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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Full Tilt Boogie saying Hi!Well hello there!
Looks like I know a few of you guys already - Bob, Welshie and a few others. The place looks interesting - think I'll go and take a look around and get a feel for the place. See you on the boards guys! 
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| Mad Welshie |
Hey Bren. Good to see you here. Welcome to FTS. There are some really good guys here. Especially Xcotty.
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| eloise |
Hello and welcome
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| Sindygirl |
Hello, I dont know you, yet! | ||||
| Full Tilt Boogie |
Cheers Emma, Eloise & Sindygirl 
Thanks for the welcome! |
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| Xcotty |
Welcome to the board Full Tilt, loving your username. 
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Cheers Xcotty - I nicked it from a review of a 1969 Led Zeppelin concert (not that I was at it, as I was only 4 at the time  ).
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| Xcotty |
I like it, it's got a good ring to it pal.
Hope you enjoy this place, it can be good fun. There's a lot of good folk here, oh, and BoB. 
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| Xcotty |
Just realized your the same age as me bud.
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Yes, it's certainly a lively board with (thankfully) a broad range of banter and humour! Just my cup o'buckie!
Aye, a child of '65 - a rather good vintage so I'm told
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| Xcotty |
A good vintage indeed.
You will have gone through the same musical years as me. I was just the right age to catch the tail end of punk, then onto the New Romantics, into the Techno/New age kind of thing. I loved the 80's, loads of brilliant music, that no-one nowadays, seems to be able to capture. I was even a fan of Sigue Sigue Sputnik..... But then I always did have very strange taste in music.
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
I'd say varied and eclectic rather than strange - mind you, given the times we came up, you had no option, as the sheer volume and choice of acts/bands was stunning. | ||||
| Xcotty |
Definately, more varation than now right enough.
I'm not sure about the recent reformations, and revivals. Some things were too good, to try to reinact, I reckon. It's a bit odd, seeing some of those older folk, trying to recapture the youth. I don't blame them for trying though. But some bands, should just be remember how they were.
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Funny, we've a thread on this very subject - 80s bands reunions 'Good or bad?' on my site. It brings out some rather pointed comments too, as you can imagine. | ||||
| Xcotty |
Great minds and all that Full Tilt.
I have to shoot off now, I'm up at 5am. Very good to meet you, have a good night young fella. 
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Nay prob's mate - sleep well and see you on the boards! |
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| BoB |
Hi Bren.
80s!! There were bands in the 80s? Name one I would like! I thought the 80s were dull and the 90s bland. But I have weird tasts
OK, there was Ultravox 
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Speaking of Ultravox Bob, they've just announced a reunion and tour! For my own preferences, I'm a 60s and 70s music kinda guy - Floyd, Zeppelin, Genesis et al. |
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| BoB |
Me also.
Liked the SuperGroups of the late 60s early to mid 70s. Music has yet to be so good
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| Perisphere |
Welcome FTB! I'm a '64 model so to speak, born the month The Beatles first visited the US. My late parents were born in the early 1920s so I also have an appreciation of some of the best of what hit by WW II and afterward.
Good having you here! |
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Cheers Peri!
Aye, my folks were born in the 20s too, I grew up with a raft of 78s littering the place
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| WACOlives |
Hullo Boogs...welcome..
thank christ you got to mention 78's !! until then I felt too old to post 
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Mamas don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies |
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| Sidsnotwasere |
Yo Boogie Wooogieeeeeee.
At long last,a guy wi guid taste,like BoB tae. |
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Yer never too old WACO mate
Wish I still had those 78s now, I'd be sitting on a gold mine 
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| Sidsnotwasere |
Waco,i canny remember if i posted this before http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kennethdrury/price-guide.htm
it's quite useful for checking on record/cd prices. I have had loads of records i sold at the old Wishaw Market,donkeys years ago that i wud be a rich man if i thought tae keep hold of even afew of them. Sex Pistols,Elvis,Jimi,U2,Bob Dylan,Led Zep,too many tae name,also had stacks of pic disks too,Beatles,Blondie,Elvis, etc etc. |
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Cheers Sid, nice link! | ||||
| WACOlives |
Thanks Sid..will browse it later.
My 78's go back to early/mid 50's...................... Through a record shop pal, I used to get Everlies, John cash, Ricky Nelson etc before any were released here. In them days the record companies used to ban U>S> recordings and get British artists to cover them so they could make more money. A classic that stands out in my memory was when they got Jim Dale to cover Elvis's ALL SHOOK UP !!
................................................................................... You're right, I'm left, she's gone |
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| eloise |
Oh my goodness what an era, I was born in 1953 and when my eldest brother returned from National Service in Germany, he bought a Dansett (I think it was ) record player, I spent so many happy hours with him listening to The Everlies, Fats Domino etc, those were the days
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| Silverfox |
Snap - a fellow 1953er here. Twas an excellent year.
I so longed for a Dansette, and never got one. 
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| Perisphere |
Here's a 1954 78 from my collection I doubt anyone in the UK covered! 
Just for a giggle, here's an oldie for you from '98--1898, that is!
PS--You can click on the pictures to listen to them! |
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| eloise |
You know I often sit and think living through the 50s and 60s, we were so lucky, "Happy Days" indeed,and how innocent we were, my how things have changed, and I cannot say with hand on heart "for the better"
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| Silverfox |
You're right Eloise. Things were so much simpler then, people cared for each other, there was far less violence, kids could play in the street, and we were all poor - but poor together so we didn't even realise until we were older. The pace was slower, and we weren't all flogged to death at work. | ||||
| eloise |
I was so lucky, had a really happy childhood, my Dad was a Coal Merchant, there were 6 of us, 3 boys and 3 girls,my Mum used to pack us off over the fields to play with picnics in the Summer Holidays, we would not go home till we were hungry, no one worried where you were, where did it all go wrong ?? |
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| Sidsnotwasere |
One thing i always remember about back then,summer lasted from March tae September,and you cud miss it for all the smoke chimneys,wi coal and brickets.
Winter was from October tae February,and ye cud put yer fingers on the windae frames (inside yer hoose) and it wud stick like glue tae it. |
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| Mad Welshie |
Thats very true. A very well known fact. 
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| WACOlives |
Memories,memories........................
I had a RED Dansette ! --------------------------------------------------------- La jour ou la pluie viendra |
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| eloise |
OMG so was his, they were brilliant, I have so many really happy memories, listening in while Peter tamed his Teddy Boy Quiff, oh such happy times........ |
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| Full Tilt Boogie |
Can I just add here that - contrary to Sidsnot's delusions - I am not, and never have been, Lord Blackadder?
The poor lad's under the impression that I am. Wake up Sid. |
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| BoB |
This night be of interest to some here.
I had an old mini one that I used for playing old scratched 45s that I picked up from second hand shops and markets. It had two valves that after an hour of playing could make toast and did burn the material above the valves in the end. Had to replace resistors every now and again as it ate them, but it kept going intil I could no longer get styli for it. I even converted it to stereo by adding another amp form another player and changing to a stereo catridge, but the heat that came out of it after that could heat the room. It worked ok though after adding external speakers through an isolation 1:1 transformer on each channel
Dansette |
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| eloise |
Oh Bob thanks for that, like I already said such happy memeories have been invoked today 
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| Xcotty |
I can vouch for Full Tilt, as I have access to all ip's.
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| irritateddata |
I'm a 50s kid too. Aaaaah those were the days, proper winters, if the school bus couldnt make it you had to WALK through the drifts, no excuses accepted for not getting there! Getting kicked oot the house in summer to play all day miles away if we wanted in fields and woods and old deserted buildings, as long as we were back by teatime. The friendships made, the scuffles the bets the blood brother wrist thing, sharing chewing gum, if we got thirsty on our adventures, knocking on a door for water and a biscuit if they were really nice. Scrumping in the orchards, climbing the trees and jumping from one to another. Playing chicken on the railway tracks...eek (parents never knew till years later). If you didnt come back with cuts and scrapes it was a pretty uneventful day. Breaking a limb gave you hero status. The only vaccinations I remember were for tb, whooping cough and tetanus. Mumps measles chickenpox you went round to your mates house to catch it! You ate like a horse anything you liked but stayed fit cos you were never still, always out. And if there was a dog in the family they always came with you too. |
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| Bluemoon |
Something wrong with that ?
Actually I don't like to see all these old yins making a fool of themselves. I want to remember it the way it was |
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| eloise |
Did you grow up in the outskirts of Manchester by any chance, cos that is exactly my childhood !!! |
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| Sidsnotwasere |
Those were the days indeed,J,everything you stated was the way it was,and folk respected yin another tae. Nae loud music until 4 AM,lights out at 11 bells at the latest,and people had respect for their friendly neighbourhood copper too. I noticed in this morns papers that the police officer involved,had a suspected heart attack,i hope he's okay tbh,but i think he probably wishes he cud turn the clock back. |
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| Perisphere |
Was that moulded plastic above the valves, or a plastic or leatherette covering on the panel that became discoloured from the heat? I'm curious. It's a shame how some designers seemed to forget that late in the game just how hot valves could get. Here's a 1947 design that gets insanely hot after it's been on an hour or so. It has four valves; they're in a row under the flat top section just above the 'W' logo on the sloped part. This thing can overheat even when the chassis is out of its wooden case! 
Even some television sets were prone to heat-related troubles and failures, particularly such service technicians' nightmares as the Philco Predicta range introduced in the late 1950s, which, it is said, often required servicing three or four times a year due to reliability issues (heat-induced). 
The troubles with them eventually led to Philco going bankrupt in 1962. |
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| Xcotty |
Wow Mr P, great pix, I like em pal.
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| Perisphere |
Thanks! Pulled the telly pic off a site, the wire recorder is Dad's wee beastie (over 60 years old and still functional). | ||||
| eloise |
They made things to last in those days Peri, it's all a throw away society now, don't set me off .........
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| Perisphere |
Agreed. All too often, the newer stuff can not be economically repaired; it's not substantially more expensive to simply replace something that's gone pear-shaped now. The older stuff was made to hold up well AND be easily and economically repaired in the freak event something should go wrong inside. Or can be readily modified and fitted with the best of today's componentry to greatly improve performance. (I've done lots of the latter to much of my audio gear, much of which dates from the late 1950s to c.1985.) | ||||
| Silverfox |
When the horizontal hold went, you had to give the telly a good solid thump on the right hand side - worked every time.
This looked like our one - circa 1957. 
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| Perisphere |
Say it with me: LOOSE SOLDER JOINT! Peavey guitar and bass amplifiers are (or at least were) notorious for them. They'd produce a similar behaviour to what you describe. Plays for a while, then sound gets noisy or intermittent....knock hell out of the amp, it works fine again for a few minutes, lather/rinse/repeat.... I lost count of all the Peaveys I had to do a shotgun resolder job on when I lived in Texas. That's where I'd disassemble an amp, take a soldering iron and a big spool of solder, and touch up every solder joint on every circuit board in it. (This sorted 99% of them!)
This phenomenon was generally due to their mass-production manufacturing techniques, specifically the use of something called 'wave soldering'. This is a means of making hundreds, or even thousands, of solder joins simultaneously, accomplished by dunking a stuffed circuit board (i.e. one with all the capacitors, resistors and other components already mounted and in their places on it) in a vat of molten solder for a number of seconds. Done too quickly (gotta make those quotas for number of products made!) you get products that may work well at first, but will develop problems in the field due to weak joins. |
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| eloise |
I remember we had a huge BOSCH fridge at home in Manchester, when I was 14 we moved to Somerset and my Mum gave the fridge away and had all new appliances in the new house (she regretted that act soon enough!!)
But The Bosch fridge is still in use and I am 55 now so just goes to show !! |
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| Perisphere |
No doubt. I remember Granny's refrigerator (a Frigidaire) going out in 1979 after an electrical storm where a lightning spark on the mains ruined it; it had been in the house and running since 1948 or 1949. If there hadn't been that storm, no telling how much longer it would have still operated! | ||||
| Sidsnotwasere |
Why on earth wud anyone ever want tae leave Somerset,beautiful place to live. |
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| sissy |
Welcome Boogie.
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| Xcotty |
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| Silverfox |
I shouldn't laugh, but ...
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| Perisphere |
He is posting over on Scotschat again. | ||||