[78-L] 14 inch Victor Special DeLuxe

[Michael Biel]

I stumbled across this on U Tube.  He plays a 14 inch Special DeLuxe 
2030 The Flying Dutchman  making great care supposedly to play it at the 
appropriate 60 RPM but it IS actually being played at 45 and he is 
getting all bent out of shape when people tell him that it is at 45. You 
can count the speed yourself.   Actually he says that he is playing it 
at the speed where it sounds right to him.  Aside from the fact that he 
is playing the record on a VERY NOISY Victor D (which badly needs at 
least one new gear) and the record sounds much worse than it should by 
being played acoustically (I once dubbed off Fred Williams' collection 
of about 14 of these huge babies and they sounded GREAT electrically) 
does the key it is being played in at this speed sound right to the 
musicians in this group???  I know the tempo is   m-u-c-h     t-o-o    
s-l-o-w  but how about the key?? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILU5VTMLyM&feature=related

By the way, it will also shock most of you to see him butcher a copy of 
Williams and Walker  "I Don't Like the Face You Wear" on Monarch 987 on 
that same Model D with a needle that is LOOSE!!  Look at the needle as 
he puts the reproducer on the record. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzJdjhWRE8&feature=related

And does anybody know who this guy is??

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com