[78-L] Story of the LP (queries)

[Michael Shoshani]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 21:05 +0000, fnarf at comcast.net wrote:

> Of course, the late great John Peel was famous for playing records at the wrong speed for the first few seconds, then switching it up or down in mid-play, often with a muttered "oh, christ, I've done it again" on the microphone.

There's at least one story of a prankster shifting Wolfman Jack's
turntable from 33 to 45 while he wasn't looking; when the record began
at obviously the wrong speed, WJ shifted the turntable down to the
correct speed as he opened his mic and said "Hallelujah, let's hear the
SLOW version!".

Quick thinking makes legends, even if apocryphal...

MS