cyrusr Posted March 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2021 2 hours ago, sne said: Ex Entombed singer LG Petrov dead at 49. Cancer Didn't know that he had cancer. Shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2021 20 minutes ago, cyrusr said: Didn't know that he had cancer. Shit Yeah, crap news. Left Hand Path is one of the greatest death metal albums of all time for me. Flawless. He was a big part of that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Actor Trevor Peacock, 89 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted March 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2021 2 hours ago, rjw63 said: Actor Trevor Peacock, 89 No no no no no no no no, yes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 2 hours ago, rjw63 said: Actor Trevor Peacock, 89 I didn't realise until recently that he was the father of Daniel Peacock (known for The Comic Strip Presents and being Mental Mickey in Only Fools) and Harry Peacock (who is Ray Purchase in Toast of London). Harry Peacock is also married to Katherine Parkinson. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2021 21 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: Ray Purchase You forgot his middle name 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 9, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2021 54 minutes ago, Designer1 said: You forgot his middle name 'Raper Chase' is bad enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Joey Benjamin: Former England, Warwickshire and Surrey bowler dies at the age of 60 Quote Former England, Warwickshire and Surrey bowler Joey Benjamin has died at the age of 60 after reportedly suffering a heart attack. Benjamin was born in St Kitts but made his name in English cricket and went on to take 387 first-class wickets in an 11-year career. His only Test came at the Oval against South Africa in 1994 when he took 4-42 in the first innings. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 10 hours ago, snowychap said: Joey Benjamin: Former England, Warwickshire and Surrey bowler dies at the age of 60 I always remember him being a key part of that stacked Surrey side of the early/mid 90s. I also remember Moody and Curtis against them in the NatWest semi in 94 at the Oval 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) Lou Ottens inventor of the cassette tape (ask your dad) has died. Edited March 11, 2021 by Seat68 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Bill Harkin - the "giza" (<-- see what i did there ?) who designed the pyramid stage at glastonbury music festival, aged 83 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11, 2021 17 hours ago, Seat68 said: Lou Ottens inventor of the cassette tape (ask your dad) has died. Really? It shocks me that it was invented by someone who is only 94. Thought they were older than that to be fair. I suppose thinking about it the technology must have been post war when computers etc came in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post choffer Posted March 11, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2021 17 hours ago, Seat68 said: Lou Ottens inventor of the cassette tape (ask your dad) has died. At least he got to C90 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 11, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 11, 2021 42 minutes ago, sidcow said: Really? It shocks me that it was invented by someone who is only 94. Thought they were older than that to be fair. I suppose thinking about it the technology must have been post war when computers etc came in. 30th August 1963. Nothing to do with Computers, designed specifically for audio playback by a Belgian arm of Phillips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 20 hours ago, Seat68 said: Lou Ottens inventor of the cassette tape (ask your dad) has died. For a gorgeous brief moment in time, I was 13 and allowed to tape the charts count down on my parent’s stereogram. Fast forward a couple of years and I’m swapping mixtapes with friends. A little further forward and Eric Ericsson, once a roadie with the Small Faces but currently a roadie with The Style Council robs the mixtape from the TSC ghetto blaster and gives it to me as a prezzy. My first car, packed full of mixtapes. I leave it at the railway station and go to work. That evening, the car has been broken in to, somebody has gone through every cassette, but thrown them in the footwell. I have a mental image of some toe rag sat in my car going ‘nope...nope...nope...’ For about 10 years, cassettes were a massive thing for me and mine. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 22 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: For a gorgeous brief moment in time, I was 13 and allowed to tape the charts count down on my parent’s stereogram. Fast forward a couple of years and I’m swapping mixtapes with friends. A little further forward and Eric Ericsson, once a roadie with the Small Faces but currently a roadie with The Style Council robs the mixtape from the TSC ghetto blaster and gives it to me as a prezzy. My first car, packed full of mixtapes. I leave it at the railway station and go to work. That evening, the car has been broken in to, somebody has gone through every cassette, but thrown them in the footwell. I have a mental image of some toe rag sat in my car going ‘nope...nope...nope...’ For about 10 years, cassettes were a massive thing for me and mine. I had so many tapes. It ran into the hundreds, legit releases, mixtapes, recordings of John Peel and a plethora of day glo bootlegs. Years back there was a realisation that they were taking up too much room and as the reault of a car boot sale, someone in Telford has a 1992 recording of the festive 50 and the Beats International album, let them eat bingo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 11, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Seat68 said: I had so many tapes. It ran into the hundreds, legit releases, mixtapes, recordings of John Peel and a plethora of day glo bootlegs. Years back there was a realisation that they were taking up too much room and as the reault of a car boot sale, someone in Telford has a 1992 recording of the festive 50 and the Beats International album, let them eat bingo. Hipsters pay a fortune for that shit now Like you the one thing I have got rid of in my music collection is the cassettes, i think I just binned them to be perfectly honest. Didn't have many legit purchases, that was always vinyl then CD but bootlegs and mixtapes and taped radio shows, I had shit loads 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11, 2021 I've still got all my cassette tapes in the loft. Mainly home made ones taping my own records for playing on the Walkman and friends stuff I didnt want to actually buy. I have got this though: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 11, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11, 2021 Remember when tape to tape fast dubbing was the best invention in the world ever? Also my boombox had a feature where you could fast forward the song you were listening to and it would start normal playback at the end of the song ready for the next one. That seemed like witchcraft. I expect I used it an awful lot on my Hits 4 tape looking at the track list. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Goldie Lookin’ Chain. The voice of a generation... You feel it pumping and it's in your face You feel it pumping and it's in your face You feel it pumping and it's in your face I've got a 3-D Super Woofer, now turn up the bass All I ever wanted at the age of nine Was a cassette player that was mine To play my rap tapes to all my mates So for Christmas and birthdays I'd waits and waits Then one day, you know what I was given Off my cousin who was run over and killed up in Llanishen A Super Woofer of the 3-D kind Double cassette and it was all my mine Sometimes I think they were the best days Sometimes I think they were the best days Sometimes I think they were the best days When I'd spend my time pressing rewind and plays 3-D Super Woofer, double cassette Those are the days I will never forget 3-D Super Woofer, auto reverse That was the chorus, now back to the verse Clap your hands everybody if you've got what it takes Cos here's the boombox and these are the tapes Maxell, Sony, TDK, I keep them in a box and never throw them away Stop, play, pause, rewind I turn it up loud when I'm out of my mind So **** big that it can't be stolen Like a medical experiment your head gets swollen Tape to tape, switch high-speed dubbing Tape to tape, switch high-speed dubbing Tape to tape, switch high-speed dubbing I might stay home cos I don't go clubbing So long CD, MP3 Everywhere I go I take a tape with me Rock the boombox in the day, rock the boombox in the night If the tape goes slack then I wind it up tight Make a mix for my tape with my two turntables Then make a nice cover, write the name on the labels Like a junkie but I don't smoke rocks I can't get enough of my 3-D boombox 3-D Super Woofer, double cassette Those are the days I will never forget 3-D Super Woofer, auto reverse That was the chorus, now back to the verse Before 5:1 or cinema surround sound I got it from Dixons for a hundred pounds 3-D Super Woofer, double cassette Those are the days I will never forget Back in the day, put on 2 Live Crew Turn up the volume and the EQ Using pause to mix my tapes With my sister and her mates throwing some shapes Top deck shandy, Panda pops and Tizer Top deck shandy, Panda pops and Tizer Top deck shandy, Panda pops and Tizer Top deck shandy, Panda pops and Tizer Top deck shandy, Panda pops and Tizer Pump up the bass with your graphic equalizer Street corners, lay down the lino Bodyspins, windmills, not while you're high though Sixteen batteries, sub woofers booming Pose like the Rock Steady Crew I'm assuming Bad boy in a tracksuit with a boombox My name's Mystikal and my body rocks 3-D Super Woofer, double cassette Those are the days I will never forget 3-D Super Woofer, auto reverse That was the chorus, now back to the verse Rolling on my BMX, I look so refined Rolling on my BMX, I look so refined Rolling on my BMX, I look so refined But it chews up my tape when I press rewind Ice T on the radio on the beat But the batteries are costing me forty quid a week Bassbins with four watts of speaker With a chrome tweeter and a volume meter Pump up the bass Pump up the bass Pump up the bass Pump up the bass Pump up the bass Pump up the bass Pump up the bass with your graphic equalizer Rock the boombox in the day, rock the boombox in the night Rock the boombox in the day, rock the boombox in the night Rock the boombox in the day, rock the boombox in the night Pump up the bass with your graphic equalizer 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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