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1989: The Aspri Reverb is introduced. They are great + you should buy one.

Above: the 1989 advert that caught my attention I've said it many times, but pls let me re-iterate: as much…

11 years ago

New Video: PSV006: Create Your Tools, Create Your World

A few years back, I wrote a short piece regarding Canadian scholar and author Marshall McLuhan.  One of MM's most…

11 years ago

Some Weirdo Amps of The 80s

Nothing too heavy today, just some oddball 80's amps that crossed my plane of perception. Above: "Vibration Technology" (catchy!) of…

11 years ago

Sequential Circuits Synths of the early 80’s

Above: Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Remote Prophet, and Poly Sequencer c.1982.  Below: period adverts for the Pro-One and Prophet 5.  We…

11 years ago

Please someone explain this advert to me

I really can't figure this one out.  So there's a ghost who sings in a band.  He (she?) rides a…

11 years ago

The AMR “System 1” 4-track cassette recorder of 1986

Goddamn!  Would you look at that thing!  Peavey built and sold a small number of these US-made uber-4-tracks in the…

11 years ago

‘Tude

Oh stop.  'Tude.  What is it, and why does it matter?  'Tude, which is, rather reflexively, a "bad-attitude"-driven abbreviation of…

11 years ago

October is 80’s Month At PS Dot Com

How y'all doing this fine day...  it is sunny+beautiful in Southern CT today, although between the 'federal government shutdown' and…

11 years ago

Check out this great website: ‘Retrothing dot com’

Above: "The Drumssette."  (Source) I was doing some research for our upcoming series of 80's-themed posts (since 'Speaker-weeks' seemed to…

11 years ago

Fostex Transducer Line c. 1981- complete catalog download

Download an 8pp catalog/poster with specs on every Fostex cone, compression, and super-tweeter driver, and their cast and wooden radial…

11 years ago