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 This page is under construction, some of the links are real. Hello Testing 1...2...3...Testing. This is a place to indulge some of my silly preoccupation's. SO THERE! Images relating to travel, radio ( as N3JLD ), eccentric music, Jazz, Blues, Folk, R & R, Satire ( Sartre ? ) and Spoken Word artist links are featured. Nothing is for sale. Nothing is real. Close cover before striking. My hovercraft is full of eels. He's no fun he fell right over. Not responsible for lost, or stolen articles. Do not remove tag under penalty of law. Contents under pressure. No animals were harmed during the production of this web site. Actual mileage may vary. Don't worry about the dead links, they can't hurt you.

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This is an American carbon mic (right). Assistance identifying this model would be appreciated, as well as information about American Microphone formerly of Pasedena / LA California.
Below is the RCA 44BX. The 44BX is a highly sought after mic as it has been associated with broadcasting and recording since the 1930's, even today it's considered a fine sounding instrument.  If you happen upon this mic, in any condition, let me know.  In 1972, working at a local AM/FM radio station, I found in back of the AM transmitter room a box of  otherwise undisguised junk, including this classic 44BX. The mic was long out of service; having been vandalized by a DJ in a drunken rage. The station manager exchanged this box of junk for some off -the- record services. The serial number indicates that this mic was used originally by a CBS station, most probably WTOP / WJSV. It has been fully and artfully restored by ENAK MICROPHONE REPAIR @ 856-589-6186.

Clarence Kane
Enak Microphone Repair
420 Carrew Avenue
Pittman, NJ 08071
http://enakmic.com

Voice: (856) 589-6186

Contact: Clarence Kane (former RCA microphone technician)

Repair and refurbishment of RCA ribbon microphones.

 
(Note: I.R.S. This is a work of fiction, I can't remember anything I did before 1985.) 

'Smore Stuff
 Pictures of XTC , the witty band from Swindon, UK. A boatload of wonderful tunes can be found via the OFFICIAL site XTC Here
 Travel Pix been there, done that.
 Da Family Woof, Meow.....
 Splonk and Dweedle are overjoyed by the birth of their second child,
 Tumor.

This was our last night on the town. It had been an
exciting week visiting family, being tourists and
hunting what's left of the old Hollywood. I don't
remember how I learned of the Lavay Smith gig at The
Derby, but we were there in Los Feliz and the night
was electric. Cindy, Peg and I at the same kidney
shaped bar where Joan Crawford observed, "People have
to drink somewhere. Why not here?", so we did, don't
argue with Mommy Dearest as Mildred Pierce.  The
drinks and service were good, and not too overpriced,
this place is affordable and fun, filled with Lindy
Hoppers in forties drag and regulars. The Derby is a
100-by-35 foot room lined on one wall with six private
booths hung with burgundy velvet curtains. Near the
entrance is a heavy 1930 Brunswick pool table.
Standing by the pool table was Peter Bonerz, having
just finished filming the bio pic "Man on the Moon",
and dancing with a tall, blond lady was the short,
well dressed Robert Wise sporting a pony tail. Lavay
Smith and her eight-piece band are a blast, the band
swings to tasty charts zoot suitable for dancing or
gawking, I'm a gawker. Lavay is mesmerizing as a sexy
film noir cross between Anita O' Day and Bette Page...
Hubba Hubba!   

Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers are one of the top swing and jump blues bands in the country. The sultry vocals of chanteuse Lavay Smith, and an all star 8-piece band.

Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks

Purveyors of "Folk Noir", available on Surfdog, Sony, MCA and Rhino

Swing, country, Jump Blues and folk and Dan's razor

sharp wit...Listen to the Music .......

CUNNING LINGUISTS!
OR
the attack of the fifty foot thespians

Click me, if you dare, you sniveling stoat!

  Visit Cindy's (Ms. Radiolan) Web Thing Here is Cindy hiking through Joshua Tree National Monument and Test Range.   

The Firesign Theatre .

   CD, DVD, VHS available on Rhino, Columbia/Legacy, Firesign Theatre Records, More Sugar/LodesTone Media, PBS, & Laugh.Com

 Written, Performed & Produced by THE FIRESIGN THEATRE
(PHIL AUSTIN, PETER BERGMAN, DAVID OSSMAN, PHIL
PROCTOR)

Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys

Howdy Doody
@ the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

You can send e-mail to  Mark Garland because he won't answer it.

This page originally procreated by Hugo Urvay & Iago Mein with Wetscrape Navigator Mold and Cheesy Poofs  revised using MS Frump Page and three hard boiled eggs.

This page last updated on Dismember 16, 1969.  Copyright © 2004 By Mark Garland.