Garage find : Porsche 356

(https://www.naimaudio.com/ja/naim%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6)

Naim

1969年　慎ましやかな始まり

友人のライブをレコーディングした際、再生した音源のクオリティに不満だったJulian Verekerは、レーシングカーの設計からアンプの開発へ転向します。

My favorite thing about this week's episode of pjo is the epic boss battle music playing in the background when Percy was driving the car. The way the music makes it so a 12 year old driving a car and crashing into things has the same sense of danger as a fight scene, the triumphant music when Percy manages to make a turn without crashing, the way the music stopped the moment Percy ran into the wall. An excellent choice

Today I was lazy to do something new so have this old drawing made the last year

☆ Kirisame Marisa // Touhou Project ☆ Resin kit / 1/6 / Wondersmith ☆ Wonder Festival 2024 [Winter] ¥39,000 ☆ Sculpt PeiPei Paint Monshin Illustration Yogisya

Swallow pride with the moon; pack your bags for a fate we can't outrun

part of my ongoing garages songs/life series project :)

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Photo: Justin Wadeorton

Oh Sklonda's righteous fury hits so hard, as a kid who WAS taken advantage of in many ways by her friends when she was in school, and whose mom tried to tell her they were being unkind and who didn't believe her until she got kinder friends

it's beautiful to picture the anodic dance club as like, the new hot spot for the young people of martinaise to hang out and all bond with each other and have all their different worldviews mingle and create new things... but lbr chances are half of those people are going to end up just not really liking anodic music. like, thanks for keeping the pale hole contained or whatever but this music blows

Orange Crush

(https://www.virgintriumph.com/column/column01/c01-20151204/)

（前略）BMWのミュンヘン工場に行くと、生産ラインの横にビールの自動販売機が置かれていた。作業員はビール瓶の栓をプッシュと抜いて、その小瓶をインパネの上に置き、ネジを締めている。彼はそのビール瓶とラジカセを持って次のクルマに移動し、ニコニコしながら私に手を振っている。

案内の方に聞くと、「戦後の食糧難の時に、人々はビールを飲んで飢えをしのいだのです。そのため彼らからビールを取り上げることは出来ないのです」と言う。

メルセデスもBMWも、対応されたトップの方々はいずれもクルマがお好きで、古いクルマに精通されていた。

（中略）小さな設計会社も大企業の社長さんもディーラーのおっさんも、皆さんクルマ好きが高じてクルマの仕事に携わっている。クルマ好きが高じて自動車を作るというのは当たり前のように思うが、残念ながら日本ではあまりお目に掛からない。この差が商品に現れているように思う。何ごとも「ユーザーのマインド」を越えなければ、人を感動させるモノは創れないと思う。

イギリスにはクルマの設計をお願いに伺ったのだが、私自身、何とも複雑な気持ちだった。というのも、かつての先生にお金を払って、我々の指示に従って仕事をしてもらうからだ。

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我々の先生だった英国は皆さんクルマ好き

掲載日／2015年12月04日

立花 啓毅 Hirotaka TACHIBANA

“Steve Harrington is a groupie! Steve Harrington is their merch girl! Steve Harrington is a roadie!”

Incorrect. Steve Harrington is the band mom and the sound queen.

In his duties as band mom, he has the guys over the morning after a gig and cooks them all breakfast. His place quickly becomes the place for post gig/practice dinners bc Steve is always willing to open his home to these guys who make Eddie so happy to be around. And yeah, he helps lug some equipment in and out of their practice space and their gigs, but he’s also handing out set lists and keeping his eye on the guys to make sure they have water up there with them. He’s done this since before he and Eddie officially got together.

The sound queen thing came.. slower. It took him a while to get used to the style of music the guys played, to understand who played what lead and what a lead even meant. Music was never really his thing, it was just background to the parties and the hookups, until he began hanging around Eddie. He slowly developed opinions on how the band sounded, felt the feedback grind his gears one too many times before, after practice one day, he tentatively approached Eddie and suggested maybe he could turn the gain down on his mic, just a little bit, on that third song, let that cool thing that Gareth’s doing shine through a bit more.

Eddie, of course, is thrilled that Steve Has Opinions on his music and is getting Actually Involved and encourages it all. He sets him up with their shitty sound board in the garage and let’s Steve experiment with the sound, the whole band giving pointers to Steve. He introduces Steve to the guy who runs the board at the Hideout, and Steve starts spending every show sitting back at the board, listening intently and watching the op’s fingers twitch over the minuscule adjustments to make the band sound just right.

And then they show up for a gig one night and the board op is sick. Like, really sick. And his back up is also sick. And Eddie, man, I’m sorry, but without an op, we can’t have a show. Maybe we can reschedule. And the guys are devastated. They’ve been working towards this one for months, they’re actually starting to get somewhere as a band. So Steve volunteers. He knows this board, he knows the way the guys like to sound, he knows the space. He can manage one show, right?

Naturally, it’s the best they’ve ever sounded. Eddie’s beaming with pride as Steve comes around the back after the show, a few groupies are hanging off the guys elbows, telling them how good they sounded, and hey, when’s the next show? There’s some people who have to be here the next time they play.

And that’s how Steve takes over sound entirely for the band. It ticks off some venues when they insist Steve be at the board, and sound checks take a little longer and require a bit more feedback when they move into new spaces, because Steve’s hearing is a little wonky, sometimes, after all of the knocks to the head, but he manages. Manages pretty well, until the guys have a manager and they’re playing venues bigger than Steve is really comfortable with and really, he knows nothing about recording audio so it’s okay that he’s not the one operating the board when they’re in the studio. But he is in the room, giving his opinions as Eddie smiles. Because, as band mom, Steve knows that Eddie’s got the lead on that first song, and Garett does that cool thing in the third that really should be brought to the front, and Jeff’s harmony in the sixth is a little strong, they’ll want to back off on that a bit and…

meanwhile, in the joy of life save's mini-reboot: dallas’ new digs are coming along swimmingly 🌵