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***Thanks Guys! I'm thrilled to be entering the second third of my life... So far, being 50 has been amazingly great.

Fifty.

Fif-teee.

Fitty.

Five-Oh.

I'll be under my bed.

Cheers!

-MR

***Guys, you are much too kind and complimentary. I truly will never deserve being mentioned in the same sentence as Les Paul, who is our Edison. Funnily I did speak with him tonight, and he sounds his usual self- such an admirable human being. It is a delight and an honor to be so blessed with frie...

***Say, here's some interesting video of Paul McCartney and Nigel Godrich in front of an audience at Abbey Road- interesting to see them use a tape loop with chords on it, and then PM overdubs on a 4-track 1" Studer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbvzXjK0J0U&feature=related I'm looking forward ...

Hey There, There?s a petition to induct Adrian Belew in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which I (Mark Rubel) would ask you to sign: http://www.petitiononline.com/ab2009/petition.html Here are some excerpts from the petition: ?TO: ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: We believe that Adrian Belew h...

Cindy Cashdollar, a stellar musician.

-MR

http://www.geekalerts.com/vintage-ipod-tube-ampcharger/

Vintage: last Wednesday.

-MR

Equipment Stolen from the University of Illinois, 11/07 Microphones Neumann: 3 M250, no power supply or cable, SN #564, 565, 566 3 M249, no power supply or cable, SN #216, 367, 369 SM-69 tube, no power supply or cable, SN #1414 2 TLM-170, SN #1984, 1992 2 KM-84, SN #13974, 13975, 13976, 13581 2 KM-...

***Hey,

here's some fun stuff to look at- I'd like to buy them all, and use 'em for studio walls:

http://soniccircus.com/site/amps/ampsalehome.html

Cheers!

-MR

***Dudes,

I would love to get to hang out with you all, but have a session at that time and then most unfortunately am forced to leave for a gig in the Bahamas Sunday morning. Damned show biz.

-MR

***Here's a funny one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpj2v98xnM

XO,

-MR

So, here's your chance to buy a four-channel RCA tube mixer used by four popes, for only $50,000!:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :B:SS:US:1

Happy bidding.

Cheers,

-MR

***There's a little Sid in us all.

-MR

***This is highly amusing: "Multiple Sidosis"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cRZmvr-2QM

In which Sid explores the possibilities of "Sound With Sound" on his new Roberts tape recorder. It says 1970, but it sure looks earlier.

Enjoy,

-MR

Wasn't Relf doing something totally stupid, like playing electric guitar while taking a bath? Well, according to http://elvispelvis.com/electrocuted.htm, a website of electrocuted musicians (for heaven's sake), that's an urban myth and it was an improperly grounded guitar amp. I believe that his he...

***Offhand I can think of two guitarists killed by electrocution: Les Harvey of the band Stone the Crows was electrocuted onstage, and Keith Relf of the Yardbirds.

-MR