4 March 2008--it's...1984

[RGMike]

Wouldja believe INXS "Original Sin" is another Bustout!?

BOS #3

I'm shocked to hear that!  VHM from me.

I'm shocked too.  And "Close to the Edit" is only making its 3rd appearance.

[Wayback]

Did he say "the American folk singer Michael Jackson..."

that's "pop singer". Take those Jellybeans outta yer ears!

What?!! I can't hear you, I got jellybeans in my ears, eyes and nose!!!

[mshray]

BOS to "Close to the Edit," slowly becoming a Dave recurrent.

Not really, it's first and only appearance was less than a year ago in the Db, unless it showed up once more since Dec. 1.

[Wayback]

"Well, I got to go sweep the nation! Party on! How about playin' some Yes?"  Signed, Ronnie

[urth]

Wouldja believe INXS "Original Sin" is another Bustout!?

BOS #3

I'm shocked to hear that!  VHM from me.

As am I.

Meanwhile here's the dreaded Yes--but at least a less-heard offering. Our Song, waxing poetic about...Toledo?

[Davefish]

Well, if you gotta hear 90125, this is certainly a less-played track.

[RGMike]

BOS to "Close to the Edit," slowly becoming a Dave recurrent.

Not really, it's first and only appearance was less than a year ago in the Db, unless it showed up once more since Dec. 1.

by which i guess you mean "in a 1984 set", since it made a "strictly instrumental" appearance once too.

2nd-least-necessary: "It's My Life".

[mshray]

Wouldja believe INXS "Original Sin" is another Bustout!?

BOS #3

I'm shocked to hear that!  VHM from me.

As am I.

Meanwhile here's the dreaded Yes--but at least a less-heard offering. Our Song, waxing poetic about...Toledo?

Not sure about Toledo, but Dave is in error here.  "Our Song" was the lead single...it & the album 90125 came out in 1983, with "Our SOng" peaking at #32 (in 1983, not 1984)

[Wayback]

BOS to "Close to the Edit," slowly becoming a Dave recurrent.

Not really, it's first and only appearance was less than a year ago in the Db, unless it showed up once more since Dec. 1.

by which i guess you mean "in a 1984 set", since it made a "strictly instrumental" appearance once too.

2nd-least-necessary: "It's My Life".

I have a vivid memory of watching the video of "Its My Life" on the big screen at the ol' Ritz in NYC back in the day.  That and sitting with Dave Edmunds for a few minutes, getting his autograph after his concert at the Ritz in 83 or 84.

[Davefish]

So apparently they weren't talking about the laserdisk player.  What was it?  Dave mentioned Selectavision which sounds familiar, but what's the technology?  It did seem odd to talk about laserdisk in 1984, since CDs had yet to come out then, or were just about to.

ETA:  Well, I looked up Selectavision.  It's a bizarre technology using vinyl disks and a real needle decoding both video and audio.  CED, doncha know...

[RGMike]

BOS to "Close to the Edit," slowly becoming a Dave recurrent.

Not really, it's first and only appearance was less than a year ago in the Db, unless it showed up once more since Dec. 1.

by which i guess you mean "in a 1984 set", since it made a "strictly instrumental" appearance once too.

2nd-least-necessary: "It's My Life".

I have a vivid memory of watching the video of "Its My Life" on the big screen at the ol' Ritz in NYC back in the day.  That and sitting with Dave Edmunds for a few minutes, getting his autograph after his concert at the Ritz in 83 or 84.

'80s club days! I saw Crock of Seagulls at The Peppermint Lounge in the summer of '82.

[Wayback]

So apparently they weren't talking about the laserdisk player.  What was it?  Dave mentioned Selectavision which sounds familiar, but what's the technology?  It did seem odd to talk about laserdisk in 1984, since CDs had yet to come out then, or were just about to.

The CD is based on Laserdisc technology. Laserdisc info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc

and, history of the CD:
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-20/h5.html

[Wayback]

BOS to "Close to the Edit," slowly becoming a Dave recurrent.

Not really, it's first and only appearance was less than a year ago in the Db, unless it showed up once more since Dec. 1.

by which i guess you mean "in a 1984 set", since it made a "strictly instrumental" appearance once too.

2nd-least-necessary: "It's My Life".

I have a vivid memory of watching the video of "Its My Life" on the big screen at the ol' Ritz in NYC back in the day.  That and sitting with Dave Edmunds for a few minutes, getting his autograph after his concert at the Ritz in 83 or 84.

'80s club days! I saw Crock of Seagulls at The Peppermint Lounge in the summer of '82.

I think I saw Little Steven & the Disciple of Souls at the Pep in 82!

[SFGuy]

So apparently they weren't talking about the laserdisk player.  What was it?  Dave mentioned Selectavision which sounds familiar, but what's the technology?  It did seem odd to talk about laserdisk in 1984, since CDs had yet to come out then, or were just about to.

ETA:  Well, I looked up Selectavision.  It's a bizarre technology using vinyl disks and a real needle decoding both video and audio.  CED, doncha know...

I seem to remember CD players being out before 1984. I remember going to one of those autograph signings I mentioned about before at the old Record Factory and they had a little demo on it with somebody from a local news station (forgot which one, it was about 26 years ago).

[urth]

So apparently they weren't talking about the laserdisk player.  What was it?  Dave mentioned Selectavision which sounds familiar, but what's the technology?  It did seem odd to talk about laserdisk in 1984, since CDs had yet to come out then, or were just about to.

ETA:  Well, I looked up Selectavision.  It's a bizarre technology using vinyl disks and a real needle decoding both video and audio.  CED, doncha know...

I seem to remember CD players being out before 1984. I remember going to one of those autograph signings I mentioned about before at the old Record Factory and they had a little demo on it with somebody from a local news station (forgot which one, it was about 26 years ago).

They were probably available in 84, but they were very much an audiophile-only, luxury item until 86 or so--I can't say how much they would have cost but probably $700-$800, if not more. And you'd have had to go to a stereo store to buy the discs--I don't think the average record store carried many if any. The first of my friends got a CD player was in 86 after the price had dropped a fair amount, and I got mine maybe six months to a year later for about $250. And I think I was a little ahead of the curve--at that point Tower still carried far more vinyl than it did CDs. Within a year or so that ratio had reversed.