Ken Coker Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f184/kclx1/Mini2_02.jpg http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f184/kclx1/Mini2_01.jpg http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f184/kclx1/Mini2_03.jpg Younger readers may want to Google "discotheques" for a definition. KC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimWebber Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Hmmmmmmmmm (Sorry Tony) I do know what a discotheque is, but I am confused by those little black round things that appear scattered on the DJ's desk... They look a little large to be CDs, and surely they are not much use as plates? Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior8 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I'd completely forgotten the Autodesk - if I ever knew it existed to be honest - certainly never saw one. Interestingly at £170 the six way version was over three times the price of a Junior 8 at the time. Clearly the photographer had never been to a Discotheque, is that Brian Legge at the rehearsal position? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley R Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Hmmmm I think I've got a box full of the 2kw Dimmer modules, fitted with Australian sockets lying around in a box somewhere...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Coker Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 .... is that Brian Legge at the rehearsal position? It's certainly Francis Reid. KC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaareolai Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 I do know what a discotheque is, but I am confused by those little black round things that appear scattered on the DJ's desk...They look a little large to be CDs, and surely they are not much use as plates? For me they look like ordinary single play 45 rpm (7" vinyl disk). link to grammophone-record. Oh, I must be old...I even have a number of 78 rpm stone plates. regards Kåre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeStoddart Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 I do know what a discotheque is, but I am confused by those little black round things that appear scattered on the DJ's desk...They look a little large to be CDs, and surely they are not much use as plates? For me they look like ordinary single play 45 rpm (7" vinyl disk). link to grammophone-record. Oh, I must be old...I even have a number of 78 rpm stone plates. regards Kåre Let me assure you that Jim is "senior" enough to have been jesting when suggesting that he didn't recognise the "little black round things" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaareolai Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I do know what a discotheque is, but I am confused by those little black round things that appear scattered on the DJ's desk...They look a little large to be CDs, and surely they are not much use as plates? For me they look like ordinary single play 45 rpm (7" vinyl disk). link to grammophone-record. Oh, I must be old...I even have a number of 78 rpm stone plates. regards Kåre Let me assure you that Jim is "senior" enough to have been jesting when suggesting that he didn't recognise the "little black round things" Ahh, you got me there, of course I should have foreseen that! ;-) Strangely, I got the ability to grap some old analogue 2 preset desks some months ago, not Rank Strand though, but didn't do it, not even to keep them as souveniers on the memory shelf... Back in the 70ties I dreamed about 2 and 3-preset desks from Rank Strand, while moving one channel resistor dimmers (Junior8). The positive thing is that I feel I can appreciate the evolvement towards todays desks from the struggle of setting up scenes on preset desks. Even with sjablons. With sweat and grin while it lasted, but also with a smile in the end. It was really work, like running a winners mile. Thanks for the memorable pictures. Reagards Kåre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landy Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Hmmmmmmmmm (Sorry Tony) I do know what a discotheque is, but I am confused by those little black round things that appear scattered on the DJ's desk... They look a little large to be CDs, and surely they are not much use as plates? Jim They are analogue Laser discs, or yet to be moulded flower pots ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
springgrove Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Ken Wonderful! I hope that you are sending this to the Strand Archive. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Coker Posted September 5, 2011 Author Share Posted September 5, 2011 I hope that you are sending this to the Strand Archive. I have inherited a whole pile of Strand literature - including a 1934 Strand Catalogue and a 1938 Empire Exhibition brochure for Strand's Colour Music; these,sadly are too fragile to flat-bed scan. I might try and scan some of the more robust stuff. Oh..and a pile of Tabs and the light plots and programmes from a large number of shows at the London Palladium in the 1960s. I might well be just starting a job where all this junk might be of some use. KC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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