Herman by Jim Unger for June 29, 2016

Beautiful! I just hope he doesn’t fall off the table.

What is that funny-looking box with the two circles?

Reminds me of Mr. Botibol from the short story by Roald Dahl.

That’s the finale!

Lemme guess, ‘The Sorceror’s Apprentice’, right?

True story, I once had a roommate who’d listen to Live From the Met on the radio, and conduct the operas, – while watching baseball games on tv with the sound turned off !

reel to reel – i use to use that device for all my gigs back in the day when you couldn’t hall all the instruments with you or wanted a piano, or double guitar etc. on a song.had the best sound (at that time) for live stuff.now just press a button ‘sing’ into a mic and then have a computer fix the pitch/tone, add instruments, upload the finished product to youtube and you become a ‘star’

Gotta be one of things on his “bucket list” huh?

Uh oh, looks like Gramps got into my magic brownies again.

One of the bosses with Shell used to play his reel to reel player in their Morgan City offices..They were already ancient technology by then, but it was quite good sound quality — to my untrained ear..He had John Philip Sousa marches playing.Really wakes you up early in the morning.

I’m guilty of doing this too. When I used to conduct The Mikado on my record player. And, in the 80’s, I was a conductor on the New York City Subway.