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...Ling ("I am to religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats while Ling read from the works of Judas Priest. Not long after, the women heard from RIAA President Stanley Gortikov. He announced that record companies would, at their own discretion, put warning labels on certain albums: PARENTAL GUIDANCE--EXPLICIT LYRICS...
...pilot light. On the broad panel-set roughly equidistant from two woofered and tweetered speaker assemblies in massive cabinets-is an array of switches, dials and knobs. This is not the cockpit of the X-15; it is a modern stereophonic rig. Tuner off. Amplifier on. Selector switch on RIAA. All niters out. Left volume control on #5. Right volume control on #5. Turntable spinning at 33⅓ r.p.m. A metal arm glides with feathery softness over the record. For the moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from a tangle of wire punched into the back of the amplifier...