Thursday, July 30, 2009
Rush's voice remix
I tuned in Rush this morning for the first time since the election, only to find that he's doing some kind of adolescent pitch-changing crap to all Democrat voices. Apparently he's been doing this for a while now.
I enjoyed this sort of thing when I was about 7 years old: I used to take the center out of 45 RPM records and let them play all warpy, or play 33s at 78, or use my finger to turn the record backwards. Big fun. Make people sound weird. Stopped being funny when I was about 9.
Undoubtedly Rush will develop some fancy post-modern reason for this activity, involving irony and parody, but it only gives me an excellent reason to turn him off again and leave him off.
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Purely personal note: The blue 45 in this picture reminds me of why I disliked Rush in the first place, even though I ended up listening to him for a long time. My uncle was a DJ in Kansas City for many years. He knew I liked classical music, so he gave me a huge pile of classical 45s (including this unique translucent blue record of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) when his station switched from part-classical to all-pop around 1959. In later years my uncle developed a format and an audience for local talk. Then in 1983 the managers abruptly fired him, deciding to gamble on a young firebrand from Cape Girardeau. You'd think the young firebrand would show some gratitude to the man who plowed the field for his crop, but no. Rush has often derided his KC predecessors, calling them losers. ¶ 10:12 AM
I enjoyed this sort of thing when I was about 7 years old: I used to take the center out of 45 RPM records and let them play all warpy, or play 33s at 78, or use my finger to turn the record backwards. Big fun. Make people sound weird. Stopped being funny when I was about 9.
Undoubtedly Rush will develop some fancy post-modern reason for this activity, involving irony and parody, but it only gives me an excellent reason to turn him off again and leave him off.
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Purely personal note: The blue 45 in this picture reminds me of why I disliked Rush in the first place, even though I ended up listening to him for a long time. My uncle was a DJ in Kansas City for many years. He knew I liked classical music, so he gave me a huge pile of classical 45s (including this unique translucent blue record of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) when his station switched from part-classical to all-pop around 1959. In later years my uncle developed a format and an audience for local talk. Then in 1983 the managers abruptly fired him, deciding to gamble on a young firebrand from Cape Girardeau. You'd think the young firebrand would show some gratitude to the man who plowed the field for his crop, but no. Rush has often derided his KC predecessors, calling them losers. ¶ 10:12 AM
