Word: phonograph
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...miles west of Milwaukee. Encouraged by his mother, he learned piano, guitar and harmonica. His curiosity led him to all sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console-radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he wired his guitar to radios stage right and left - voilà, stereo! "If you can be an engineer and a musician," he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch...
...MP3s and illegally downloaded music. Is this a real threat, or are people just worried about nothing? Every time these technological advances came along, the people invested in the music business at the time took it as a threat to their livelihoods. If you had a phonograph player in your house, why would you ever go outside of your house to listen to live music again? In the 1980s the music industry took out full-page ads in Billboard and other magazines saying, "Home taping is killing music." They thought that because people had cassette tapes, they would just tape...
...Amuse-confuse was in the air in the late ?70s and early ?80s. In the comedy clubs, performers like Albert Brooks, Andy Kaufman, Harry Shearer and Art Metrano were blazing the conceptual trail of "post-funny comedy." Kaufman would play the Mighty Mouse theme on an old phonograph, or read long passages from The Great Gatsby, or assume the guise of obnoxious Tony Clifton, all to the discomfort of an audience who might have come to hear jokes. Metrano donned a tux and sang, endlessly, the old razzmatazz "Fine and Dandy," but only the notes...
...much pot,” Adams’ playing was nothing short of graceful. That’s not to say, of course, that silly shenanigans were in short supply. Carefully poised between center stage and Adams’ guitar amplifier was a tweed-clad phonograph, which he called upon several times during the evening to play a vinyl of Madonna’s “Material Girl.” “Come on Boston!” Adams implored: “Don’t you like Madonna? She can throw plates...
DIED. JOSEPH STEINER, 95, co-founder of Kenner toys, producer of such hits as Play-Doh, the Easy-Bake Oven and the Close 'N Play Phonograph; near Cincinnati, Ohio. Steiner stumbled upon the idea for his 1947 Bubble Rocket while researching soap bubbles...