Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96 Nov 1, 2008
With his loud laugh and raspy voice, plus his inept fumbles with his tape recorder, he set his subjects at ease and tugged from them memories, predictions and simple truths about their everyday existence. Terkel transcribed and edited the interviews, then compiled them into books that were at once intimate and sweeping, among them "Division Street," "Hard Times," "Working," and "The Good War," which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. (Los Angeles Times)
Bitter fruit Oct 31, 2008
Nicholls reportedly attempted to smash the journalist's tape recorder before locking himself in the bathroom for 90 minutes. "Yes, well, that wasn't great," Rosser concedes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pressure points: athletes feel the heat of competition Oct 30, 2008
Take this into consideration: what if every time you took a test, you had a reporter standing by with a tape recorder and camera, only to replay how you did for the entire media to comment on. What if every time you wrote a paper, a member of the media wrote a cruel editorial on the quality of your work. (The Suffolk Journal, MA)
'Legally' bonded Oct 26, 2008
"Like Mel Brooks whistling into a tape recorder.". Benjamin also wrote, acted, and did everything else Hasty Pudding allowed. (Boston Globe)
'Martha Mitchell Calling' is a show of force Oct 21, 2008
She dictates her memoirs to a tape recorder, chats with friends and reporters on that pink phone, yells at the TV screen - and, through it all, confides in the audience with humor, wicked insight, and real pain. Miller works through every emotional register with authenticity, creating a fully rounded, irresistibly engaging, and flawed human being. (Boston Globe)
Don't Buy A Mac Laptop* Oct 11, 2008
I remember how "excited" I was to get a cassette recorder for my TRS-80 Model 1, so I could save all those BASIC programs I typed in, instead of losing them when I turned the damn thing off. Good luck kid, I hope you get your "Official Red Ryder Carbine-action 200-shot Range Model BB rifle." (aka MACtop). (Washington Post)
Malibu's Music Corner Oct 11, 2008
" It is an innate proclivity she has enriched through education and life experience.Before attending Berklee School of Music in Boston, from which she graduated in 2007, Stern was a self-taught piano player and song writer who, at the age of three, used a tape recorder to record her singing, and at the age of 11 started writing them. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, during which she attended Juan Cabrillo Elementary and Malibu High School, her musical interest became her pursuit of... (Malibu Times, CA)
Ipod doomed says Wozniak Oct 10, 2008
What they have not done, as Creative have done, is to make it a portable hi-fi system with FM radio and a recorder built in. I wouldn't be without mine and given that I can plug it into my car's sound system and have hundreds of CDs available - it is just brilliant. (Inquirer)
The day Elle Macpherson lost it Oct 5, 2008
And then I turned the tape recorder off. "How dare you,'' Elle growled alarmingly, standing up to her full height. "You had no right to ask about that. (NEWS.com.au)
Skype didn't know about security issues Oct 4, 2008
But in the tape recorder situation you mention, I do have some responsibility to look for such or secure my environment prior to having a sensitive conversation. I guess my point is that the blanket statement by Josh Silverman simply isn't true - given the China fiasco, and past instances, they don't have a great track record regarding the truth. (CNET News)
Second Cup Cafe: James Otto Oct 4, 2008
(CBS) Standing 6'5" with a frame more like a football player than an entertainer, country music newcomer James Otto's mere presence is enough to garner attention. Yet his voice is perhaps an even bigger attention grabber. Music has always been a part of Otto's life. Ever since he was a child, he was tuned into music, with a microphone and tape recorder in hand. "As long as I can possibly remember I have been obsessed with music," Otto, a CMA Award nominee, said on his . "Listening to it on the... (CBS News -- Early Show)
LETTERS: NCT, Oct. 3, 2008 Oct 4, 2008
A tape recorder didnt record it. Neither of us knows Mr. Munger, but the LA Times notes that Munger has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska. (North County Times)
* Natural born diva Sep 24, 2008
I know this is going to sound so silly on this tape recorder. I dont know all about it, but Ive seen it with a mentally handicapped girl X because I had to play a mentally handicapped girl X and, you know, somebodys having a tantrum and theyre out of their mind, and youre basically distracting them from their pain. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Local Pilot's Fatal Crash Caught On Tape Sep 24, 2008
However, they said a cockpit voice recorder revealed that crew members thought a tire blew and tried to abort the takeoff but couldn't stop the plane. The Learjet 60 shot off the end of the runway, ripped through a fence and crossed a highway before coming to rest, engulfed in flames. (NBCSandiego.com, CA)
Blown Tire May Be to Blame for Travis Barker, DJ AM Crash Sep 22, 2008
"The cockpit voice recorder went on for two hours, but the last 18 minutes were most pertinent, because those words proved that it was a tire blowout that may have caused the crash killing four people," Debbie Hersman, board member of the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C., tells PEOPLE.. "After getting their clearance from Air Traffic Control, the plane only got 80 knots on the 8,600-foot runway before the incident," she said. (People Magazine)
New station manager at the helm of Bisbees KBRP Sep 22, 2008
One of the programs he wants to institute is to put a tape recorder into the hands of the average citizen and let them go out and gather people s opinions on current and local events. Once somebody gets behind a microphone, (he or she) realizes how much fun it is and doesn t want to leave, he added. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Jurors in Simpson case hear tape of alleged robbery Sep 21, 2008
An alternate touched the top of an armoire where Riccio had hidden his audio recorder. In court again, the former NFL star faces armed robbery and kidnapping charges. (Los Angeles Times)
* Book Review: Who needs hell when you have Wyoming? Sep 21, 2008
He has a family history to tell to his eager granddaughter with her tape recorder, but the history is not the mythology of western frontiersmen she hopes to be able to pass on to her children; it is a much nastier story of a father with four families in different corners of the state, and of half-forgotten sex crimes. In his 80s Ray still cant handle it all, and neither can his granddaughter; Youd think there would have been closure by now, she observes. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
'Ghost' director's tried-and-true method is to improvise Sep 20, 2008
"I have no idea what we'll come up with when we sit down to write. Thank God I have the tape recorder, because the most inspired bits of dialogue are impossible to remember.''Brook smiles at the suggestion that she's involved in some risky business. After growing up in England and France, where her father's productions were her playgrounds, she worked as an actress for a while before turning to directing in France, earning awards in both opera and theater for productions based in her style of... (Boston Globe)
Maggie Scarf's 'September Songs' Sep 19, 2008
Scarf herself questions the almost uniform level of contentment she's encountering and mentions this to a close friend, a therapist, who tells her: "Interview me. My marriage is a mess." But when Julie and her husband, Ed, meet with Scarf and she asks them one of her stock questions: "What do you think were the smartest and dumbest moves you ever made in your life?" Ed answers, with feeling, "The smartest move I ever made in my life was marrying Julie." His wife's eyes brim with tears, and Scarf... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Downcast Phillips delivers uplifting show Sep 17, 2008
Earlier, Phillips had stood alone onstage and sang the strangely lonesome "Animals on Wheels" over nothing but the tinny instrumentation supplied by a hand-held cassette recorder. At specific intervals, Phillips would shake the recorder like a Cracker Jack box with a prize inside, and the tape would distort and stretch woozily, as if to underscore a lyric. (Boston Globe)
* Producing reality Sep 17, 2008
He stares at my tape recorder for a long moment, as if lost in thought, then he says, One should be careful about only amplifying the ecological aspects of the waterfalls. I certainly dont consider myself an eco-warrior. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Tapes offer new clues to Agatha Christie Sep 15, 2008
" And in a mystery that might have piqued the interest of one of Christie's fictional sleuths, only the final third of her life story can be heard on the recordings. "We believe that, being a frugal woman, she reused the tapes," Harward said, adding that Christie "clearly" did not feel the recordings had any historical value. Her modern-day admirers may disagree. The tapes were dictated on a reel-to-reel recorder that was abandoned in the same box with the 27 reels of tape. With an occasional... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'From My Front Porch': Author with local ties to hold book signing Sep 11, 2008
"I've never wanted to be famous but simply to do well at what I wanted to do. Many times, I would have a writing tablet or a tape recorder with me on the way to and from work, taking down ideas as they came. I then knew exactly what I wanted to write about in the evening, and sometimes, I would just do a chapter. It was like therapy for me.". A graduate of the South Carolina Area Trade School, now Denmark Technical College, Dix said she started writing at a very early age. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Hansons walk the talk – literally – on social activism Sep 10, 2008
While in South Africa and Mozambique, they recorded with a school choir and also took along a tape recorder to capture sounds from the streets. The results can be heard on The Walk on songs such as Great Divide, Been There Before and Blue Sky. (Globe and Mail)
Shoo, Fly, shoo Sep 9, 2008
Ditto the talking computer, and the tape recorder small enough to fit into the purse reporter Veronica Quaife (mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose) toted when she interviewed and began to fall in love with Brundle (Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch). This central pair sang well and were a plausible couple, though an ostensibly passionate sequence composed for a risible lovers' dialogue about each other's flesh seemed like so much dry humping on Shore's part. (Globe and Mail)
'I love Rove and would like a child' Sep 7, 2008
Jodee would record our mission on a tape recorder, then she d play it to us and we d be the angels. It was quite a sophisticated production. (NEWS.com.au)
Bill Melendez, 91; Award-Winning 'Peanuts' Animator Sep 5, 2008
Mr. Melendez spoke gibberish into a tape recorder, then played the tape at high speed. (He used the same method to record the chirping voice of the bird Woodstock. (Washington Post)
Tough as nails, but sweet inside Sep 3, 2008
"Tell me when I can talk," orders MacLaine, who then asks why I'm not using a tape recorder. The verbatim typing, I feebly explain, is a time-saver that sidesteps transcription - an explanation that propels her to address another pet peeve. (Globe and Mail)
For Anna Deavere Smith, the way is rarely 'Easy' Aug 31, 2008
"I just got very interested in the stories of people who have health issues . . . the human body. My tape recorder gives me the necessary distance to get close to people," she says, borrowing a line from photographer Mary Ellen Mark. "It allows me to sit with a stranger and to find out how they are and to hear how they dealt with the happy times and how they dealt with very difficult situations.". (Boston Globe)
In tune, tuning in: A mainstay at the local radio station and a piano tuner on the side, Muscatine's Charles Potter wears many hats (2) Aug 25, 2008
MUSCATINE, Iowa He s at most local events, tape recorder in hand, getting the scoop on the latest news ... My notebook and tape recorder are never far away ... I actually put my tape recorder in his face fully expecting a bevy of secret service agents to take me down but I lived to tell about it. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
2kool 4skool Aug 23, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008 Last Update: 09:55 AM EDT. NEW HIGH TECH FOR THE TWEEN-AGE SET. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Kelso man plans on skating to 100 and beyond Aug 18, 2008
He bought an old tape recorder at a Lower Columbia College equipment auction. He's been rolling ever since. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Jerry Wexler, record producer, dies Aug 16, 2008
"Beyond that, he really developed the role of the record producer. Jerry did a lot more than just turn on a tape recorder. He left his stamp on a lot of great music. He had a commercial ear as well as a critical ear.". Wexler was something of a paradox. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Sapto Raharjo: In harmony with gamelan Aug 9, 2008
As there was no recording studio, the arrangement had to be recorded with a tape recorder. "My friends and I used to play the drums, the angklung (a musical instrument consisting of bamboo tubes shaken to produce a sound), the guitar and the violin, all while sitting on a ping-pong table," he recalls. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
‘Pastor expresses views' (253) Aug 6, 2008
Suckers, Paper, and crayons along with a tape recorder were thrown outside in the same area. The report indicated that the vandals had likely tried to gain entry through a back door, damaging it, but were unable to make entry there. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
Longtime duo bringing hip-hop to arts center Aug 5, 2008
While growing up in Sykesville, Billy Williams and Jason Ambush would write their own rap lyrics, perform for family members and record them on a pink tape recorder with the plastic cover missing ... When Lyve and Ambush first began recording songs in fourth grade, they would rap about off-the-wall subjects and record into the pink tape recorder. (Carroll County Times)
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Mark Rutledge: Cassette tape offers a chance to stroll down memory lane Aug 2, 2008
But they gave me a portable cassette tape recorder for Christmas in 1970. About 20 years ago, I was going through some stuff and ran across the tape that came with that recorder from Sears. (The Daily Reflector)
State-of-the-art audio/visual is music to ICB Aug 1, 2008
In the era of Pink Floyd and The Who, bands he eventually called clients, Budd was the first of his classmates to purchase and master a tape recorder ... It was the demand for servicing and installing equipment like multitrack tape recorders and mixing consoles in Cincinnati s booming recording industry that drew him to the city in the late 70s. (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
Qantas inflight recorder taped over Jul 30, 2008
A bureau spokesman, Neville Blyth, said yesterday that a review of the cockpit voice recorder - which records crew conversations, radio traffic and other ambient noise - revealed that the vital moments when QF30 lost cabin pressure had been recorded over ... au/news/travel/qantas-inflight-recorder-taped-over/2008/07/29/1217097241070. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
'American Idol' auditions: You've got the makings of a star Jul 30, 2008
If you get to Hollywood, they make you get a tape recorder. Get a second opinion"I think, in ge-eral, people are better critics of themselves. If you ask your mom, and she's got a good heart, she'll tell you you're wonderful. But if you can find a music teacher, that'd be great.". (Florida Times-Union)
'Animal's People' is surreal mix of poison and plot Jul 29, 2008
The central conceit of the novel is that, Animal, one of the victims of that dreaded night, tired of Western "jarnalis" coming to the fictional town of Khaufpur to hear about the catastrophe, agrees to talk on one condition: that he be allowed to relate his story directly into a tape recorder left by a sympathetic journalist. It is a literary device that gives the novel its power because Animal's is an irrepressible, if foul-mouthed, presence that brings the novel alive. (Boston Globe)
Time for a play-off Jul 28, 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. TiVo: the box is bigger and heavier than iQ2. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Stan Rice, 83, self-taught in tennis, languages Jul 28, 2008
"He taught himself on an old-fashioned tape recorder so he could stop and start the tape," Mrs. Cooksey said. One day a week, he assisted in teaching English. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A reporter's quest to meet a ghost Jul 27, 2008
Armed with a digital camera, digital voice recorder and flashlights, we locked ourselves in the building ... It was here that the paranormal research group s voice recorder picked up the sounds of a female voice murmuring, I m cold. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Found sounds Jul 19, 2008
" David Butler used an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to digitise the collection Ms Derbyshire was well-known for favouring the use of a green metal lampshade as a musical instrument and said she took some of her inspiration from the sound of air raid sirens, which she heard growing up in Coventry in the Second World War. So what next for the 267 tapes she left behind? "The next thing that we want to do is make the archive available to everyone who wants to hear it," says David Butler. "But also... (BBC News -- Technology)
Rock Music Menu: The death and rebirth of the mixtape Jul 18, 2008
" Maniscalco hilariously nails what is hard to believe; the cassette, so prevalent just a decade ago, has gone the way of the 8-track. Displaced mainly by the advent and steady rise of the compact disc, the demise of the cassette had a most disturbing side-effect ... the end of mixtapes. For music fans, mixtapes were the best way to turn your friends on to new bands, pledge an undying devotion to a sweetheart, and set the tone for a Saturday night party. Painstakingly figuring out how to fit as... (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Ghosts at the town library Jul 17, 2008
Dick brought along his wire recorder. Most of the music was mundane until the janitor said, "Here's one you might like; it was made by a fellow named Ferdinand Lamenthe in 1921." Dick realized that this was, indeed, Jelly-Roll Morton and set up his wire recorder. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Giving voice to the villain presents quite the acting challenge Jul 16, 2008
In preparing Jones' lines, Empire director Irvin Kershner read the part into a tape recorder to give Jones a sense of the cadence and rhythm of the voice. "I thought he did a better Darth Vader voice than I did," Jones says. (USA Today)
Letters to Sunday Datebook Jul 7, 2008
Instead of loading the desired tracks into my computer, I record my CD-R's on a professional CD recorder - thus bypassing the unnecessary step (and possible errors and time) ... Also, with a pro CD recorder, there's no serial copy management, so your friends can make all the digital copies they want ... Dad didn't have a tape deck, so he set the tape recorder up in the living room near the stereo speakers and put on some records. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Demote Frenchy? Jul 4, 2008
From an internet interview not long ago, Waits when asked what s heaven for him, replied: Me and my wife on Route 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door. OK, now let s get back to The Francoeur Thing. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
They went out with a bang Jul 1, 2008
It turned out that two teenage girls had lugged a portable tape recorder to the Memphis show. There were already plenty of 1966 shows available as bootleg recordings, including a number from Tokyo in near-perfect fidelity for the era. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Spokeswoman spins no more Jun 28, 2008
At the same time, the previous iteration of the press gallery executive committee did not endear itself to Ms. Buckler and her colleagues by plunking down a tape recorder to record proceedings when they met to try to mend relations. It would be fair to say that Ms. Buckler lacked the policy depth required to brief and spin experienced reporters. (National Post)
Intelligent Ben Stein Jun 24, 2008
On the table in front of Ben Stein is a cup of herbal tea with extra honey, a tape recorder and an extendable back-scratcher. But on the proverbial table is the subject of Intelligent Design and the controversy that has surrounded Stein's latest documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. (National Post)
Summer Serial Reading: Chapter 2 Jun 20, 2008
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Queen's Bench to be Overhauled Jun 20, 2008
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Radio repairman saved collection of rare '40s recordings Jun 19, 2008
In 1946, a radio repairman named Latham Wyrick purchased a home disc recorder and began roaming the hills of Union County, Tenn ... Latham Wyrick owned two home disc recorders, one the size of a small suitcase, the other the size of a shoebox ... By the early 1950s, tape recorders were widely available, and the little recording business fell into oblivion. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Tony Schwartz, 84; helped create 1964 political 'daisy ad' Jun 17, 2008
He claimed to have created the first portable tape recorder, cobbling together parts so he could see the volume meter while the wire recorder hung from a strap on his shoulder. He built an important archive of folk music and the sounds of New York City in the post-World War II period. (Boston Globe)
Free fallin' in Philly Jun 13, 2008
Friday 13 June, 2008. The tape was Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever," and while it might be too much to label its acquisition as a life-changing event, getting that tape did enable me for the first time to have my own decent music without raiding my older sister Amy's tape collection. (Conshohocken Recorder, PA)
A personal history Jun 12, 2008
I think it's a pretty tough thing to tell your story to a complete stranger, to a police officer sitting with a tape recorder. In some cases these people were telling very detailed, very personal information, very painful stories for the first time. (Globe and Mail)
Some lady is totally over Stephen Colbert Jun 12, 2008
i.am happily expounded on the power of the Internet to anyone with a microphone or a tape recorder. Will FemiaBlack Eyed Peas founder Will. (MSNBC -- Technology)
MP3 options, from Apple to Zune Jun 8, 2008
It has a built-in FM tuner and recorder so you can record songs off the radio, or your own thoughts. Even though it's small, it has a screen so you can see what song is playing. (Boston Globe)
Pratt: 'I like songs that have a story' Jun 8, 2008
When I m on the road, I take a notebook and tape recorder. I ve written whole songs driving down the road. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Sometimes the Lord sends us an angel to help us see the light Jun 7, 2008
Guess who got assigned to load up the double-deck, reel-to-reel tape recorder, a couple of microphones, stands and enough cord to reach the front of the church ... One Saturday night Mildred took me and my tape recorder to the Christ Deliverance Pentecostal Church at the west end of Dewey Avenue ... Do you still have that tape recorder. (Kewanee Star Courier, IL)
