The Tour Tour.....

shack
shack Posts: 11,154
edited March 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Just got through spending a while with Bruce (Tour2ma) as he passed through Knoxville. He was supposed to come by the house last night but couldn't get his butt out of Houston fast enough so he stayed in Chattanooga last night (with my directions to some relatively cheap accommodations). My office is a couple hundred yards from I-40 so he pulled off and we grabbed a cup of coffee and visited for a few. I finally got my Seatrain CD (promised at the SC Polkfest) and a bonus Hamilton Loomis CD. Listened to a few tracks in the car before he had to hit the road. He's off to Roanoke to pick up some obscure gear he found on e-bay. I tried to get him to go by Uptown Audio (A wonderful high-end audio store) there in town...but it was all NEW stuff and has little interest to him.

You guys in the NE beware...he is headed up I-81 as I type. There are lots of stops on the itinerary as I understand. Dorokusai and BlueMDpicker (and others) were mentioned as possible targets...you've been warned. :D
"Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited May 2005
    I guess I can go to the welcome center and wave at him as he drives by.:D
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited May 2005
    Hope he doesn't miss his daughter's wedding cruising for hot buys on used gear. :eek:
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited May 2005
    He's going to sleep in my shed Tuesday night....no way is he allowed in my house.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited May 2005
    Whoever is expecting him, you better put tape down, take some pictures, draw some lines - SOMETHING so you know where your speakers WERE placed before his visit.

    Bruce is a 'hands on' audio enthusiast.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited May 2005
    The cops usually do the drawing, AFTER the fact, when someone effs with my gear.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,818
    edited May 2005
    I have actually seen the chalk lines on Mike's driveway! :eek:

    Back where I live......well, let's just say it's nice to have a saw mill.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited May 2005
    Ah hell! I live in Chattanooga!

    He couldve looked me up if I werent working 12 effing hours at my suck **** job that is slowly killing me well before my time as it drains the life enrgy out of me hour by hour and breaks my back with the endless heavy........but I digress.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited May 2005
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    Whoever is expecting him, you better put tape down, take some pictures, draw some lines - SOMETHING so you know where your speakers WERE placed before his visit.

    Bruce is a 'hands on' audio enthusiast.


    I know I seen him in Action :D

    Speakers
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    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited May 2005
    Originally posted by MacLeod
    He couldve looked me up if I werent working 12 effing hours at my suck **** job that is slowly killing me well before my time as it drains the life enrgy out of me hour by hour and breaks my back with the endless heavy.........
    So.....I take it you find your job fullfilling and intellectually challenging and would do it for even less than the few pennies they toss your way....right?;)

    Trust me....I don't think you would have wanted to see Bruce draggin' into your home at 11:30 after 12+ hours of driving. Why do you think I directed him to the Microtel? At least this morning he had a shower (I think)...

    Seriously...I enjoyed seeing him again. I have already put some time on the rig with the CDs he dropped off. Thanks Bruce! Funny thing though....the door speaker on the passenger side of my car looks like it's been moved.....
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited May 2005
    Originally posted by shack
    Funny thing though....the door speaker on the passenger side of my car looks like it's been moved.....

    ROFL Thing is, though.....is it still there? :D
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited May 2005
    Originally posted by audiobliss
    ROFL Thing is, though.....is it still there? :D
    Absolutely it is there! He doesn't TAKE stuff...he just MOVES stuff...
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited May 2005
    Bruce made it by today and it was a pleasure meeting him. Great guy! We got to spin a few tunes on various gear setups and even catch some Mayall and the Bluesbreakers on DVD. He's the kind of guy you feel like you've known forever -- turned me on to some great music as well. The time flew by way too fast.

    Have a safe tour, brother.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited May 2005
    Sorry he's late for dinner, Doro. It's all my fault. He's headed West as I type.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited May 2005
    You should have kept him at your house Mike....but he's now officially gone. The house has been sterilized and a protective order issued barring him from any further contact.

    It was great to see Bruce again and he was actually on his best behavior the entire time. I made him a Texas sized steak dinner that he was apprehensive about at first, but he ate everything....even started gnawing on the bone, no kidding :eek: The fruit bat even likes him, so he must be doing something right as a houseguest.

    We chilled out and smoked a nice cigar in honor of RonP's cigars that are still sitting in my humidor....and busted open the Knob Creek bourbon. Needless to say, that 2 beers and a bottle of bourbon later....Bruce was lit up like a campfire but we chilled and listened to some tunes that he brought. DeeLite was not allowed to be played on the rig.

    I only woke up once to find Bruce at the foot of my bed staring at me...but I just shooed him away with a broomhandle. After that he was doing his best impression of Hoosier21, aka "The Buzzsaw", in the guestroom.

    The next day was the semi-critical listening on the Carver Amazing and the Mission Argonaut. He knows the Carvers pretty well, so nothing really of note to relay. He wanted to swap them around, to put the ribbons on the outside, to enlarge the soundstage but we just got lazy. I will probably move them apart a little more to widen the sweetspot as it is a little narrow for a speaker that is more than capable of filling up a room.

    I rolled in the Argonauts for him to get some ears on and I believe he was duly impressed. I'll let him expound on his actual impressions, but the speaker is simply outstsanding....that's why I have kept them.

    Doro's songlist for Tour:
    Poe - Hello
    Lizzie West - Holy Road
    Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
    Cootie Stark - Raw Sugar
    Indigenous - Things We Do
    Concrete Blond - Still in Hollywood
    Jamie Cullin - Twentysomething
    Various - Kinda Jazzy, Kinda Funky
    King Missile - Happy Hour (If you have not heard "Detachable ****" on a high end stereo, you are missing out :D )

    Tour turned me onto a few things I will be picking up in the near future....for example:

    Dave Mason - Greatest Hits
    JJ Cale - Best of...
    Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
    Joe Walsh - Best of...
    Stravinsky - Firebird - Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony

    It was a great visit with a good friend, thanks for stopping by Bruce :) Here he is....bourbon in hand, ready to turn up the volume.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited May 2005
    Mike's pic, it looks like he is leaning forward, about to cut a ****.

    Mark's pic - 2nd gear.

    So, did he stand in front of any of the rigs, dead center, and start headbanging like he did at SC Polkfest?
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited May 2005
    He was chilled out, nothing really out of the ordinary at all.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited May 2005
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    Mike's pic, it looks like he is leaning forward, about to cut a ****.

    Gimme' three steps,
    Gimme' three steps mister,
    Gimme' three steps out that door,
    Gimme' three steps,
    Gimme' three steps mister,
    I can't take guitar pyrotechnics no more.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited May 2005
    I am all alone
    Their is no one here to hide me
    And my problems are all gone
    There is no one to deride me....

    But you've got to have friends...
    Buzzy Linhart

    Sitting at me Scotish bro's keyboard in Wilmongton, MD for a bit waiting for the wife's flight to finally get off the ground, then it's off to Zoo Jersey for a pick up.

    ROFL guys. It's been a pleasure so far, refreshing old acquantances and adding new ones, both two and four legged. My thanks for all the hospitality shown me.

    My pictoral replies will have to wait a bit, but I have two rare photos in camera: shack is his work uni and the reclusive BMDP...
    Wanted a pic of Doro's cat, Hera, but couldn't get the damn thing to sit still (if you've seen Hera, you understand). And the Pug-nacious "Calie", would have eaten the camera.
    More later,
    Tour...
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