Thursday, December 20, 2007

WHO tour pics... begins here.

I have so many pics from around the world. Most of them wouldn't mean much to anyone but me and our bus-family. But I can share some of the generally interesting ones here, and will not run out for about 8 years...








A pile of Roger's BROKEN mics from the shows...













I was hoping this would be part of our stage set..... alas, no.















Our rehearsal stage... maybe THIS will be our stage set!? Alas, no again..... it was for Sound of Music or something.







But this WAS the hotel we stayed at during rehearsal. Seriously...





....more to come... remind me!

Friday, November 9, 2007

VINTAGE Computer Fair !!! Mountain View, CA

This was a weird and fun thing I got in the middle of...

My old CON BRIO synthesizer has never worked in the 11-12 years I've had it. I finally found an "old computer expert" up near San Jose, and he was intrigued to help me fix it. (Inside it's basically 5 computers from 1980). We were hoping to get it ready for his annual "Vintage Computer Fair" a few weeks later...

On the way, I discovered one of the original inventors lived nearby. He gave me his own CON BRIO (now I have two of the four built) to help the project along. We finally got his working with some donations from my machine.

Off to the show... (you can click on the pics and they will get bigger)





The two CON BRIO Synthesizers, side by side. First time one of them has made a sound in over 20 years... my old one on the left, new one (running) on the right.




OLD computers? Yes. You know the Apple II, very famous. But this is the Apple ("Apple 1", but they didn't have numbers before the "II", so just really The Apple.) But more than that, it IS the very first one ever made - #1. In those days, you bought it like this and added your own power and keyboard and TV screen. More on screens later...






This LINC was the first "personal computer" made for one person, not a company or university. The original inventors took three old ones and got one working one as a result! 1962 LINC, big overall winner at the show!







This table was called "The History of Laptops". Exciting, the lines were long!








I think this is the secret new Mac Ibook for next year!




SLICK !!!! But what does it.... uh.... do?








This guy built a computer out of Erector sets and gears. It actually WORKED and did plotting of differential equations and sine waves etc.... popular.








It could have been called "SCREEN CITY" there in the building. Awesome screens all around!






This one NOT so productive a screen!










I liked this little screen guy so much I pondered it (as did someone else) to see what we MIGHT wanna hook it up to...






But were there nerds, or geeks there, you say? None, no. Sorry, not at a vintage computer fair!



Q-Bert shirt and Commodore PET computer shirts...







"I Adore My (Commodore) 64" shirt!







Glasses, pocket protector with pens/pencils, and his
OFFICIAL Star Trek laminate Captain's badge!









Weird - Commodore PET (like in the shirt above)







This is the COOOOLEST computer ever made.
OK, the name does it, but ignore that and then see how
beautiful the design is. Wow...









And back to our own - a beauty. It was a big hit and won awards for "Most Obscure" (hard to beat this) and for "People's Choice" (tied for first with the Erector Set guy!)

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

VW Wagon meet, Hannover Germany!

We were called out to work with The Who again, a "one off" show in Hannover. Volkwagen were celebrating the 60th Anniversary or the VW van, or wagon, or "Bulli" as they all call it. Here are some of the sights....


Some BEAUTIFUL vans here, especially these pre-70s ones with the V-front.















This one simply carved from wood, actual size...


Loved this one - a fullsize fiberglass replica on the roof-rack of his original!




Streeeeetch Limo Bulli

AmbuBulli! Nice inside:



Nice outside...



VERY classy way to carry your luggage....






My favorite, and the crowd's too: Someone has antiqued their VW into a Huck Finn-style "wooden" riverboat!




This is a LOT of cars.
There is a LOT of parking there.
There are SPACES for parking in this PARK for CARS.




HOT! But I would not feel as safe if THIS fire engine showed up...




And this church was in the middle of Hannover City... I don't want to know. Yikes....












Monday, November 5, 2007

PEOPLE !


Testing 1,2... a new web log!

OK- Inspired by friends' discussion of online web logs, I decided this would be an easy way to share photos I've taken recently, without having to resort to mass/custom emails and photo archives. Maybe I will make some new friends (yet don't need any new ones, as the old ones still work fine).

This is mostly for pics - and "Images" was taken, so I am using the far more meaningful "IMAGES" by Tyrone Greene title. I bet you know it...

I will not write about the time I was in the KISS movie "Phantom of the Park", or the time my pet Degu bit right thru my hand, the Christian guy in the Hendrix shirt! No - those are stories FROM my friends' own web logs that inspired this; I will fake my own here.

BTW - they are actually not "BLOGs", they are Web Logs, and if you don't have time in your life to SAY "web log" you shouldn't be messing around here - nothing here has value.


BK