What memorable experiences have you had with music? What musical occasion left you with an indelible impression that followed you for the rest of your life?
One such occasion was when I was probably around 19 years old (ca. 1985) at the Space Odyssey Discotheque, a night club out in Salt River. This club had Bose 901-style speakers suspended overhead, around the periphery of the dance floor and a "rain curtain" array of spot lights delineating the boundary of the dance floor. It was layed out like a restaurant, though very little eating of food happened there. The seating area was in one section and the dance area was in another. Most other clubs I knew had seating around the dance area. This was not my favourite club; its image was somewhat upmarket from the other clubs. This in itself was not a problem for me, but rather the fact that it was just a bit too pretentious - or, rather, the patrons seemed a bit pretentious. Anyway, this just sets the scene...
The subwoofers (we just called them woofers back then) were housed in concrete enclosures and for some reason were positioned away from the dance floor (not very far away, but definitely not close to the "tops"). One of the hottest songs - and still a favourite of mine - came on: West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys. The bass was so powerful that you could feel the bass line playing inside your body. Somehow, the bass level was boosted higher than the original recording, yet remained tight and musical. I was never able to reproduce the performance with my own home equipment and concluded that the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQCI1reA08
One such occasion was when I was probably around 19 years old (ca. 1985) at the Space Odyssey Discotheque, a night club out in Salt River. This club had Bose 901-style speakers suspended overhead, around the periphery of the dance floor and a "rain curtain" array of spot lights delineating the boundary of the dance floor. It was layed out like a restaurant, though very little eating of food happened there. The seating area was in one section and the dance area was in another. Most other clubs I knew had seating around the dance area. This was not my favourite club; its image was somewhat upmarket from the other clubs. This in itself was not a problem for me, but rather the fact that it was just a bit too pretentious - or, rather, the patrons seemed a bit pretentious. Anyway, this just sets the scene...
The subwoofers (we just called them woofers back then) were housed in concrete enclosures and for some reason were positioned away from the dance floor (not very far away, but definitely not close to the "tops"). One of the hottest songs - and still a favourite of mine - came on: West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys. The bass was so powerful that you could feel the bass line playing inside your body. Somehow, the bass level was boosted higher than the original recording, yet remained tight and musical. I was never able to reproduce the performance with my own home equipment and concluded that the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQCI1reA08
