Is that Chuck Berry on my spine?
source: http://www.kk.org/streetuse/archives/2006/08/jazz_on_bones_xray_sound_recor_1.php
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- sajh
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"In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film."
Wow! How'd they do that??
"...enterprising young people with technical skills learned to duplicate records with a converted phonograph that would "press" a record using a very unusual material for the purpose; discarded x-ray plates. This material was both plentiful and cheap, and millions of duplications of Western and Soviet groups were made and distributed by an underground roentgenizdat, or x-ray press, which is akin to the samizdat that was the notorious tradition of self-publication among banned writers in the USSR."
If I may indulge my pun-ny self: how hip!!
Wow! How'd they do that??
"...enterprising young people with technical skills learned to duplicate records with a converted phonograph that would "press" a record using a very unusual material for the purpose; discarded x-ray plates. This material was both plentiful and cheap, and millions of duplications of Western and Soviet groups were made and distributed by an underground roentgenizdat, or x-ray press, which is akin to the samizdat that was the notorious tradition of self-publication among banned writers in the USSR."
If I may indulge my pun-ny self: how hip!!
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- groups:
- Entertainment, Music, WTF, Random
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- tags:
- Entertainment, Music, WTF, Not News, 8 more
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- credits:
- David Menconi posted the link in his blog at the News & Observer
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josh_rotbert
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hahaha amazing! what an interesting fact.
people can be so resourceful when their creativity and musicality are suppressed! - 3 years ago
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josh_rotbert
