Lost Light Near Delila ...

[sharky60]

Hey y'all, this post was on FB this morning ... thought I'd pass it on here ...

From Mark Lindsey ...
"It worth a shot posting, but I am not counting on anything..... I mistakenly released my dive light instead of my BCD buckle yesterday North of Delila in the Francesca dive area. I didn't realize what I had done until I got back to shore. It looks like we were picked up somewhere between the Allegro and the Occidental Hotels. It's a bright yellow Princeton pistol grip light and it has my last name on the butt end of it. Reward if found and returned. Thanks."

Here's a link to his Facebook page: Facebook

 

[ggunn]

Hey y'all, this post was on FB this morning ... thought I'd pass it on here ...

From Mark Lindsey ...

Of Paul Revere and the Raiders?

 

[El Graduado]

It was Mark Lindsay who was with the Raiders...

 

[DandyDon]

It was Mark Lindsay who was with the Raiders...

Paul Revere & the Raiders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The band in 1967. Front L–R: Paul Revere, Mike Smith.
Center L–R: Jim Valley, Mark Lindsay.
Back: Phil Volk

 

[ggunn]

It was Mark Lindsay who was with the Raiders...

Well of course it was. I saw them live in 1966 or so and I had several of their albums. Remember albums?

 

[El Graduado]

Yeah, I remember albums. They were the things I used to play on the record player when I was a kid. They were large, heavy discs that played at 78 RPM and were packed in groups of 3 or 4 in sleeves that were bound together like a book; hence the word albums.

 

[sharky60]

Of Paul Revere and the Raiders?

I thought the same thing when I first saw his name ...

 

[DandyDon]

Yeah, I remember albums. They were the things I used to play on the record player when I was a kid. They were large, heavy discs that played at 78 RPM and were packed in groups of 3 or 4 in sleeves that were bound together like a book; hence the word albums.

I thought they played at 33-1/3? Singles played at 45. Our family record player also had settings for 78 & 16, but we never used them.

And the LP (long play) records were called albums because they had several tunes on one vinyl disc, not just one each front & back.

Well there was a long transition before 8-tracks took over. One of my granddads had a phonograph that would record and play both.

 

[El Graduado]

I thought you would be old enough to remember 78s, Don! They were about 10 inches in diameter and only held about three minutes of music per side. Sure, you could buy them singly in a paper sleeve, but many artists sold a collection of their tunes recorded on various 78rpm discs packaged together in "albums" of 4 or 5 discs. The spine of the album had the artist's name and the name of the collection of tunes. The front of the album had an image. The sleeves inside were bound to the spine, like pages in a book. You would take one disc out, play it, put it back in the sleeve, pull out another, play it, put it back, etc. THAT was changing tracks! The discs weren't made of vinyl back then; it was a much heavier material and the discs were thicker than the vinyl ones. Those old 78rpm albums is where the 33-1/3rpm "album" of ten or so tracks got its name.

 

[DandyDon]

I thought you would be old enough to remember 78s, Don! They were about 10 inches in diameter and only held about three minutes of music per side.

I sorta kinda remember some 78s when we got our first record player, or I may be old enough to have forgotten them - not sure. I remember getting our first indoor/flush toilet. We may have been too far out in the sticks and/or too poor when those albums were popular. I remember the 33 rpm albums and the 45 singles.