VIOLENT FEMMES
Violent Femmes are an American alternative rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As of 2013, they are active again. The band has performed as a trio, including singer, guitarist and songwriter Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, and primarily drummer Victor DeLorenzo. The Violent Femmes found immediate success with the release of their self-titled debut album in early 1983 featuring many of their well-known songs, including “Blister in the Sun”, “Kiss Off”, “Add It Up”, and “Gone Daddy Gone”. Since then, Violent Femmes’ popularity continued to grow, especially in the United States where the songs “Nightmares” and “American Music” cracked the top five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. (More from Wikipedia)
A couple of months ago, the Jensen turntable that I was bragging on a couple of posts back started running just a tiny bit slow. I had an inkling that this had been going on for a while, but it was pretty subtle. Well, one day, the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band rose to the top of the rescued LP stack; and when I started playing it, there was no question at all that it didn’t sound right. I took it to our local TV/audio repair store (Pass Road Tee Vee Service in Biloxi, for you locals – highly recommended; they really know their stuff, and their prices are very reasonable), and it seemed like they fixed it right up for me – Sgt. Pepper played just fine, and I went through several more LP’s.
Well, several weeks later, I put on a Bob Dylan album – yes, I had a bunch of Beatles albums and Dylan albums come up for cleaning at about the same time, and that was pretty cool – and again, I had an inkling that it was running a tiny bit slow. But it was an intermittent problem, and I just played another record instead that sounded okay; eventually I put the Dylan album back on, and it sounded fine that second time. Finally, I put on the first Violent Femmes album – that was a record that I literally bought right off the turntable when it was playing at the time that I was shopping in a record store years ago – and it didn’t play right two times in a row, so I was resigned to having to get it fixed again. I called the repairman up, and he said that the type of variable-speed motor that they use in turntables can sometimes need adjusting. He told me just to bring it in anytime, and they would fix it up for me at no charge. I hate having to do things twice, and I have been so busy at work as well, so I have been putting off taking it back to the shop.
(December 2012)
