Author Topic: New use for old computers (Read 6671 times)

Bernd · « **on:** December 06, 2011, 08:35:00 AM »

Got this one off of a mailing list. I like the song too.

For those who aren't as ancient as me.

The song is House fo the Rising Sun. Forgot who played it though.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/w68qZ8JvBds

Bernd

NOTE: got to find out why "youtube" botton dosen't work for me.

Note 2: Still couldn't get it work. Copied Erics code and pasted here. Works fine.

Chuck in E. TN · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2011, 08:48:50 AM »

"House of the Rising Sun", by the Animals. Not sure of the version on the video. Google is your friend...

Chuck in E. TN

spuddevans · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2011, 09:03:44 AM »

Quote from: Bernd on December 06, 2011, 08:35:00 AM

NOTE: got to find out why "youtube" botton dosen't work for me.

I really dont know, I tried to make it work, but couldn't, and to top it all off, my connection to the site is really slow for some reason at the moment.

Really cool video though.

Tim

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2011, 10:38:34 AM »

Love it!

Really love the original too......

Thanks Bernd!

David D

Lew_Merrick_PE · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2011, 11:55:01 AM »

Chuck,

The House of the Rising Sun was one of the songs collected by John Jacob Niles for the Smithsonian Institute during his study of folk music in the 1920's and 1930's. I believe that the version he recorded was played by Leadbelly. It became Dave vanRonk's signature tune during the 1950's folk music revival when Robert Zimmerman (not yet Bob Dylan) used it to get his foot in the door at Gerties' Folk City (then the premier showcase for folk music in the Washington Circle area of New York City). Eric Burdon and the Animals recorded it several years later.

(My father was assigned to a parish in western Massachusetts in the late-1950's. When my eldest sister would get stuck babysitting me on weekends, she would take me along to the folk clubs of Boston and New York City. I remember seeing the (pre-Bob Dylan) Bobby Zimmerman being given the bum's rush when he was booed off the stage at Gerties...)

Bernd · « **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2011, 02:12:18 PM »

My pleasure gentlmen.

Ah yes the Animals. Correct you are.

But Lew's got some interesting background on the song I never knew. Thanks for chiming in Lew.

Bernd

dsquire · « **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2011, 02:22:24 PM »

Bernd

Thanks for that link. Definitely a different way to use resources.

Cheers

Don

Brass_Machine · « **Reply #7 on:** December 06, 2011, 04:28:04 PM »

Hmmm. embedding works for me

Bernd · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2011, 09:29:53 AM »

The SMF 2.0.1 Gremlins are really having a field day with me.

I took your code and copied it into my OP and it works. I'm starting to think this new SMF 2.0.1 software is buggy.

There's been some other strange stuff going on while reading posts. I'd tell you about it but you've got enough to try and get other stuff straightened out, so don't worry about it.

Bernd

Brass_Machine · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2011, 10:57:29 AM »

Nah Bernd... it was the link you used...

This was the one you used:

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http://www.youtube.com/embed/w68qZ8JvBds
This was the one I used

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68qZ8JvBds
Do you see the difference? If the link says "embed" it won't work. You have go to youtube and get the actual link. The one with "watch" in it.

Its all good

Eric

Bernd · « **Reply #10 on:** December 08, 2011, 09:09:14 AM »

Thanks Eric.

Now I'll know what and what not use. Again Operator Error.

Bernd

Brass_Machine · « **Reply #11 on:** December 08, 2011, 10:27:31 AM »

No big deal Bernd. I had to do a lot of digging to figure it out.

so it got me too!

Troutsqueezer · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2011, 02:42:48 PM »

The old oscilloscope brought back memories for me when I was a teenager. I had one similar or maybe even the same as that one which I bought from the local college for $15. I remember having to interpolate the amplitudes and frequencies as the knobs only gave you so much information. I used to hook it up to my stereo and run Lissajous curves to impress my friends. Didn't take long to step up to a Tektronics.

MadModder

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