From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #247 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, October 12 2000 Volume 05 : Number 247 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re:Alloy: Dolby and Personal History ["Ian Gifford" Subject: re:Alloy: Dolby and Personal History Hmmmmmmmmm let's see, My strongest Dolby Memory is the day that I bought Aliens Ate My Buick. I got it at "Discus" in a little mall in Sarnia. I bought it on tape and immediately popped it into my walkman. As I cycled the few miles home, I listened to the tape front to back for the entire ride. I believe that I made it home in record time that day!! I was so excited when I got home that I played the tape twice more, this was the first time that I really took a look at an album for production values. The next was "The The-Mind Bomb" and "PeterMurphy- Deep" but all were compared to "Aliens..." (and often still are in one way or another) Of course that is not my first Dolby moment but I have to tell you that I have had to buy two other copies of that Cassette since that first day. The third is still going strong. I am glad to see so many new members either coming in or being invited. I have a challenge that I would like to pose to all of you new and less new ... .. If you could put together a questionaire (let's say..... 20 questions??) for TMDR, which questions should be on there? Any ideas?? Peace, Ian Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 20:53:23 -0700 From: robb & tara Subject: Alloy: Dolby and Personal History Okay, here's my first post. What are your earliest TMDR memories? Or just strong ones? Several come to my memory personally, which will date me somewhat. - - - Walking thru Kmart, school shopping with the folks, but hanging around the electronics section (boomboxes/tapeplayers were just coming in vogue). All the radios were tuned in to whatever station were playing, yup, Blinded By... - - - A friend let me borrow his tape of "The Flat Earth" in '83 (or was it 84? my cd is at work right now...). He almost didn't get it back. Many games of Monoploy were played to that tape, or Atari 2600 games... - - - Back in my geekier days, I had an Atari 800 (I think it was, if not a 1200). I got those Atari-specific magazines with programs written in BASIC you had to spend 40 minutes typing in by hand. One was a mono-synth program, I recall clearly. You used the QWERTY keyboard to play the notes. I spent, much to my mom's discomfort, at least three hours playing the bassline right along on the Atari, to "Windpower". I must say, it was a very remarkable facsimile of that bass patch (the Atari had a three-voice synthesis engine; Dolby's Moog had two). Or did he use the PPG for that part? - - - Girlfriends & Dolby's slow songs. Need I say more? - - - I am personally obsessing (that's an on-going action verb, over time) with "Screen Kiss." Someday I will actually learn how to play it; I'm working on a version for the midi-fied Chapman Stick right now. - - - Spent most of the summer of 88 obsessed with the 'Aliens' cd. Wheeeeeee. Never did get to take that 18-hour drive to catch his eastern-most date of that tour, which I regret to this day. - - - Speaking of regrets, he did a mini one-man tour through colleges, explaining the whole music-on-computers thing. I found out about it the day after the event. It was a 35-minute drive for me. Is it not in the stars? - - - From 1992-1999, I was trying to find a way to word a letter to Mr. D., asking if he had any of his synth patches (sounds) from his old or present Roland synths he could share, if he could find it in his generous heart... too late, sold 3 of the four Rolands. Watch, he'll read this, and the sysex data will show up in my e-mailbox, just my luck... well, then I'll have to go buy them again (pssst, JX-10/MKS-70, JX8P, Juno-1...) - - - My son grew up from birth hearing (and watching the video of) Gate's to the Mind's Eye. Not Disney, like other kids. We have him (Finnean) call us by our first names, not 'mommy' and 'daddy,' I think it will garner more respect for us from him when he matures. So whether you realize it or not, Mr. Dolby, you have an active role in a massive one-child social experiment. Results will be in in 12 years or so. YOUR TURN! ========== Well, that's a start. It seems the Alloy community has provided me with another reason to spend several hours in front of the monitior, plus I don't have to drop any money at the bookstore for a while. Wheeee, my internet subscription is justified again! I have spent more time on eBay then I care to enumerate trying to win a copy of the "Gothic" soundtrack. I've got $30 right here for a legit copy, if anyone's offering! (But only if my boss... er, better half says it's okay.) I promise to Beatnik-ify my next Mac, when I get one that's fast enough to tackle it solidly (my clone doesn't like to play nice with external call-ups, i.e. realaudio files, etc.). Sorry! But when I do, look out... Any response out there? Talk soon! ~robb ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #247 ***************************