Love all the 2600 Hz tones! :)
Oh freunde, nicht dies tone! I hope that you're referencing the magazine. It's actually named for the tone, though I'm sure anybody familiar with it already knows that.
I'm well aware of both.
Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified
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#42I remember when the album was released and bought a copy. Much was made at the time that this was a real call: one of the PF guys (don’t remember who) told a friend in the UK that if they received a call from “Mr Floyd to Mrs Floyd” just hang up. The genius part was the the real phone operator quickly tweaked onto the fact that the call was to Mrs Floyd, who should have been alone, but a man answered…
That was a real operator? I can grimly imagine someone calling the phone company to locate her so she can agree to appear on the published record. "No, we made a call an hour or so ago. I'd like to speak to the same operator who placed the collect for us please."
It was a real call, but staged.
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#43If you're into vintage telephone network sounds (and some really excellent technical descriptions of phone phreaking) take some time to listen to Evan Doorbell's recordings: https://www.evan-doorbell.com/ I grew up in the tail end of analog switches near my home. I remember the sounds of making phone calls changing over a few years. They became a lot less interesting and a lot more uniform. The sounds you'd hear call…
I'm a friend of Evan Doorbell. :)
I really appreciate the work that he's done with documenting and narrating his tapes and curating the work of others. I've learned so much about the telephone network of yore from his recordings and, very specifically, about the sounds of the network that I remember from my youth. (I also get a big kick out of Dom Tuffy...)
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#44If you're into vintage telephone network sounds (and some really excellent technical descriptions of phone phreaking) take some time to listen to Evan Doorbell's recordings: https://www.evan-doorbell.com/ I grew up in the tail end of analog switches near my home. I remember the sounds of making phone calls changing over a few years. They became a lot less interesting and a lot more uniform. The sounds you'd hear call…
Just spent over an hour listening to these and I've only scratched the surface. Absolutely fascinating, thanks for sharing!
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#45I worked as an electronic tech back repairing 4/5ESS switches. Those things were built like tanks.
Oh nice! Did you ever work on crossbar switches?
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#46Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight: https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/ WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site. We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.). I love the band. Pink Fl…
> I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), I gotta respectfully disagree . Meddle was peak Floyd for me. The whole album is a transporting experience, including IMO the best Gilmour guitar solo ever.
My introduction to Pink Floyd started (late 70s) with Dark Side, and worked its way backwards.
"A Saucer Full of Secrets" and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" - collected together as "A Nice Pair" - was the peak for me.
I like "Animals" and "Welcome to the Machine". I respect "The Wall" as an artistic piece. But it's not an album I ever bought or had a strong desire to listen to.
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#48James Guthrie made the call back to his residence as a joke to create the basis of the call to incorporate it into the album. I was told by his ex-fiance in 2009 when I met her while doing computer work for her father. He was playing a prank and called himself Mr. Floyd and the recipient wasn't having it.