DaveFry Posted January 10, 2019 Posted January 10, 2019 Henry " The Thumb " Thomas from the Rockschool TV series of the day . 3 Quote
Barking Spiders Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 As a young scrote I always waited for Henry's bit on Rockschool but tuned out when the other two were doing their thing and that was even before I took up bass. Maybe subconsciously Henry was my biggest inspiration Quote
DaveFry Posted January 11, 2019 Author Posted January 11, 2019 Full page colour advert ; I wonder where he is now . And , same edition of the trade mag , a review of the Westone 1A : ( with one I prepared earlier ) Quote
visog Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 19 hours ago, DaveFry said: Henry " The Thumb " Thomas from the Rockschool TV series of the day . Sorry to be obtuse but I'm fascinated with how rudimentary the layout, type-set and printing was in the 80s - pre-computers I suppose. Quote
petebassist Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 I can remember Henry very well, great player. And Diedre, ditto, and the occasional guest drummers on this programme, such as Ian Paice - class. Quote
Guest Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 When was the last time a bass player had the monicker “TV personality”! Quote
BigRedX Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 (edited) 27 minutes ago, visog said: Sorry to be obtuse but I'm fascinated with how rudimentary the layout, type-set and printing was in the 80s - pre-computers I suppose. It doesn't look wonky enough to be Letraset, so I'm guessing this would have been done on typesetting machine. This was a rudimentary computer that controlled a photographic imaging process to produce the type. Changing the typeface (including getting bold and italic variants) normally meant fitting a different photographic negative with the required character shapes, and everything else was done by inserting various codes into the text that controlled the type size, line length and alignment. Since you couldn't be 100% certain what you were going to get until the program had run and the results had been developed in the dark room, a lot of the time it was simplest to run everything at a single size ranged left and then cut up the results and use a process camera to resize them to fit. The finished design would be assembled on a piece of board, cutting and pasting the various elements into position. If you wanted colour you would specify it on a tracing paper overlay, and the repo-house would work their magic to turn black and white artwork into a full colour print. The process was long-winded and time consuming and often the client would have revised the text before you'd even got the first version out of the developer, let alone stuck down onto the artwork board! Edited January 11, 2019 by BigRedX 2 1 Quote
Roger2611 Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 Rocking out on a Westone Thunder 1A, still a criminally underrated bass, in my opinion 2 Quote
TheGreek Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 16 minutes ago, julesb said: i'm going to see him play tonight! I bet your ticket cost more than the cost of the (£10.50) course... Quote
arthurhenry Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 Who's going to fill it in and sent it off? I often wonder what the outcome would be if one wrote off to the "For more info" addresses on the back of old album covers etc. Quote
julesb Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 (edited) £22.50 tonight. With Sarah Jane Morris following three sellouts at Ronnies. Edited January 11, 2019 by julesb more info Quote
leschirons Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 I had a couple of private bass lessons with him at his house. Quote
julesb Posted January 11, 2019 Posted January 11, 2019 Brilliant gig and he's still playing a Westone (thunder 3a as far as I could see) 2 Quote
DaveFry Posted January 12, 2019 Author Posted January 12, 2019 .... And there's more ... Does anyone know who the guy cutting the tape is , and the lady with the trumpet ? 1 Quote
mentalextra Posted January 12, 2019 Posted January 12, 2019 On 11/01/2019 at 14:19, visog said: Sorry to be obtuse but I'm fascinated with how rudimentary the layout, type-set and printing was in the 80s - pre-computers I suppose. You got what you paid for? Quote
visog Posted January 12, 2019 Posted January 12, 2019 DaveFry… I'd love that Wal through a Trace rig... Quote
DaveFry Posted January 13, 2019 Author Posted January 13, 2019 On 12/01/2019 at 20:16, visog said: DaveFry… I'd love that Wal through a Trace rig... I have no idea what to reply. 😨 ( I have autism , you see ) Quote
AndyTravis Posted January 13, 2019 Posted January 13, 2019 7 minutes ago, DaveFry said: I have no idea what to reply. 😨 ( I have autism , you see ) The Wal bass in the picture you posted looks like a great bass - it would sound ace through the big rack of Trace Elliot amps you also posted a picture of. Thanks for posting some great pictures mate, wish I’d kept my old bass magazines! 1 Quote
DaveFry Posted January 14, 2019 Author Posted January 14, 2019 Phew , relief ! Thankyou Andy . I discovered the magazine the other day whilst looking for evidence of keytar ownership for the keytar thread on here . Another advert from the same ... : And could the guy cutting the tape in the earlier pic be Carl Palmer ? Or Paul White from Sound On Sound magazine , maybe ? Quote
BigRedX Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 On 12/01/2019 at 16:51, mentalextra said: You got what you paid for? You would have probably paid quite a lot for the design and artwork of something even as simple as this, as it required access to specialist skills and expensive equipment that were strictly for graphic arts professionals. Quote
mentalextra Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, BigRedX said: You would have probably paid quite a lot for the design and artwork of something even as simple as this, as it required access to specialist skills and expensive equipment that were strictly for graphic arts professionals. I was a typesetter back then, i know! It's probably a little harsh to judge the work done at that time by this advert, even 'pre computer' times. The industry went through so many changes around that time. When I joined the trade it was at the start of 'computerisation'. I worked with many guys who had spent their working lives on hot metal. The front end systems were specialised, hugely expensive code driven machines that looked as though they could have put a rocket on the moon, but probably contained the same computing power as an iphone. But it all changed very quickly and fortunately I got out before DTP really took hold and everyone was doing it on their 386! Anyway, the advert, to my mind, looks as though it's been 'pasted up', done on the cheap. EG check out the word spacing, especially between the words AMAZING and BASS compared to BASS and WITH. Also a little too much space after the word 'pop,' which I think indicates manual paste up and last minute changes! They have RR/RL the three para next to the image but the last para is centred weirdly. I'm guessing the text was set to suit a different design and it's been hacked around! Just my opinion Edited January 14, 2019 by mentalextra Quote
NewDad Posted January 15, 2019 Posted January 15, 2019 Funnily enough, my wife was a CRTronic typesetter in the '80s and owns a Westone Thunder 1A. (Didn't take lessons from Henry though.) Quote
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