by Mike Cleaver » Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:43 pm
Happy Birthday, Eldon!
As for "Pirate Radio," a good piece of entertainment with chunks from the various pirate stations woven into a fictionalized story.
A few technical errors, there were none of those Luxo mic arms back then, they'd be using Dazors or something home made.
The ship would not have kept broadcasting as it sank, the water would have hit the generators first as they were in the bowels of the ship.
But the boards, the mics, the cart machines and turntables were correct, obviously the props people looked at old photos from "Caroline" and others.
And they probably couldn't use the turntables unless the sea was dead calm.
The rolling would throw the arm off the record.
I think most of the music actually was played from carts.
Still, pretty entertaining as I said, with great music and a cast of characters anyone who was in the biz in the '60's would recognize.
Sort of a British version of "WKRP."
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