Loggins & Messina

[boputnam]

Just enjoyed Night One of this great tour. Some fun.

The band is really invigorated while humble - whatever missed queues occured, were enjoyed laughingly by band and audience and will fade as the tour ages. This a wonderful troupe of seasoned musicians with incredible talent, having a GREAT time and very contagious.

Night One was moved indoors due to a rehearsal schedule that was impacted be unseasonal thundershowers. But, the show was well rehearsed, so the indoor compromise was understood.

Both FOH and Monitor World were driven by PM1D's. Mains were flown VerTec's with VRX-series center-fills. Crown I-Tech in the racks. Very, very clean. Monitor sidefills were VRX932LA's double-stacked atop VRX718S subs (x2). Interesting combo. I think the wedges were the SRX715's but I'm not sure. They were JBL's but larger than the SRX712M's. OSA provided FOH and MW. Incredible gear.

Messina's Strat was through THREE Fender Bassman's, side-by-side-by-side. The two outer amps were wet; center was dry. Tone was amazing.

Go see this tour. Especially the outdoor venues - obviously.
Some fun. :applaud:

[Alex Lancaster]

:) Hi Bo:


Could You pls explain what is:

FOH
OSA
MW
Wet amp?

Thanks.

[Gary C.]

FOH=Front Of House,I believe.
Wet amp-probably overdriven.
Dry amp-probably clean,no overdriven tones.

[boputnam]

Hey, Alex...

Good call, Gary.

FOH is Front of House. The desk at center of audience.
OSA is On Stage Audio, the contractor for the tour. Really nice folks, all around. Very upbeat.
Wet is FX. Two of the Bassman were affected by his pedals; the center remained dry. Wonderful tone control. A treat to hear Messina that way. They even did You Better Think Twice (Poco)!!
MW is Monitor World, the console for the artists, off side stage.

How's the boy's band, Alex??

[Alex Lancaster]

:) Thanks, I wasn´t sure; Bo, Alex Jr. was here all day making cables and everything is halfway there, I will put the complete CD as soon as there´s more development, He and buddies are trying to do too many things IMO; We´ll see.

[Audiobeer]

I hadn't heard them guys for some time. I finaly broke the seal open I had on a CD that was 30 + years old for a listen. It was great to hear again!

[louped garouv]

I finaly broke the seal open I had on a CD that was 30 + years


:blink: Been fishin' lately???





:D

[louped garouv]

The Digital Compact Disc




The digital compact disc, now commonplace in stereos and computers, was invented in the late 1960s by James T. Russell.

Russell was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1931. At age six, he invented a remote-control battleship, with a storage chamber for his lunch. Russell went on to earn a BA in Physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. Afterward, he went to work as a Physicist in General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington.

At GE, Russell initiated many experimental instrumentation projects. He was among the first to use a color TV screen and keyboard as the sole interface between computer and operator; and he designed and built the first electron beam welder. In 1965, when Columbus, Ohio - based Battelle Memorial Institute opened its Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Washington, Russell joined the effort as Senior Scientist. He already knew what avenue of research he wanted to pursue.

Russell was an avid music listener. Like many audiophiles of the time, he was continually frustrated by the wear and tear suffered by his vinyl phonograph records. He was also unsatisfied with their sound quality: his experimental improvements included using a cactus needle as a stylus. Alone at home on a Saturday afternoon, Russell began to sketch out a better music recording system --- and was inspired with a truly revolutionary idea.

Russell envisioned a system that would record and replay sounds without physical contact between its parts; and he saw that the best way to achieve such a system was to use light. Russell was familiar with digital data recording, in punch card or magnetic tape form. He saw that if he could represent the the binary 0 and 1 with dark and light, a device could read sounds or indeed any information at all without ever wearing out. If he could make the binary code compact enough, Russell saw that he could store not only symphonies, but entire encyclopedias on a small piece of film.

Battelle let Russell pursue the project, and after years of work, Russell succeeded in inventing the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system (patented in 1970). He had found a way to record onto a photosensitive platter in tiny "bits" of light and dark, each one micron in diameter; a laser read the binary patterns, and a computer converted the data into an electronic signal --- which it was then comparatively simple to convert into an audible or visible transmission.

This was the first compact disc. Although Russell had once envisioned 3x5-inch stereo records that would fit in a shirt pocket and a video record that would be about the size of a punch card, the final product imitated the phonographic disc which had been its inspiration. Through the 1970s, Russell continued to refine the CD-ROM, adapting it to any form of data. Like many ideas far ahead of their time, the CD-ROM found few interested investors at first; but eventually, Sony and other audio companies realized the implications and purchased licenses.

By 1985, Russell had earned 26 patents for CD-ROM technology. He then founded his own consulting firm, where he has continued to create and patent improvements in optical storage systems, along with bar code scanners, liquid crystal shutters, and other industrial optical instruments. His most revolutionary recent invention is a high-speed optical data recorder / player that has no moving parts. Russell earned another 11 patents for this "Optical Random Access Memory" device, which is currently being refined for the market.

James T. Russell has many interests beyond optical data devices. In fact, he has claimed, "I've got hundreds of ideas stacked up --- many of them worth more than the compact disc. But I haven't been able to work on them." Digital engineers and consumers alike will be lucky if he does find the time.

[Audiobeer]

Actualy I was looking for one of thier CDs on Ebay a year or so back and that one came up. Still in the original plastic. I paid about $30 for it but it was worth it just to have it in a few days. No I'm not fishing to sell it because there aren't that many people clammering for a Loggins & Messina CD. It's not a Gold High Fidelity CD anyway. But if you have an Album with flawless grooves I will trade straight up! :D

[Lancer]

The digital compact disc, now commonplace in stereos and computers, was invented in the late 1960s by James T. Russell. Too bad he also didn't invent what the hell to do with the damn things after they outlived their usefulness (they look stupid as coasters in countless decorative surroundings). If he was REALLY smart he would have made them out of Miracle Grow, or something similar, that could be tossed into the garden after the software on them was obsolete. :p