Art Bell

[ItsOver]

One of the things I really like about getting old is the memories of my dad buying tubes for the TV at the local grocery store.

Ha, yes.  There was always that funky smell, as well, with tubes.  All this solid state wizardry is so...so sanitary.

And turntables.  I miss fiddling with the needle and the crackle and pop.  Would I go back to one?  Nah, too lazy, and my vinyl disappeared with my 8 tracks and cassettes.

[The General]

I am still fuzzy on the leap from vacuum tubes to transistors. Seems like a quantum leap in understanding to me.

Col Philip Corso had a lot to say about that.

[aldousburbank]

It's still seems weird every time I remember that I'm waiting for Art to broadcast live!

[The General]

Ha, yes.  There was always that funky smell, as well, with tubes.  All this solid state wizardry is so...so sanitary.

And turntables.  I miss fiddling with the needle and the crackle and pop.  Would I go back to one?  Nah, too lazy, and my vinyl disappeared with my 8 tracks and cassettes.

We recently put our TV in the garage and shelved it and now we're playing lots of records for the wee toddler.  He loves it.  He dances all around and asks for more every time the record stops.  He has no idea he's enjoying yesteryear's technology.  He's just having a blast.  His favorites are Leon Redbone and Bill Haley.

[Lilith]

I agree! I'm excited Art has these new folks on!

I can't wait!!  I feel almost as excited as I did just before the first MITD was about to start!

[Catsmile]

I was telling my kids about it a few years ago when my son's 60 inch plasma went on the fritz. They just looked and nodded... those bastards are already planning my placement in an old folks hime.

Your son is old enough to remember incandescent bulbs, fluorescent lights, Cathode Ray Tube (CTR) Televisions, and Computer Monitors, right? Those are some of the last holdouts of vacuum tubes. It's not a total Solid State world, yet. Valves won't die an easy death.

I'm holding out for a Hipster version of the iPod, with glowing tubes.     

[aldousburbank]

We recently put our TV in the garage and shelved it and now we're playing lots of records for the wee toddler.  He loves it.  He dances all around and asks for more every time the record stops.  He has no idea he's enjoying yesteryear's technology.  He's just having a blast.  His favorites are Leon Redbone and Bill Haley.

This is cool!

[onan]

Your son is old enough to remember incandescent bulbs, fluorescent lights, Cathode Ray Tube (CTR) Televisions, and Computer Monitors, right? Those are some of the last holdouts of vacuum tubes. It's not a total Solid State world, yet. Valves won't die an easy death.

I'm holding out for a Hipster version of the iPod, with glowing tubes.     

Yes he is. However the concept of repairing a TV with a screwdriver is foreign to him.

[Eddie Coyle]

  His favorites are Leon Redbone and Bill Haley.

   Love the songs those dudes specifically did for Mr Belvedere and Happy Days. See, TV is good!

[Catsmile]

Yes he is. However the concept of repairing a TV with a screwdriver is foreign to him.

DUH! Everyone knows you repair faulty electronics with a hammer. The bigger the better!

[Queen]

Breath breath push push


Hear it comes.


WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

for the next 18 years ur life is over

The pain is beginning again

Lol

[jerry]

Yes he is. However the concept of repairing a TV with a screwdriver is foreign to him.

Oh my god!  That brings back memories of dad as well.  He could NEVER leave the color settings alone--always turning the three screws on the back while holding a mirror to see the colors on the screen .

[albrecht]

It's all in the data.
But a Scientist would know that...

19.5!

LPs are making a comeback, in a weird way. With the "hipsters," though I loath them. They never went totally away (punk rock, independents, and hold outs) but seem to be increasing in popularity and are now $$. Stuff you could buy at a garage or estate sale by the boxes for a few bucks are now expensive. And there even are new record players for sale. Some stuff, of course, never got super cheap (at stores) but now even things like Herb Alpert etc are going for $, I guess due to "retro" or irony?

[The General]

Oh my god!  That brings back memories of dad as well.  He could NEVER leave the color settings alone--always turning the three screws on the back while holding a mirror to see the colors on the screen .

I had one of those old tube TV's til about 15 years ago.  I did that many times.
And the dang picture would skip and skip unless you got the vertical hold juuuust right.

[Queen]

FROM ALL THE GABBLINGS except the davebots. WE WISH MV AND HIS WIFE A VARY HAPPY BIRTHDAY

now get that placenta outa here.

[The General]

   Love the songs those dudes specifically did for Mr Belvedere and Happy Days. See, TV is good!

Yeah.
The little one would point at the TV sometimes and cry until you turned it on.  We decided to just make it disappear and put the record player in it's place.  He just doesn't seem to miss the TV at all.  He does sit and watch the record go round and round sometimes though.

[jerry]

I had one of those old tube TV's til about 15 years ago.  I did that many times.
And the dang picture would skip and skip unless you got the vertical hold juuuust right.

My last tube TV was a big 25" Magnavox console type--a big piece of furniture for the time.  It was a hand me down from a friend, who also got it as a hand me down.  It finally gave up the ghost around 1991 or 92.

I gave up watching TV altogether around 2011/early 2012.  Don't even own one any more.  The kids are ok with that since they can use the pc's to watch netflix or crackle.

[lonevoice]

Ya know, MV, I haven't read the last dozen or so pages, so I've no idea if anyone has said this already. Art freaking Bell congratulated you on the birth of your daughter live on his show... it just sank in for me how big of a deal it should be for you.

I mean it's almost as great as the birth itself.... Almost.

That was so cool!  When MV's first girl was born, the name of this forum was still coastgab and Art Bell was a fond, but wistful memory.  Today the forum is named Bellgab, and the king of all radio is back on the air.  Lena is the first Bellgab baby, and Art Bell  himself congratulated MV live on the air.  It's surreal.

Now if MV would just stop skulking around the corners of the forum and let us know that Nabila and Lena are both doing well, that would be nice.

[Queen]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-bell-might-just-re-reinvent-radio-mark-lipsky

Art Bell Might Just RE-Reinvent Radio
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[Queen]

Art Bell Might Just RE-Reinvent Radio

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-bell-might-just-re-reinvent-radio-mark-lipsky?trk=prof-post

Oh u did already lmao

[The General]

Ya know, MV, I haven't read the last dozen or so pages, so I've no idea if anyone has said this already. Art freaking Bell congratulated you on the birth of your daughter live on his show... it just sank in for me how big of a deal it should be for you.

I mean it's almost as great as the birth itself.... Almost.

How did I miss that?
Was that last night?
I listened live AND on the podcast. 
I didn't hear it.

[Queen]

That was so cool!  When MV's first girl was born, the name of this forum was still coastgab and Art Bell was a fond, but wistful memory.  Today the forum is named Bellgab, and the king of all radio is back on the air.  Lena is the first Bellgab baby, and Art Bell  himself congratulated MV live on the air.  It's surreal.

Now if MV would just stop skulking around the corners of the forum and let us know that Nabila and Lena are both doing well, that would be nice.

I feel like an ass now. I should of known his wifes name lmao

[Spinner]

I didn't know his wife had the baby! That's great! And I saw NIN said it's a boy. Now he's got a boy and girl. So happy for him.

I think that MV said that it's a girl.
Any news yet? Has the little gabbling already been born?

[Queen]

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[munbeam666]

ITS A BOY!!!!!

Good for both of them!..I thought that he said they were going to have a girl...?

[Queen]

I think that MV said that it's a girl.
Any news yet? Has the little gabbling already been born?

No news yet

[Queen]

Good for both of them!..I thought that he said they were going to have a girl...?

OMG LMAO

ITS A JOKE LOL

[onan]

Good for both of them!..I thought that he said they were going to have a girl...?

Boy or girl... MV is the dad... conjecture at your leisure.

[lonevoice]

I think that MV said that it's a girl.
Any news yet? Has the little gabbling already been born?

Nabila was having a planned C section this morning, and MV has been posting here and there since this afternoon.   He already knew it was going to be a girl, and they had already named her Lena.

I hope someone can rip the mp3 of Art's well wishes from last night's show.  I think it was during the second hour...it sounded so heartfelt. 

[Autistic Star Children]

any update on MV, or is there a congrats thread I missed?

is it tacky to create a thread before we know any news?