and paper in his hand. He looked up at us, reached up and pulled on my pants leg. I looked down and he asked for my autograph. At the time Bobby and I looked very similar, both with beards and similar builds. I looked at Bobby, he smiled. I took the paper and asked Bobby to turn around so I could use his back for doing an autograph. I signed the paper "Thanks for the support over all the years, Ricahard King" and handed it back to the guy. Bobby turned around and doubled over as he laughed and the auto seeker walked off.
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Back in the mid 80s when I used to work with kids on adventure playgrounds, I was always spinning them ridiculous stories, but I was so believable, they'd end up falling for it, even the most cynically skeptical of Kilburnites. One day they came up to me and said "We didn't know you used to be an athlete !" I didn't know what they were on about but one of them had this book and in it was a picture of an athlete racing in the 1968 olympics in Mexico. He was doing the hurdles and this guy was a dead ringer of me. He looked more like me than I did ! So I pretended it was me. They were skeptical until I told them I came second last or something. They never thought to check that in '68 I was only 5. That was the year I started school..........
 
Look what I found. ;) lol
This was a bit before I signed an autograph for him (probably 1979 or so).
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Shouldn't you guys be in bed by now? It's almost 9PM!
 
grimtraveller said:
Back in the mid 80s when I used to work with kids on adventure playgrounds, I was always spinning them ridiculous stories, but I was so believable, they'd end up falling for it, even the most cynically skeptical of Kilburnites. One day they came up to me and said "We didn't know you used to be an athlete !" I didn't know what they were on about but one of them had this book and in it was a picture of an athlete racing in the 1968 olympics in Mexico. He was doing the hurdles and this guy was a dead ringer of me. He looked more like me than I did ! So I pretended it was me. They were skeptical until I told them I came second last or something. They never thought to check that in '68 I was only 5. That was the year I started school..........
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haha!

That's funny. So you were pretty fast for a kid then?
:D

Once when I was on the road in the late 70's we were up in Grand Rapids and we were all just killing time during the day wandering around the city like bands do.
So we went into a p0rn shop and were spread out looking at the wares ..... mostly magazines, and one of the guys yells ...... "hey Steve ..... this guy looks just like you!"
Sure enough they had an entire issue featuring this guy just plowing all these women and he could have been my twin!

:D:D
 
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Lt. Bob said:
haha!

That's funny. So you were pretty fast for a kid then?
:D

Once when I was on the road in the late 70's we were up in Grand Rapids and we were all just killing time during the day wandering around the city like bands do.
So we went into a **** shop and were spread out looking at the wares ..... mostly magazines, and one of the guys yells ...... "hey Steve ..... this guy looks just like you!"
Sure enough they had an entire issue featuring this guy just plowing all these women and he could have been my twin!

:D:D
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Come on, it was you in a drug induced comatose state that's why you can't remember.
Happens to us all! :D
 
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