cerwin vega – Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:14:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Visual Culture part XIV: 1981 https://www.preservationsound.com/visual-culture-part-xiv-1981/ https://www.preservationsound.com/visual-culture-part-xiv-1981/#comments Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:12:11 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=6938 Toa_Mixer_1981Just stick a Porsche next to pretty much anything

PeaveyWorld_1981In Hartley Peavey’s imaginarium, everything is made of Peaveys.  Kinda like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, but with amps.

MesaBoogie_1981‘Hey Jim, how about Denim for the background?’  ‘Sounds good Mike.’

CerwinVega_1981Is she intended as *a simile for the speakers?  *a metaphor for the musical signal that will ‘exite’ these speakers?  *a metonym for the community of all nightclub-speaker users?  *a form of ‘impossible representation’ given that she seems quite unlikely to be a purchaser of this product, and the speakers are equally unlikely to be a ‘client’ of hers?   Please use the COMMENTS section to offer your own analysis of the precise ‘non-literal meaning’ being used here. 

Top to bottom: Toa, Peavey, Mesa-Boogie, Cerwin Vega, all circa 1981. 

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