This week on the Big Show, I guess we could talk and play into a big horn in the studio here in Omaha, by God, Nebraska . . . but I'm betting it'd sound bad and you wouldn't hear anything very well.
So we're using the electrical process, instead.
That means we're enunciating into a professional RCA broadcast microphone and using the best in audio and phonographic technology to bring to you the finest in musical entertainment on 3 Chords & the Truth. On the other hand, a fair amount of the music you will hear on this week's edition of the program predates the best in audio and phonographic technology.
Yes, some of these folks in the mid-1920s were speaking and singing into large horns in the studio which, in turn, wiggled a little stylus into a wax master recording. If you wanted microphonic amplification, you would have to go -- wait for it -- on the radio.
NO, I don't know what that was supposed to mean. Uh . . . it's viva but it is also tonal.
All I know is I want a little drink. Oh. . . .
1925. Damn.
But I digress. The point to this week's edition of the Big Show is that we're getting as far away from 2017, musically and zeitgeist-wise, as we possibly can without hiring a colonial band of fiddlers to drop in at your residence to play some Virginia reels for you.
That's the deal. And we're going back, in some cases, to 1925 and big recording horns in recording studios to do it.
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| Victor studio, Camden, N.J. -- 1925 |
WE'LL HEAR one of those, and we'll tell you what the record radio announcer went on to do not long after he was announcing records . . . on the actual record.
And as crazy a notion as this is, it's no match for modern times. So there's that.
So, vo vo oh de oh do and twenty-three skidoo, everything's jake on the Big Show. But don't get zozzled. That would be against the law.
It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.
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