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   From: detritus@ix.netcom.com   
      
   Patrick Turner wrote:   
      
   > On Jul 10, 11:17 pm, Lord Valve wrote:   
   > > Patrick Turner wrote:   
   > > > nobody had anything electrical,   
   > > > ( except for a few rich bastards in the royal court in Vienna   
   > > > where Mozart recorded his music.   
   > >   
   > > ...   
   > >   
   > > To my knowledge, Mozart never recorded jack shit - there was nothing to   
   > > do it with in the late 1700s. If you mean by "recording" that he wrote it   
   out   
   > > on staff paper with a pen, sure.   
   > >   
   > > Lord Valve   
   > > Musician   
   >   
   > Well of course Jack Shit wasn't ever going to get recorded. He had a   
   > terrible voice, and couldn't sing in tune like so many other dull   
   > bland and poor cousins and unkels in the Mozart family. Young   
   > "Moatzie" had influential friends who were geniuses like himself, so   
   > they did DIY electricity etc, etc, and they had a little recording   
   > studio with digital effects in the backroom of a wealthy idiot Prince   
   > of Vienna, with more dough than sense. But outside this little "in"   
   > grope, nobody ever found out that they were up to, so 30 years passed   
   > without anyone knowing anything much different, and mean while some   
   > Sturgeon fella was farnarkling around with primitive batteries, copper   
   > wire, and nails and stuff, doing it the hard way. After "Moatzie"   
   > karked it at 35, there were umpteen European wars and revolutions, and   
   > the palace where "little room of tricks" was burnt to the ground, and   
   > the dudes who did the early recording gear lost lives after joining   
   > armies because they wandered around paddocks so absentmindedly trying   
   > to think up a better computer.   
   >   
   > History is so unkind and unforgivable.   
   >   
   > Patrick Turner.   
      
   You were just wrong. Shut up.   
      
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