ddimuro.bsky.social
Musician, writer, former movie-TV sound designer with an axe to play
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Shifting is good! I wish I could shift more often!
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I always thought it was “help that fast.” Another misheard lyric!
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Hard to think of a better band with worse luck.
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My old boss fired a guy for using his work computer for porn. “We looked at his history and he’d gone to 50 different porn sites!” I said: “Joe, he could have gone to ONE site, and got caught in a porn loop!”
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Greg Gierowski, an artist friend who has done all my CD covers for the past 4 years, beginning with this one. He does nice work!
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Well, of COURSE they're being delivered exactly when I'll be at the eye doctor. So much for this weekend!
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The fact that this finally happened is deeply disturbing. The guy had no social media or website, and even his picture looks fake. He says he "composed & played" but he would have had to play all the instruments in a baroque quartet, classical guitar, etc. My editor is shocked this is even possible.
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It DID implode rather nicely!
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It was crappy. I threw it off the school balcony and filmed it in slow motion. My next guitar was much better, a Vox-like teardrop.
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Just a no-name Japanese cheapie
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Yeah that one jumped out at me
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Can Half-speed really improve these old recordings? Not sure but it sounds quite smooth. Virgin vinyl probably helps!
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A double and a single LP by Dimthings
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He may have been from Florida, but he was definitely local to LA for a while. We met at the Redondo Beach pier where my Dad used to take me fishing.
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Oh yeah, and a pain in the ass, with minimum runs of 500. I did look into it but was always humbled by all the steps required.
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He said it was one of his best interviews ever. And that was just me rolling with the moment!
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He used to live near LA, so we met for dinner and I had my tape running (natch) and he assumed I was there to interview him so that’s what happened. It got printed somewhere. Gajoob maybe? But I was taping everything then!
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Oh yeah. He mostly did vinyl. His attitude was “I listen to music on vinyl, so I should be on vinyl too!” I have a few sealed albums he sent me to sell.
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Reminds me of…
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Actually that song has a great guitar sound. It's just that I heard it enough at the time. I'm really playing the album for the sounds anyway.
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LOL. I was mailing out my first cassette albums in 83-84, & reviewing in '85, so I was kind of a music snob. But you couldn't get away from 80's music & MTV. All the women I dated were into it. And "normal" people thought cassette artists were untalented & deluded, including the Option mag editor!
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I totally avoided most music of this era. Hated MTV, synth pop, all of it. I mostly listened to indie cassettes. In recent years I've been catching up, just to see what it was all about, without the baggage. I can appreciate the nicer sounding records... but then I go back to my weird faves!
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That’s my least favorite. Generally I like the overall vibe and production. But really I’ve only played it a couple times.
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Eh, way too scratchy. It now becomes record packing material.
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Pretty good for the 80's. However both sides seem to be the same, which feels like a waste! But Dimthings used to sell out all his vinyl runs, so what do I know?