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RIP Trugoy the Dove - founding memeber of De la Soul. A big part of my youth listening and still, occansionally, now. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/13/david-jolicoeur-founding-member-of-de-la-soul-dies-aged-54

Folkways purist daughter is home for the holidays so ther's going to be a lot of this sort of stuff in the next week. No complaints from my side!

Tonights playlist RIP Terry :(

What, no love for "Valhalla Avenue" or " Lost in the Former West"?  Actually all of it. I DJ'd in Maritzburg, of all places, in the early 90's and  "Only losers take the bus" was a floor filler I stand corrected but wasn't it John Peel who said he could listen to Cathal sing the phone book?

RIP Cathal Coughlan. I can remember so clearly the first time I heard Microdisney on Neil Johnson's show-I've been a fan ever since. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/23/cathal-coughlan-frontman-with-irish-indie-bands-microdisney-and-fatima-mansions-dies-aged-61

My all time favourite too.

Sorry not a great photo. But that price of R12! - They were simpler times

Not their best but still better than most!

This is a different model from the SL-10 which used a very pricy and discontinued 310MC stylus.  If your Panasonic still has the stock cartridge it uses the EPS 25CS stylus which you can get here: https://www.turntableguy.co.za/product/national-eps-25cs-k91/ I bought my SL-N15 in 1986 and it's...

RIP Betty Davis the queen of raw funk https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/09/betty-davis-funk-artist-music-dies-77 and if you havent heard her before, check this amazing slice of joyousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyzxs1De1Mo

RIP to one of the altime queens of perfect pop. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/12/ronnie-spector-pop-singer-who-fronted-the-ronettes-dies-aged-78

Almost. As I remember it you swiched the zone on which would play music in that zone. You then switched on the intercom function which made the speaker in that zone work as a microphone. To speak to that zone you held down a talk button.

We had one of these when I was a kid - not sure of it was a pilot one though. If I remember rightly it just used the remote speakers as the microphones. Their state was determined by the mode of the radiogram (eg: Radio mode meant that the speakers functioned  as remote speakers and then...

Sounds like the turntable input is set for a crystal pickup. There's a small switch next to the input - make sure it is on the L settng.