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I found a photo of me from LIFE magazine. I recorded the Jammy Awards a live concert, at Madison Square Garden about two hours of wax cylinders. These cylinders are lost, somewhere in New York. http://www.life.com/image/3102287

And of course, they call it a "gramophone". The media NEVER gets it right. Ever.

Maplesoning it, eh? So what did happen to the cylinders? It's not very easy to lose 2 hours worth of cylinders just like that (that's like 60 cylinders ).

New Owner wrote:Maplesoning it, eh? So what did happen to the cylinders? It's not very easy to lose 2 hours worth of cylinders just like that (that's like 60 cylinders ).

Shouldn't be in this day and age, I wonder about that, too.

Shady business partner? record industry mafioso? Questions, questions...

Yes, it was a business partner kept the cylinders, he died of cancer and the records are lost. I was promised all those cylinders transcribed to digital and sent back to me but later found a bunch of things that I would rather not talk about. I don't know why I let this happen, I got a lot better transcriptions myself. I have a few of the lost cylinders on CD, before I left about 3 hours worth, but not the last concert or Madison. Those are going to very valuable cylinders when they do turn up. There are about 300 total live cylinders. There are a few live cylinders on my old myspace. The Crazy Baby cylinder is recorded live at a concert, This one is an very good loud recording, it has one blast though. The amount of problems of a live concert recording are numerous. I am going to have to find some place to upload the few cylinder records, I managed to transcribe, perhaps on youtube soon. I think the Crazy baby is one of the quietest recording blanks I had made, at that time and the strange thing it was a pink wax. I need to edit this page with the Borri Audio Laboratories information, it still under the old name. I wonder If I am the first recent persons to take an Edison Phonograph to a concert and record? I used to bring between 30 and 70 blanks to a concert to record. The last concert was a Bob Dylan and Other Ones concert , I never even got to hear the results of these cylinders, which is sad because the start and end of each cylinder was stereophonic. I used two phonographs, so I would not miss anything, and I started the second machine, a few seconds before the other one ended, the idea behind this was to make a continuous CD and have stereo sound at the start and end of each cylinder.



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