Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Jim Holsenback wrote:
> 
>> Hey I knew that .... was a roadie in my youth ;-) 
> 
> This has always bothered me... What the heck is a "roadie"?!
> 

The guys who put up all the stuff at the stage when some band is
performing live?

-Aero

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Jim Holsenback wrote:
> 
>> Hey I knew that .... was a roadie in my youth ;-) 
> 
> This has always bothered me... What the heck is a "roadie"?!
> 


Being a "roadie" is an American hobby/pastime similar in spirit to a 
combination of traveler and stamp collector.  The idea is that one 
collects pictures of themselves standing on or alongside some as diverse 
and far spread a range of American roads as possible.  Most often these 
photos are hung up on a large map of the US pinned to the location they 
were taken, but some people opt to make standard photo albums or 
whatever instead.

Sometimes people will opt to have a theme to these trips, such as 
visiting roads mentioned in songs (eg. route 66), or roads that have 
some particular historical significance (a popular one being to cover as 
many of the places visited by John `Roadie the Red' Bakerfield as 
possible in one month).  I suspect it's stuff Jim learned on or for such 
a trip that he was referring to.

Anyway, it probably sounds a bit odd to you British folk, but that's 
what you get when you have a country with highways that stretch almost 
uninterrupted for thousands of miles!

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Another entry in the realm of fascinating devices. Granted, it's not as 
> epic as a pipe organ. It was designed to imitate a pipe organ, to a degree.
> 
> The Hammond Organ.
> 
> And how does it work? Spinning metal wheels. That's right, metal wheels 
> with a wave pattern cut into them spinning near a pick-up. How cool is 
> that?

That is indeed very cool.  I really enjoy relatively low-tech solutions 
like that.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> This has always bothered me... What the heck is a "roadie"?!

In this context, someone who works for a band but doesn't perform, doing the 
grunt work of setting up and taking down stages and sets, moving amplifiers 
and speakers about, and basically making sure the band gets from place to 
place on the road. Hence the name.  I interpreted "I was a roadie" to 
indicate Mike had seen such an instrument while working for a band that used 
one?

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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Kevin Wampler wrote:

> That is indeed very cool.  I really enjoy relatively low-tech solutions 
> like that.

I prefered the mechanical Fourier transform, personally... ;-)

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:49417fe9$1@news.povray.org...
> This has always bothered me... What the heck is a "roadie"?!

set up equipment, troubleshoot problems, pack it up, go to next town, do it 
all over again.

have you ever heard Jackson Browns roadie song .... stay just a little bit 
longer?

Jim

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Jim Holsenback wrote:

> have you ever heard Jackson Browns roadie song .... stay just a little bit 
> longer?

God damnit, NOW I HAVE THAT SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD! >_<

Still, I guess it makes a change from Propane Nightmares which I've had 
for the last week and a half...

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And lo On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:54:15 -0000, Mike Raiford  
<"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:

> Another entry in the realm of fascinating devices. Granted, it's not as  
> epic as a pipe organ. It was designed to imitate a pipe organ, to a  
> degree.
>
> The Hammond Organ.
>
> And how does it work? Spinning metal wheels. That's right, metal wheels  
> with a wave pattern cut into them spinning near a pick-up. How cool is  
> that?

'It's Wednesday night and you know what that means - it's Amateur Hammond  
Organ Recital Night. Take it away Skutters!'

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> God damnit, NOW I HAVE THAT SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD! >_<

haha .... better than some stupid commercial jingle right?

> Still, I guess it makes a change from Propane Nightmares which I've had 
> for the last week and a half...

glad I could help ..... ;-)

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Jim Holsenback wrote:

>> Still, I guess it makes a change from Propane Nightmares which I've had 
>> for the last week and a half...
> 
> glad I could help ..... ;-) 

Somehow "Help me Holsenback" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Help 
my Rhonda"...



...oh, wait... NOOOO!!! >_<

Now I have to put up with *that* for an hour! Damn, having a brain 
disorder is no fun! :-(

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