Just a Thought and Question about DV

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It's funny about D-V. Of course I "found" them because they started reissuing the easy listening quads, and even though I am not a big easy listening guy, I bought most of them because they were surround and frankly, they were extremely affordable.

But, I digress. Back in 1971 my father bought a Dodge Challenger (!!), which was very cool BTW, but it actually came with a cassette deck in the car. As I recall it sorta sat on the drive sharft hump and stuck up. Anyway, it came with an RCA demo tape. I have always been into music, and of course played in the High School Band, and my parents were always playing Jazz and stuff, so I had a good musical background with regard to different types of music. Anyway, on that demo cassette was a pile of crappy tunes, but one tune stood out to me and that was Peter Nero playing "Mame". Now, it's not my kind of tune, and Peter Nero is not someone I follow(ed), but that mix and piano work stood out to me as very cool, almost Vince Guaraldi like (not really, but in a jazz piano kind of way) and that was the tune I would play in that car when I was in it. So time goes by, the quad stuff happens, and I kept looking for that tune on a quad Peter Nero LP, but no. Then I forgot about it. Then a year or so ago I remembered it and Googled it to see what album it was from. And there it was, on a D-V two-fer! So I ordered it! And again, it was the only tune I listened to on that CD, but to me it was worth the $12 or so I paid for it just for that tune.

So thanks Michael for putting out great stuff, for embracing surround SACDs, and for being there when most everyone else has bailed out on us. Good job and keep going. We love it!

EDIT - I found a 1971 Challenger interior picture with the funky cassette player on the hump. I don't think my Dad's shifter looked like this one though, at least I don't remember it looking like this:

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1971 Dodge Challenger: Such a cool car. It's American Car Day in February each year near my place so I can stand on the corner and watch millions of dollars (and tens of millions of hours restorative work) roll by.

I also used to stand (no seat belts back then) on the drive shaft tunnel in the back seat of my dad's 1977 XC Ford Falcon when I was a kid and lean over the front bench seat. Got told to sit back about a million times but still managed to wear out the carpet slipping off it when dad would take a corner.

I had my eye on a 71 Challenger but decided to do up my 1980 MK2 Ford Escort instead. Three years into the restoration now and it'll hopefully be ready for British Car Day, also in Feb and right around the corner (unless it's raining cos it's never getting wet again! - car guys will know what I'm talking about).

Back on topic: I've recently made by first DV order (Poco) but I know I'm gonna have to trawl through their store and pick out some others. Probably once the Escort's done and the money hemorrhage has been stemmed.
 
just be glad DV don't do DVDA..! :eek:
DVDA seems a natural choice for a quad mix...

I'll see myself out.

(although I think Matt and Trey's recordings under that name are pretty great, and they should put out a proper album of them sometime - I don't think there's even a professionally recorded version of "Chewbacca.")
 
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