This VINTAGE JAPANESE REEL TO REEL Hides a KILLER GERMANIUM FUZZ FACE!
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- I got these vintage Made in Japan reel to reel tape player recorders years ago. One is a Peerless TP-425, the other is a Nuvox NR-444. They came out of an estate sale in Western Kentucky and included a box of tapes with unknown contents! One of the tapes has some unknown acoustic guitarist playing on it, but to hear it clearly, we'll have to first repair the players. At the end, for giggles, we'll plug a guitar in and see what kind of noise we can make. Hint...the tone gets very Dallas Arbiter - esque.
0:00 Intro
7:00 Repairing the Nuvox
47:52 TAPE CONTENTS - Mystery Artist Sings
54:29 Servicing the Peerless
58:07 Going Full-On Fuzz Face
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If you are Steven Lynn, Stephen Lynne, or other spelling variation and you're about 55 years old and originally from Madisonville, Kentucky area, check to see these tapes aren't part of your family history! If by chance these tapes belong to your family, I will gladly return them. Contact me at the email in the description.
I like that tangy Guitar on that recording
I recently did some reel to reel transfers for an old guy I was doing some painting work for. He was beyond thrilled to hear them again. Said he hadn't heard them in 30 or 40 years. Had his father and mother talking about their family history as well as other things going on at the time. Was dated to about 1963. Made me so happy that I could get them onto a playable media for him. These old tapes have an incredible shelf life. Try playing a CD-R from even ten years ago.
Correct! Tape is a great medium for long-term preservation. That's wonderful you were able to bring those memories back for that old feller. That's something special.
You have to buy the archive CDs if you want them to last, just look for any blanks that say made in Japan on the packaging and you'll be fine.
@@TheGuitologist The Library of Congress archives material to analog-analog RR tape.The tape machines from VOA went to the Library of Congress-I worked on many of those machines-some using tubes-60yrs old!Digital does not archive well.Esp if its an early digital format that isn't used today.Analog can ALWAYS be recorded and played back with minimal and simpler equipment.
@@TheGuitologist Yep. As long as they are stored in proper condition with respect to temperature and humidity they will outlast you and me. There's a reason why you can still buy tape backup devices for computers. You can store a huge amount of data extremely cheaply and it will last forever when stored properly. Don't expect data stored on a CD-R, flash memory or an hdd (even if it's disconnected and in a box) to last more than 20 years. But that old 1.44" floppy disk can be read in 50 years if you still have a drive for it.
So many times when a guy passes away his belongings are discarded. Lost are family heirlooms are lost forever! These tapes were made for personal pleasure or maybe for demo purposes. Either way there must have been thousands of singers/guitar players recorded their voice and guitars on tape recorders like these! I did! In 1963, the year I started playing guitar, my Dad bought one. I must have recorded 1 or 2 songs. I sure wish I had those tapes now! Like 1000s of musicians like him, it was a thrill to here what you sounded like. Thank you Brad for this video. It brought back some great memories. Love from your buddy in NW Colorado. Thanxz
In my youth it was cassette tapes we recorded on. I still have several of mine. In fact, I have on tape the very first time I picked up an electric guitar!
Thanks for posting this! I *love* hearing “found” old tapes (not the creepy ones, though). When I was a kid my dad recorded our Christmas morning festivities (which I’ve had digitized in recent years) and other family events on a high-end, bulky Norelco reel-to-reel deck. When I got old enough I started doing “bounces” between two cassette decks, to achieve “multi-track” recordings of my own music. As a young man I cut my producer/engineer teeth in a small 4-track studio. Today I do that (along with live gigs) for a living in my computer-based home studio-like pretty much every other musician. 😎
Also, as has been said repeatedly in the comments, badass fuzz tone, and nice chops! Subscribed!
Looked like you plugged directly into that. The distortion and sound outa that thing is just killer. WOW!!!
As for me I kinda miss this kinda stuff, that’s how I got here in the first place. Enjoy most all your content. Stuff like this just dose it for me. Thank you.
Stay safe out there…
Correct. That's plugged directly into the tape recorder and out to the camera. I did no post editing at all except to convert to mono because it was only on the left channel.
I could see that being made into a badass FUZZ PEDAL very cool 😎.
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So this is what you get up to when your not watching watch restoration videos lol. Awesome channel mate, my first time here. Love those vintage electronics.
Yessir. Thanks for stopping by. Love your channel too. I think the same sorts of things drive us both - love of restoring neglected things to working order and learning the history of them in the process.
@@TheGuitologist amen brother. It was your funny video on the fake guitar restoration that popped up on my feed and brought me here. Those guys man? But hey what can you do but giggle. If it puts food on the table🤷♂️
@@NekkidWatchmaker I respect the grift. Gotta at least give them props for that.
I'm by no means a reel-to-reel aficionado but I remember as a kid in the 70s comparing the reels on a tape recorder (and the spools on my school's projector) to the gears on my bike and thinking that the recording must speed up as the amount of tape on each reel increased and decreased. It wasn't until I got my first cassette recorder that I discovered that the tape speed was regulated by a pinch roller and the reel just took up the slack. These recorders are exactly what I had naively imagined tape recorders to be when I was about 10 - so I can't imagine what kind of engineering design went into producing them. As there is no tape speed regulation, anybody trying to play the tapes on a 'normal' reel-to-reel machine would have heard everything progressively slow down - probably a bit weird if they were being sent as 'spoken letters'.
Nice to see a guitar at the end, by the way, though my cat was glad when you stopped playing.
Great Solo , great renovations work
Sounds like something playing in a Texas chainsaw massacre movie…. That jam was killer though…
That would make a great massacre scene with that soundtrack playing.
I was thinking the same. Great nugget you stumbled across.
@@TheGuitologist yea it has that “pre-massacre” scratchy kinda creepy sound that horror movies have used….. your guitar playing was great
Great video Brad, brought back memories from the mid sixties when I had a similar slightly smaller model!
That guy singing on that tape reminds me of that scene on The Munsters where Herman was singing about those dry bones and a DJ got ahold of the tape and thought he had a hit.
Fascinating stuff Brad -- listening to those old recordings of the guitar/singing and the baby -- really evokes some "feelings" that are hard to explain. Anyway -- the fuzz you got out of the other unit at the end -- guitar players pay top dollar for tones like that. Reminded me a little of some of the fuzz tones Dan Auerbach got on the early Black Keys records.
Gotta love those Stone Age PCB’s ! Wish they were still that robust! That recording of the kid kinda got me. Wonder where or IF he still is.
Fantastic sound effects! Thank you ❤️🎶🌈🦋
Thanks for watching!
Love the tone outta that little cheap amp! Love the old tape discovery & tech too... Thanks Brad!
Glad you like it!
Listening to those old tapes was really interesting... The fuzz tone was great too!! Cheers Brad
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video brad thank you!!’
Very welcome
Pretty damn impressive there Brad! I had two little recorders back in the middle 60's to multi Trac with on guitar 🤟
Earphone?
badass fuzz tone!!
What great music......a lost unknown country musician .....maybe these were demos
l had several of those little reel to reel tape recorders. The first I got from a restaurant owner whom my mother cooked for, he gave it to me as he heard that I liked electronics. It was a high class unit, I was to young to appreciate it. It was an all steel cabnite rather heavy for its size, it had micro tubes so needed to warm up and actually had a capstan to regulate the speed so I could record music with it. After that it was cheap ones, my sisters second husband gave me one that he got free with the wedding rings he purchased for the merriage, later I purchased a few with the money I made working my uncles farm for 5 bucks a 14 hour day of work. I used to use them till something pissed me off, then I would tear them apart and make mini PA systems using the amps and microphone, wiring it direct out on the speaker then putting them in old sample cases we found in the attic of the house dad bought from a traveling salesman' s family. They were fun. I even put a speaker in the side of the out door toilet that we still used and when my sister was in there, I said, "Hey we are working down here!" Got a laugh out of that one.
Dude... That fuzz is wild!
Nice guitar playing thru your "new" tape deck "preamp"!
That is one cool sound
Great Fuzz Face! WOW! (and flutter). Reminded me of Terry Kath. Play that funky music white boy ( or is that "fuzzy").
and i had to miss the end of the live.... goodness that was a good fuzz
I love the way you play Brad
Thanks dude!
That’s really eerie
Awsome hearing those old recordings. Who knows when where it was and what ever became of them.
Love your vintage radio and tape machines , really cool the E-PH stands for earphones that's what they were called back then . Alfred NYC/ PR.
Great work as always and loved the first principles reminder. XD But this one definitely falls into the fascinating AND creepy category for me. Voices from the past.
I see sweetness in it...especially in the little girl laughing at her Aunt Mary, and Mary recording her son or grandson. It's a form of time travel. We are allowed this analog window into the past. Pretty awesome stuff. In centuries past, it would have been considered sorcery and you'd be burned at the stake! Maybe we still should be. ;)
@@TheGuitologist Hahah, indeed Brad, I was only commenting from the dark side. But in all honesty, these kinds of records from the past should always be cherished.
I'd love to hear a transfer of that song from a higher quality reel to reel. It's still amazing you were able to get it sounding as good as you did.
A higher quality reel to reel would cause the tape to gradually change speeds as it plays, because there is no pinch roller and capstan. It's driven with the take up reel itself.
@@TheGuitologist That could be adjusted for in software.
That qualty of that old guitar & vocal sounded like a studio Jimmie Rogers record.
I thought the exact same thing. Especially when his voice goes to the high notes.
That has to be the best sounding fuzz tone I've heard in a long time. You have me looking for that exact model on ebay right now. I found the first one you got working, what's the brand of the one you played through?
The one I played through was a Peerless, but honestly, I think you'll get similar results from either. They probably made them under other fly by night brands as well, I'm sure.
Here's one that probably has the exact same board inside: www.ebay.com/itm/354029466559?hash=item526dccf3bf:g:ahEAAOSwP5BiaAmb
Here's another still in the original box: www.ebay.com/itm/324709534270?hash=item4b9a324a3e:g:jMYAAOSwu9Vg6YDf
Search "Japan Reel to Reel Portable" and you'll see a lot of them.
The song is "Warble" by Am I. Fadin'.
I remember buying a radio 📻 by the name Peerless, sometime around 2002. It was about $5.00, at a thrift store 🏬. I was very disappointed ☹️ when I got home 🏠 to find out that it didn’t work. I don’t remember what happened to the radio 📻 in the years. It was a vintage item, I think, had I held on to it. We never 👎 had TH-cam, or Shango066, or Radiotvphononut, some of the best radio 📻 recappers of all time. It was probably a bad, or blown out capacitor. Your friend, Jeff.
One of my favorite tones as a kid was playing through my dad's jvc stereo amp at 14 yrs old I believe it's the phone that has a lot of gain and I loved it and it was stereo !!!!!
AH THE ICONIC SOUND OF OLD SCHOOL ELECTRONICS AT 58:08 !
I could see that second machine being built into a badass FUZZ 😎 pedal NICE !
EPH = Ear phones great to see some content Brad, hope your well bro.
Crazy harmonic richness. It sounds almost square wave but not quite. You can hear almost an octave up above the 12th fret on some notes. It's Big Muff op amp territory with distortion? This thing is wild. Man, is there anything you can't fix Bravo 👏
Not trying to down play the effort but all he did on that amp board was recap it. That's not even really trouble shooting. But it did have a nice tone.
When us kids were little-in the days we sent tape messages to Mom.She would then use the same tape and record messages to us.Worked well! Would have been interesting to lisetned to that music tape on one of VOA edit decks!
Run the tape across the Record Head of One across the Play Head of the other. With a good distance between the two and the tape spliced into a loop. With that fuzz you would have some serious Frippertronics.
Fripp would not abide with that level of w&f though. Still a cool idea. Put it together in one case and sell them as LoFi Frippertronics.
@@trippmoore I remember not knowing Crimson. Ended up at their Discipline Show. Audience stayed seated not knowing what to make of it. I walk up to the Stage to look at Fripp sitting in the middle of a stack of Gear. Why is this guy sitting there? Does he have a bad leg? Fripp jumps up and runs to me with Beleew and they proceed to blow my adolescent mind. Now I'm sitting amidst a pile of Gear, remembering the day the Parson delivered the Fire Sermon.
@@IIImobiusIIIWow that must have been mind bending. Amazing story. Discipline has always been my favorite album at least from that era of Crimson, possibly of all of them. Certainly in the top 2 with In The Court of the Crimson King. That debut album is hard to find fault with. I was lucky enough to pick up first pressings of Disciple, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair at a used record shop in 2005. They are in ex/nm condition and I paid $9 for all three! What’s your favorite Crimson album? Stuckless and Bible Black?
@@trippmoore That was funny. How did I never notice that. Especially as Starless is one of my favorite Songs. How Red is their worst selling Album is just weird. I had to buy a Bass when I heard Starless. Now because of your comment, I'll have to do a cover at some point. Fripp even made a whole Album with a Violinist David Cross, all based on Starless Starlight.
I agree the First is a Classic. I think Beleew really was a good fit with Fripp though. I like so many of the projects that Beleew worked on like Talking Heads (David Byrnes bandmates actually offered Him David's position), Laurie Anderson and His Solo work. Even his early work with the Bears.
These two Guys changed the way I looked at Guitar. I actually was going to change my name legally to Thela Hun Ginjeet (somebody had to do this) but this is not allowed in Québec. It's so hot up here now it would have been perfect. Heat in the Jungle indeed. Cheers.
@@IIImobiusIII The tradition is to give your kid a weird name, so there’s still a chance for a Ginjeet in the family perhaps. Lol. I don’t know Byrne or Belew, but I’d have to,imaging that Belew is the much more agreeable bandmate. Byrne was clearly the more influential and iconic artist of the two, but that usually goes along with being more “difficult” to get along with. The sensitive and tortured artist cliché. The Talking Heads are one of my favorite bands and they truely created some of the most unique yet catchy pop songs, but I kinda wonder what kinds com music would have been created if Belew and Byrne had met 5 or 6 years earlier when the nascent Heads might have included him as a founding member.
I have a Western Auto Truetone 3 in. R-R that I got for my 9th birthday. It is almost identical to the second one you have. Mine runs off four “C” batteries, came with an ear bud and a very sensitive crystal microphone that was not designed to record music at all. I have recordings I made of the Apollo moon land in 1969. It still plays and is in the original styrofoam packing and box. The model no. is 4DC7863. Used to get so frustrated watching Mission Impossible and they would always destroy a small reel to reel with the secret message every week.
Where do you get those nostalgic intros from? They're awesome.
There have been a couple channel viewers over the years who have volunteered their time to make those for me. The fellow who made this one lives in jolly old England and does for hire work if you need something done.
That Heart Belongs to Me Song by Webb Pierce 1952 it's on TH-cam... lyrics match.
Those old red oxide tapes are known for oxide shedding. Surprisingly they still have sound. Nice find.
I love that shirt!!
I so wanna see a professional guitarist with this reel to reel mounted whole and complete on his/her pedal board.
Then the price of these would skyrocket.
Bitchin' tone on that headphone amp, or is it running through the tape head amp first? In any case you gotta put a loop of tape on the reel and then wire in pot to mix between the tape head and the mic input. Then maybe program a arduino with reverb and other effects and build an interface to put those into the mix as well. Then watch people's head explode when you play for them through an old tiny R2R and no guitar amp. lol I know what I'm going to be doing with the one I have that I have stored away and never thought I'd use.
The second song seems to be one made popular by Ray Price titled -" My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You "
I've worked on a few of these type Japanese type portable rim drive miniature reel to reel recorders. The resistors tend to go really high in value, as well as the electroclytics age badly. I also suspect that they were originally lubricated with a high viscous lubricant, as the modern sewing machine type oil seems to be too "thin" and affects the play back speed. Some of these came with a wire wound variable resistor in series with the motor battery to act as a speed control. Theres a lot of work that can go into these, and at the end of the restoration process they still sound below average.
well considering there's no pinch roller and capstan or back tension on the supply reel you are gonna get tons of wow and flutter. And since these were meant for voice recordings the heads we re the absolute cheapest made back then and probably only have a frequency response of 100Hz -10KHz even when brand new. I'm not sure if they were any better than the current heads produced today for those crappy new tape decks that are being made because people are getting nostalgic for cassettes and think buying new is going to be better than getting a vintage deck.
Great find. Wonder who the mystery performer is. Those are great songs.
The second song seems to be one made popular by Ray Price - titled My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
I think the part you think could be a lint wiper is there for a little drag, so it doesn't freewheel
Someone else suggested that as well. Could be correct. Makes sense.
My first amp was putting a mic, plugged into a Sony reel to reel, into the sound hole of an acoustic guitar.
Fantastic sound with the PRS thru that little transistor amp, I reckon you could sell it to Tony Iommi. Maybe part of the sound is the use of transformers for coupling so the clipping is not as hard, that and germanium transistors. Wow.
60s radios can make great guitar amps, the "Deacy" amp is proof of that, germanium is something apart from both tubes and silicon
I had bunch of those simillar boards with germaniums which i've got from old Japanese wall phone intercom from 70's-80's era (I live in Indonesia so there are lots of old Japanese stuffs and parts here, including the NOS ones), but i never saw it inside of tape machine. It seems like they made it for universal electronic purposes. However, those Japanese germaniums are sounds really good for fuzz or treble booster, and they're much more stable and consistent than European germaniums IMO.
you can't get better than Japanese electronics from the 70s!
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My buddy Glen Trew out of Nashville is a wizard with tape machines. Specifically the Nagras. Call the store Trew Audio and talk with the guy. You would like him a lot.
Cool. I might look him up sometime. Those Nagra machines are the best portables for the era. These here are toys by comparison.
Hey where you from? I'm 50 have an akai reel to reel the one with 8 track built in. Worked for 30 years. Now it's buzzing when I touch it. I know it's a leaking cap any advice on repairs? I'm afraid of it I may ruin it worse I've had it since I was a kid. Only thing it ever needed was new belts.
Sweet! Can we hear that guitar with a little reverb?
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Hell yeah haha.. I used to use an old sony r2r as a very large and inconvenient fuzz in the mid 90s. You could find this stuff for next to nothing at any thrift store back in those days.
E PH= Ear phone/s
Maybe that is the sound that they are recording
Hey Janice. Good to see you. Yes, I believe a lot of the wow and flutter and some of the low volume issues are the result of the recordings themselves. I think by the end there, I had them playing about as well as they ever did.
@@TheGuitologist great playing at the end!
Man Brad you should copy that circuit in a stomp version, it would be interesting. 🤔🤔🤔
Old ass stuff will always be desirable at some point. Who has the warehouse space to hold on to all of old stuff that will some day be the next super hot collectable
I too have pondered this very thing, and you know what my answer is? Buy it anyway and put it in my house - closets, garages, attics, closets. Like cash under the mattress. :D
HERE WE HAVE ... here here here ...lol
Shango only wishes he could jam through his equipment. Best he can do is show us the Home Shopping Network and fake news at the end. Love that dude.
When I was a teenager I used to jam out on Bass Guitar and sing along with my friend that played on an old home organ that had built-in analogue percussion Yeah, we weren't very cool! Anyway, we used to record onto an old Japanese Reel To Reel using a £20 Tandy/Radioshack/Realistic mixer. I think he got the recorder from his Mum who worked in the Social Services with disabled folks. Anyhoo the box of reels that we were given had a ton of taped interviews with mental patients, specifically institutionalised folks suffering from things like chronic paranoid schizophrenia. We used to smoke weed and freak ourselves out listening to those tapes, most of it was wild, people regressing into childhood and putting on weird kiddie voices, or even creepier, weird demon voices!
I think for your solos you should use those little rubber finger savers! LOL
Never seen anything like it. Great bro. Cute baby 👶
Hey Mike! I like the stuff that's different. You know me! Hope all is going well with you. Still praying for you, my brother.
@@TheGuitologist very different brother that's why I love your channel. I'm doing real well so far my friend and I think it has something to do with all you guys praying for me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart my friend. 💜
@@Chinaguitarsceptic Yes sir. Love you and God speed. Best to the family too.
20:53 Man you've got some dedicated family members! To take on Snakes on an Estate Sale to get you some deals like that = )
This is what they call a 'rim drive' reel to reel player. They are about as cheap as they come. As you say, they are very Japanese, just by looking at them. The 'wow and flutter' is near impossible to avoid and the tape changes speed as the reel of tape leaves one reel to the other. I've messed with a handful of these, and they are all the same. They have a 'cute' factor though, that's why I like them. Certainly better as a dictation or talking recording than for recording music. Love this stuff!
Now take that Fuzz, and build it into a pedal!
I agree with your assessment about being better for dictation for sure. I got this working about as smoothly as it ever did and even still, the wow and flutter was baked into the original recordings so outside some kind of wow and flutter digital elimination processing, no way of getting it out.
The wow and flutter is because there isnt no capstan and pinchroller in that thing. Not really a problem with tension
I saw something where this guy bought a house and found a lot of these tapes and it was Elvis and a few other famous people and some I've never heard of but it was just of them jamming and practicing at someone's house I bet those tapes are worth a lot of money 🤑💰
what about using 2SA733 for the PNP and 2SC945 for the NPN.
You should get your hands on an UHER 4200 or 4400 REPORT. That's a very high quality and cheap alternative to a NAGRA. These japanese dictaphone recorders are usually crap. No bias oscillator, and no capstan drive, so the tape speed changes constantly with the amount of tape on the takeup reel. Love the FUZZ tones though.
E-PH probably means Ear Phones. I remember the term well from my youth.
By the 60s, the majority of these little mono tape machines were half-track. Did you try flipping the tapes over and playing the other side?
52:44 mom starts pinching him because he ain't talking enough 😅🤣😂😄😁😅🤣
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Haha I thought that too
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Maybe cleaning the head of the first machine would give a little bit of clarity of the sound. Remember those 'anti-magnetic/head cleaners' in the 80's? You can do it with Q tips and accetone.
Was hoping you were going to restore the second one as I have one exactly like it . Mine has little brass wheels that are one the ends of both motors .Not sure if there was supposed to be rubber tires on them or not . Either way its had a lot of use and because of what it is I wasn't sure it was worth spending any time restoring it so there its sat.
Same principles will apply to both. I bet they even have the exact same circuit board in them.
@@TheGuitologist For me the electronics is the easy bit the mechanics of these is the issue. Makes you wander what these were like when new. Mine was in a bundle when I bought a decent Reel to reel plus some tapes. One thing I've learnt with reel to reels is you have to get the mechanics right otherwise it'll sound like crap. Oh and don't trust any of those Selenium diodes. If they fail they can tape every germanium transistor out as well as some exploding caps.
you could put a piece of silicone tubing on the forward shaft
That first fella sounded pretty good
0live oil works great on that old rubber.
YOU GOT ANY mystery tapes of fuzz music or field recordings, that would be cool. AH I see at the end you fuzzed me off! Do you think playing through such a tape machine was caused the birth of the first fuzz pedal?
An outbuilding with a dirt floor. Usually we call it a barn
that baby is around 60 years old now
I Have A Rechargeable 9 Volt Battery &
It Said On The Battery 8.4 Volts
When It's Fully Charged It Puts
Out 8.4 Volts
A fully charged battery should be slightly above the stated voltage, otherwise it's worn out. A lot of equipment will go ahead and run fine on a low battery, but other stuff doesn't like it.
Rubycon bad caps??? Maybe in the 70's but today they are known to be excellent capacitors!.
I guess that relying on a felt pad pressing the tape against the head rather than a proper capstain's always going to make reliable playback a bit of a challenge.
Even if he could have worked a miracle and got this deck down to 0.02% w&f that tape still would have sounded like shit. The deck that recorded this tape likely was just as cheap so that w&f is already recorded onto the tape. Not to mention that it more than likely that he head of the recording deck was not aligned as the playback head was. But you are correct, it at least needs a pinch roller/capstan to pull the tape a uniform speed and the correct amount of back tension on the supply real to have decent specs. Even better a dual capstan (closed loop) design will get you the most stable tape transport and the lowest w&f.
copy that circuit and start a pedal company . call it reel to real fuzz .. from Bradtone
Maybe someday we'll build one as a pedal and tweak it.
@@TheGuitologist I'd watch that video . count me in
@@TheGuitologist Build it, and people will Cum!
i was gifted a record player that used to plug into a old studabaker car? if i spelled that right. ever seen one of those? i could send you a picture of it if you like.
A record player for a car? Sounds like a brilliant invention! I've actually heard of those. Meant for picnics and such. Before compact tapes.
Just my thoughts drifting around, Japan second world war. Occupation and rebuilding of Japan. Weird products that came from Occupied Japan.
Great Japanese guitars.
Great Japanese automobiles.
I've been driving Toyota for over 20 years. I have Chevrolets also, but I just have great experience with the Toyotas
YMMV
WHAT NO LICK CHECK ON THE 9V BATTERY
I Can Tolerate So Much Of That
Noise These Younger People Call Music.The Real To Real Sounded Better With My Shoes Keep Walking
Back To You & That Heart Belongs To Me.
It's much more fun being the one jamming than having to be the one listening to it, for sure.