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Post by Ian West on Nov 25, 2003 19:38:07 GMT
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Post by Gareth R on Nov 26, 2003 14:07:27 GMT
Be interesting to see how much this goes for...
Those old open-reel machines can go for ludicrously high prices on eBay, despite the fact that they're almost guaranteed to be non-functional and requiring vital parts that are decades out of production and can only be obtained by cannibalising other similar machines!
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Post by Andy Henderson on Nov 26, 2003 22:41:13 GMT
Most buyers don't realise how heavy these machines are!!!! I was amazed at the weight of the one I saw a few years back.
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Post by Gary C on Dec 16, 2003 5:11:25 GMT
.................they went for just over a hundred quid!!
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Post by William Martin on Dec 16, 2003 10:23:56 GMT
sounds about right, they have become expensive recently
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Post by Gareth R on Dec 16, 2003 15:46:29 GMT
That's a lot to pay for doorstops, though - which is what you'll have bought if they're broken (highly likely) and you don't have the technical expertise and spare parts (especially heads and motors, which are usually rarer than rocking horse excrement) to get them working again!
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Post by dubs on Dec 16, 2003 18:58:29 GMT
Not even that Gareth, its the sodding rubber drive-bands which perish after 20 or so years that I found the real buggers.
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Post by Bob Shibaden on Dec 16, 2003 19:02:01 GMT
Great that so many old machines from the 1960s are around though. Increases chances of more old tapes turning up!
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Post by Simon Mclean on Dec 16, 2003 22:14:31 GMT
But how many of them were actually used for domestic purposes?
One that turned up on eBay recently had previously been used to record the output of a bank's security camera - you even got a free tape of the bank's customers going about their business with it!
I'm sure there's laws against that sort of thing, you know.....
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Post by dubs on Dec 17, 2003 0:02:34 GMT
My God that machine must have taken a pounding, never mind the odd hour or so of schols broadcasts - but a day's surveillance!
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Post by William Martin on Dec 17, 2003 16:12:40 GMT
yes but genuine 60s customers!
I'm sure someone would like that; maybe, or possibly not
what you want is a survelance camera in a tv show room, lots of tvs showing live programs
back to relaity
roughly how many vtrs were there in the 60s? or how many have turned up with recordings and how many tapes per machine?
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Post by Ricardo01 on Dec 19, 2003 4:10:02 GMT
Probably not a lot in private hands considering the price.
I remember the open reel machines during my high school days during the early 1970's.Had a special cart to haul it around.
Did a search awhile back on VCR's for sale in the Toronto Star. About 27 years ago today, they were being promoted for Xmas sale at a leading department store at $1,699 plus the tax of another $150. At a time when you could buy a mid-size Canadian car for under $5,000 and $12,000 was considered a pretty good middle class salary.Canadian dollar was roughly equivalent to US dollar. Someone told me that he was paying $25 for a two hour blank video tape in the late 70's...
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Post by William Martin on Dec 19, 2003 14:08:35 GMT
no not a lot, but look on the bright side if you could afford to spend that sort of money, the price of tapes probably wouldn't be much of a problem. I may have asked you this before but do you remember a CBC program called "where it's at" or something similar, Guess Who were on it a lot I heard this mentioned on sounds of the sixties on radio 2 a while ago you can listen to the most recent edition here www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/sounds60s/playlist.shtml |
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Post by Ricardo01 on Dec 21, 2003 3:56:57 GMT
...rings a bell..."The Guess Who" clips from the late 60'sseem to pop up pretty frequently with Randy Bachman at about 160 pounds and Burton Cummings looking 12 years old and Joey's Ramone's younger brother..honestly, the CBC archives seem in relatively good shape considering the horror stories that I've read here... ...seemed to remember more rock bands on the commer CTV network...I remember "After Four" on CFTO in Toronto but those tapes, if they were ever made, are long gone... Here's a blurb about Where Its At.... www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/W.htmlWhere It's At Mon-Fri 5:30-6:00 p.m., 30 Sep 1968-23 Jun 1969 A successor to Music Hop and Let's Go, Where It's At featured current popular and rock music in an after-school, before-supper time slot, and originated in a different city each weekday. Ken Gibson produced the Vancouver edition, which was hosted by Fred Latremouille. The Winnipeg show, produced by Larry Brown, provided an early, national outlet for the Guess Who (Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, and Gary Peterson) who appeared regularly. Allan Angus produced the Toronto show, with host Jay Jackson and the Majestics. Robert Demontigny introduced the Montreal show, which Ed Mercel produced. In Halifax, Paul Baylis produced and Frank Cameron was the host; guests included Anne Murray and Truro's band, the Lincolns, which included Frank MacKay and John Gray, who would later write about the band for his play, Rock And Roll, and the television adaptation, The King Of Friday Night. The shows from Montral, Toronto, and Winnipeg were produced in colour, and from Vancouver and Halifax in living black and white. |
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Post by William Martin on Dec 22, 2003 17:25:03 GMT
thanks for that
very interesting, I have heard a little about the program, and it would be interesting to see some, I wish I had more contact with the vast number of relatives I have in Canada as they could undoubtedly help me, but the family lost contact with them in the late 1700s/early 1800s (anyway about 200 years ago) and the trails gone a wee bit cold by now.
we can get a bit insular in the uk(I need hardly say that this does not apply to the members of this forum we are all open minded) and forget that there are many other pop programs from many other countries perhaps only 4 1/2 episodes of top of the pops survive but , as members of this forum already do, we can look to other sources of material like the German "beat club" et.c
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