Our friend, Steve, is planning to come up from down south in a few weeks. When he’s here he is always pointing out the rust on vehicles, something he doesn’t see in South Carolina. I’m hoping this truck is still in our neighbor’s driveway when he gets here.
We stopped out at our friend, Brad’s, house yesterday. We volunteered to help set up his new stereo amp for him. We wired the last one and I remembered it being a bit challenges. Brad had two head lamps ready for us. I couldn’t get mine to point in the right direction so I gave up on it.
We started with his cd player, ins and outs (it has the ability to write). Brad had a Frank Zappa disc in. Then the tape deck. Brad had something with Jerry Garcia on it. Then the cord from Brad’s computer. He had some Margaret Explosion playing on his laptop. I found some “tuner” ins for his radio. This amp comes with a remote and Brad was already switching back and forth with it.
I saved the turntable for last. We plugged the wires into the “phono” ports on the amp and noticed there was no ground wire. I put a 45 on to check it out, one from Brad’s old band, “Nobody Famous.” It sounded really distorted. Brad told us he didn’t even play on the record. Peggi suggested Angel Corpus Christi’s “Bewitched” lp. It was all blown out as well. We cleaned the needle and I put on Eric Dolphy’s “Out To Lunch.” Same thing. Peggi got the manual out and read that if the turntable has no ground it needs to be plugged into one of the auxiliary ports. It dawned on all of us at the same time. We had made this same mistake last time!
As we were leaving, Brad told us he had used the homemade tomato sauce that Peggi had given him lsat year. He spread out some Triscuits in a pan, toasted them for a minute, spread the sauce on the crackers and sprinkled some cheese on top of it all before putting it back in the Microwave.
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