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I wonder if anyone has claimed the RE-27 microphone Imus was using on WFAN.

Guess he won't be using it.

A few years ago they traded out an RE-20, seen below, reportedly because he mumbled so much. The '27 is a bit brighter on the top end, not that you'd want to have him all that clear anyway.

I always thought the RE20 made a good kick drum mic.

nah, yer basic 421 handles it better

garage bands use SM57

I wonder if anyone got his chair. He won't be using that too. Or the mic boom or the cord. Oh, wait. CBS probably owns all that stuff, so it won't go anywhere. ::)

Eww,
I wouldn't want the chair.
Even the mic lacked a spit guard.
I sold ZRF the 421 that TimTron once belched into.

Nope, we used an SM58 on our Drummer's bass/kick drum.  I know a lot of people like SM57s.  For vocals - uh uh, give me my personal SM58 any day.  I always found SM57s to be too midrangey for vocals.  I think they're only OK for guitar.  But a guy we usually hired to do sound for us, was lazy - he never was on the ball, with jacking me up, when I did solos.  Also, he would set the sound kind of thin out of the PA.  After we hired a guy (who did sound on the side - his main music gig of all things, was playing in a death metal band) to do sound for us, and used direct boxes for our guitars, that had speaker cabinet simulation cicuitry built into them (they sounded pretty good), I ended up going to a guitar direct box.  Still, in a pinch, SM57s are decent all around mics.

73,
Ellen - AF9J
Guitarist at large

Why? It's just a chair.

I wasn't a real fan of Imus but a black reporter got it right on nbc this morning
Al S. and Jessey are a couple of jerks looking to get on the news spreading their hate. How about that rap music crap sung by who? Clesn your own house first!

Care to guess how many times that old buzzard farted into it?

What? Are you going to put your face in it?

Well, now that I know its (the 421) history I'll have it bronzed.

Maybe that'll take away that tell tale odor I've been wondering about........ :o

I won't even speculate on the gooey residue that resembled snot that was all over the black cloth located beneath the metal screen of a D-104 I once picked up at a hamfest.

I took the thing apart and cleaned all the parts before I attempted to use it.

Guy calling himself "Will The Farter" appeared on the Stern show. Lots of close-in miking going on. I wonder where that SM58 is now.

(http://www.willthefarter.com/WebImages/will.jpg)

That's disgusting.

DON'T even go there.  Eeew!!

Ellen - AF9J

And someone buying a chair Imus farted into for 5 years isn't disgusting?   ;D

Gaseous dialogue going on here.

Somewhat elevating the discussion...   After a really good dry cleaning I wouldn't mind getting the hat.  Wonder if it ever saw the real side of a ranch.

FYI         Imus Ranch


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3359675/




klc

BTW as a Gen Xer I have a question.  Why did Imus always walk around looking he was some hippie burnout?  I would assume that he realized that poeple who look like that often aren't taken seriously?

Ellen - AF9J
Who saw lots of hippie burnouts at her alma mater, the Univ. of Wisconsin (a very Left Wing school)

This whole thread STINKS! Phewww...Alright who farted?

 :-X :o

You know, if Imus had only joked about some greasy blond haired sluts from Bayonne, he'd still be on the air.

"looking  he was some hippie burnout"


Well, he was/is.....  nose candy and vodka .....    (he also fell of a horse)     klc

Ahhhhhhhh that's right!,

I forgot, some people are still caught up in the "let's do coke" 70s.  I guess for them, the song "Life in the Fast Lane" by the Eagles, is an anthem. Thanks for the insight.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

if he was black, he'd still be on the air.

Opps....  I left out the part about he's been clean for 20+ yrs .... ..      klc

No Problem.  :)  Still, he does look like he's lost in the late 60s or 70s.  Somebody on one of the local talk radio shows (Mark Belling), said that Imus might end up back on the  air, on some no name station that needs ratings, or (on an outside chance) satellite radio.  BTW, guys who lambasted him like Sharpton & Jackson ought to talk.  I've never been a big fan of Imus, and what he said was uncalled for, but at least he's apologised.  Can you say the same about some of those high priced rap & hip-hop losers like Jay Z, and LL Cool J, who describe black women in their songs the same way, in just about every other verse?  Sharpton & Jackson don't go after them.  Also, why don't these two very same self appointed morality policemen apologise, for making life bad for those lacrosse players from Duke, with their rants about how they were obviously guilty of a crime that turned out to be made up?
 
Ellen - AF9J

Tawana Brawley.  ::)

It's not as if Imus career was being nipped in the bud here. He was apparently quite the superstar on the early 70s NYC radio scene, but given the tiny audience who find his current senile mumblings entertaining, I think he's about due to retire anyway. The "nappy headed ho's" utterance was typical of the show's continual desperate attempts to be hip and current.

Joseph Pujol was a colorful Frenchman who, under the stage name "Le Pétomane" (which sort of translates into 'The Fartist'), became one of the most celebrated entertainers of the late 19th century farting his way to fame and riches.

Le Pétomane was unique. He exercised deft control over the muscles in his abdomen and sphincter in order to break wind at will, and--most impressively--in musical notes. His celebrated anal act consisted mainly of songs and impressions. He could only produce four tones naturally (do, re, mi and the octave do), but augmented his talents by using a flute affixed to an enema tube. Le Pétomane's "pièce de resistance," however, came from smoking a cigarette and extinguishing a candle--all with the power of his turbulent arse.
 
le pétomane du Moulin Rouge (http://www.ooze.com/ooze13/petomane.html)

It's all sort of proto-Howard Stern, but I read once that the 1893 Columbian Exposition had someone who could f*rt the Star Spangled Banner. 

Now that really paints a picture!

I am no fan of Imus but this hypocrytical circus makes me angry.I have heard worse out of the mouths of Jamie Fox,Criss Rock and Eddie Murphy in thier stand up comedy that I watched on TV.What about all the language in this rap music on mtv.It is a lot worse than what Imus said.   I hear a lot of talk of equality but what I am seeing is white equality, black equality.hispanic equality,red equality,ect.What I would like to see is equal equality,but that is impossible to obtain swimming in this sespool of political correct BS.