[78-L] "have a crap" records

[David Lennick]

It WOULD be the Unfinished!! When I was at CJFM in Montreal, we had a nightly 
classical show which featured as many Deutsche Grammophon LPs as possible (also 
Arkive, which at that time consisted of off key renditions on bent hollowed out 
television antennas and hosepipes passing for "original instruments"). Full 
symphonies and concertos. And we used some shpritz-on record cleaner which of 
course clogged the grooves..many times I'd be across the hall (in the 
production studio, not the can) recording a voice track when I'd see the phone 
lights flashing and of course it would be because of a stuck groove.

(Another famous CBC story involves a certain tech who was known for flipping a 
disc quickly, except for the time when it broke..so much for that Saturday 
afternoon at the opera. It was an LP, too.)

dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> I don't think anyone's mentioned it but another good reason to have a speaker in the washroom is to be aware if the stylus hits an obstacle and starts repeating a revolution.
> 
> I had one experience on a live-to-air classical show where we were trying to play a symphony and about 10 minutes into the side, the stylus would become completely clogged and skate across the rest of the record.  We always cleaned records before playing them and, of course, while Margaret Pacsu was explaining to the old folks at home, (as current C.B.C. executives view all listeners to classical music), what had happened, we re-cleaned this one before trying to play it again.  It got a little further before the arm once again, for reasons forgotten, skated across the record.  The third time we tried to play it, (while the producer was madly trying to calculate the effect this would have on the timing of the program), it went further still before it hit a locked groove and wouldn't go any further.  The host had to explain to the listeners that we would be unable to finish this work - which was, of course, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, (I'm not making
>  this up).  I remember we were playing the Bruno Walter recording to recognize the centennial of his birth.
> 
> db