Road Cases

NO AMPLIFED SOUND!?
We were doing a small, yearly festival in a parking lot by the beach in Port Hueneme, California, and one of my guys couldn’t resist taking this picture. We had surf bands, rock bands, country bands... You name it for two days, and it was sponsored by the city. D’oh!

All the best,
Bob Spittle
Entertainment Technology
Ventura, California


A TOTAL GEAR-HEAD!
This was in 1972. I worked with a high school friend at a company called Steamer Sound.We made guitar and PA speakers mostly, but also did sound jobs. The one shown here was also being taped for radio broadcast.

The black box the one guy is wearing is my attempt at an “isolation booth” - it had a three-layer window, a pair of fans to bring in air, and hatchways to reach in and adjust the headphones. This allowed two separate mixes.

Pictured left to right: Jim Hattis, the keyboard player of our band; Me (Tom Danley), at the mix board with the headphones; Gordon Kapes, wearing the box (and being crushed under the weight); and T.C. Furlong, a friend from high school and the fellow I worked for at Steamer.

Cheers,
Tom Danley, Sound Physics Labs



Editor’s Note: These two items are posted on the fun page at ProSoundWeb.com. Much more audio-related (and other) humor can be found there as well.



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