From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #2 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 Friday, January 6 2006 Volume 11 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Memmmories...Dolby-related, of course! :^) [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:45:50 -0600 From: Subject: Alloy: Memmmories...Dolby-related, of course! :^) Hello dere, as my Lorikeet, Chedder, would say. :^) I've been reading the voluminous archives of Alloy, and of course marvelling at the intelligence and musical knowledge of you guys, :^) and I read something about how Thomas got his nickname of "Dolby" as a teenager, when a friend or two read the brand name of the tape-recorder he was forever fiddling around with. That reminded me of something: had I had more observant friends (instead of the sort of gals who were only interested in teen idols and soap operas) ;^) , my own nickname might well have been "Panasonic"!!! ;^) My Dad bought me this glossy red Panasonic tape-recorder in the early '80's as an attempt, yet again, to buy my love--we didn't get along, let's just put it that way. I wore the darned thing out, recording songs off the radio, my own ramblings about whichever boy I was in love with that week, ;^) bits of songs which I never finished, and which were royally embarrassing when I listened to those tapes years later, recordings of my friends and I hanging out, you name it. Oh yeah, and of course my pitiful attempts at imitating Dolby's genius on my own synthesizer, which my Mom bought me after I begged, pleaded and cajoled for it. Gawd, I must've spent YEARS fiddling with the settings on that thing...I had this one really awesome sound (among many, brag brag) ;^) which I called "Electric Crystal". Sigh...but then the synth [which I named "Synthia" believe it or not] :^) fell backwards off a table, which wrecked the power jack, and, after years of intermittent power and the plug being held in with string and Scotch tape, into the garbage "Synthia" went. It never occurred to me to try to get it fixed... ;^) Just thought I'd pass along my own, Dolby-related, silly memories!!! :^) Love and green tea, Kara ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #2 **************************