Subj : Re: 'Guilty pleasures'
To   : DON DESCHAMPS
From : Martin Ridgley
Date : Thu Nov 02 2000 08:01 am

-=> DON DESCHAMPS wrote to MARTIN RIDGLEY <=-

 **> re: "Downtown" by Petula Clark...
 MR> ...I still *love* that song!   ;-)   In fact, it's probably
 MR> still one of my favourite songs of the sixties.

 DD> Bet you didn't know she did stuff in French too.  She was quite
 DD> a hit here in Quebec way back when.

   Actually yeah, I did know that.  I seem to recall that she married 
 a Frenchman and moved to France back in the late '60s or early '70s, 
 and that she had a number of hits there, too.

 DD> I'll have to dig through my 45 case and see what moldy oldies I have
 DD> in there.  Probably all in pretty poor condition as I used to carry
 DD> them around to parties where they got played on all sorts of
 DD> terrible phonos.

   Yeah, that was the case with a lot of mine, too.  Most of those badly
 worn ones are gone now, but I kept a small box of favourites that are
 still in pretty decent condition.

 DD> just bought myself a "vintage" Gibson Falcon amp. Single 12" speaker
 DD> with 2 6BQ5 tubes. Reverb and tremolo. Haven't had a chance to really
 DD> "wring" it out yet. First shot at it it sounded pretty good. Needs a
 DD> little cleaning up.

   Cool.  I'm really not all that familiar with guitar amps and I don't
 know that model.  I need an amp though, and I'm currently keeping my
 eyes on the local Buy & Sell papers for something along those lines
 (i.e. tubes, single 10" or 12", reverb, etc.).

     Martin
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