Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last few years I've spent most--really, I should say all--of my meager earnings on listening to rock 'n roll. So I've got a state-of-the-art stereo system with speakers that give a wall-of-sound image and a vast, eclectic record collection that would put WHRB to shame (I should know, I hear it on my telephone all the time...
People find this surprising. They think that a true stereophile should have the latest, cleanest musical mechanisms. But, as Joan Jett once said, I love rock'n roll, not its machinery. And defects and all, I like everything about L.P.'s. Everything. Scratches, warps, pressing the repeat button and playing the same side of an album all night. Everything...
...that is quite a different matter. Because music, particularly rock'n roll, is meant to be listened to on records. It's meant to have that slightly distorted sound that you get when there's a bit of lint on the needle. It's meant to sound scratchy when you're listening to that Pink Floyd album you last played when you were stoned and accidentally dropped on the floor in trying to flip it over. (If you couldn't have experiences like this, what would be the point in getting stoned and making spastic attempts to function normally...
...earth is constantly moving underfoot. Its surface, cracked like ancient pottery, is broken into 15 large pieces. These pieces of crust, called plates, restlessly roam about, driven by plumes of molten rock that roil up from the planet's superheated core. Many of the world's largest earthquakes occur at the boundaries of such plates. The San Andreas fault system divides the Pacific plate and the North American plate, which grind past each other at the pace of 2 in. a year. But this movement of the plates is not uniform. Along fault zones the plates tend to become "locked...
...conducting an experiment that they hope will open the door to a new era of earthquake prediction. Along a 20-mile section of the San Andreas, researchers have sunk strain gauges up to 1,000 ft. deep into the earth and laced the surface with "creep meters" that measure rock movement. "We're listening to the heartbeat of this section of the fault very, very closely," says the Geological Survey's Thatcher. The Parkfield section of the San Andreas is unusual in that it is the Old Faithful of earthquake zones, generating moderate tremors every 20 to 27 years...