Sesame Street's API

[Meriphew]

How cool would it be to have the console that was used by such greats as Kermit, Ernie & Bert, Oscar, and countless other muppet greats.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=23785

[joel hamilton]

Awesome.

[joeysimms]

Very cute!

[NewYorkDave]

It amazes me when a seller with little or no feedback puts up such a huge, expensive item for sale. I wonder if he can back up his claim of the console's history.

I'm not too far from Woodstock, so I would entertain offers to come along as a tech consultant for any potential buyers. I'm not an API specialist, but I do know electronics and I have a pretty good bullshit detector

[markpar]

Man, that's one sweet console.

-mark

[coniferouspine]

Man, I can totally *see* it in my mind: it's dark, late at night, two or three '70s engineer dudes looking over the dials and through the glass and seeing Kermit on the other side in front of a U47, crooning "Bein' Green" -- man, what a vibe! ...Ernie & Bert on a playback, fighting over who gets to touch which faders... Just look at how many knobs the Count would have to work with...Man, that is totally a Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem console right there!

[Meriphew]

Man, I can totally *see* it in my mind: it's dark, late at night, two or three '70s engineer dudes looking over the dials and through the glass and seeing Kermit on the other side in front of a U47, crooning "Bein' Green" -- man, what a vibe! ...Ernie & Bert on a playback, fighting over who gets to touch which faders... Just look at how many knobs the Count would have to work with...Man, that is totally a Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem console right there!

I wonder if Emmit Otter's Jug Band used that API?

[JASIII]

...or if it was used on that cool end credit music they had back in the 70's and 80's, with the wah-wah guitar and the bell sounds

[jerrymac]

...or if it was used on that cool end credit music they had back in the 70's and 80's, with the wah-wah guitar and the bell sounds

I always think of the end of that song when I hear the end part (the slow part) of bring it on home by led zeppelin.

jerry

[balletproof]

Here's what I know. I used to work at Harold Dessau Recording on the API that definitely was purchased from Master Sound Astoria (basement of Kaufmann Astoria Studios where Sesame Street was done). When Dessau closed, the console was sold and I installed it in a home studio in Woodstock. It definitly looks like the same one.

www.monkeyboystudios.net

[JASIII]

Yeah, it's got a similiar sound, very "warm"

[balletproof]

I just looked at the ebay seller's ID and it's definitely the guy.

www.monkeyboystudios.net

[chetatkinsdiet]

Don't you guys remember how totally FAT Monster's drums sounded? It's obvious to me that it HAD to have been an API.
later,
m

[NewYorkDave]

I didn't know Sesame Street was shot at Kaufmann Astoria. How about that! And to think that I was watching it only a few neighborhoods away, in Ridgewood. I guess I always assumed they shot it in Manhattan.

Since we're on the subject of early '70s kids' shows... I attended a Tektronix seminar earlier this year that was held at WGBH Boston, in studio A. I asked a couple of oldtimers about it, and it turned out that it was the same studio where they shot "Zoom." Remember that show?

By the way, WGBH is moving out of that location after God-knows-how-many years. Their newer location will have a much smaller studio. As with recording studios, this is the general trend. Massive rooms like GBH's studio A are becoming a thing of the past.

[chetatkinsdiet]

and I'm sure no other studio can afford to move into that space. Instead, it'll end up apartments or condos or something....just like atlantic and so many other great rooms.
later,
m