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311 Concert Tickets
In 1990 and 1991, 311 released three records on their own independent record label, What Have You Records. These records, titled Dammit!, Hydroponic, and Unity, and alongside their energetic live shows, launched their career in the Midwest, after which they moved out to California in an attempt to be signed onto a major record label.
Their first major CD, Music was released in 1993. The single “Do You Right” received airplay on modern rock stations and reached #27 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. But the album failed to chart at the time. The following year, they released their second album, Grassroots. Although none of the singles charted, the album reached #8 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and #193 on the Billboard 200.
n 1995, 311 released what was to be their biggest selling CD, the self-titled 311 (also known as The Blue Album). The first single “Don’t Stay Home” was a modest success, reaching #29 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. But the follow-up single “Down” was a major success receiving heavy airplay on mainstream radio and the accompanying music video was on MTV’s rotation. The song hit #1 on the Modern Rock chart. The third single, “All Mixed Up”, enjoyed almost identical success, reaching #4 on the Modern Rock chart. The singles propelled the album to platinum status in 1996. The album eventually went triple platinum.
In the following years, 311 kept their mainstream success going strong. 1997’s Tansistor debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200. Transistor is known as a fan-favorite throughout the 311 community, and sports popular tracks such as “Beautiful Disaster”, “Transistor”, and “Prisoner.” All three enjoyed solid success on radio and MTV, though not as much as their previous singles. The album very quickly went platinum.
In 1999, 311 released their fifth major album, Soundsystem. “Come Original” was the album’s first single and had huge success on radio and MTV. The song reached #6 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. The video was heavily requested on MTV’s TRL, and was #60 on TRL’s Top 99 of ‘99. The second single, “Flowing,” had American Pie’s Eddie Kaye Thomas featured in the music video.
The success of these albums helped the band’s first two major albums, Music and Grassroots, reach certified gold status.
In 1995, the band purchased a communal living space/recording studio in North Hollywood, California called The Hive. The band has recorded every album at The Hive since 2000, beginning with the sessions for From Chaos, 311’s sixth major record release.
From Chaos was released in late 2001 and debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200. “You Wouldn’t Believe” featured basketball star Shaquille O’Neal in the video. It had solid success on MTV. The album is mostly known for the third single, “Amber”. The song reached out to a new crowd, different from the usual fanbase. The band also played tribute to another band with the song “I’ll Be Here Awhile,” by lifting several lines from the 77’s 1987 “The Lust, The Flesh, The Eyes and the Pride of Life.”
Their seventh major release, 2003’s Evolver, was a very different album for 311, and fans’ overall opinions of the album were mixed. Despite debuting at #7 on the Billboard 200, the album became their first major studio release not to reach gold status. The single “Creatures (For A While)” reached #3 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart.
In 2004, 311 covered the Cure’s “Love Song” which became a #1 hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. It also reached #59 on the Hot 100, their first single to reach that chart. It was featured on the soundtrack for the motion picture 50 first Dates and then a few months later on their own Greatest Hits ‘93-‘03. The compilation debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold. The album also featured two new songs. One of these new tracks, “First Straw”, was released as a single and reached #14 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Also that year, 311 played a 68-song setlist during their concert on “311 Day”, which the band has held in New Orleans every other year since 2000. “311 Day” occurs on March 11, also written as 3/11. The most recent 311 Day, in 2006, was held at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis , due to the destruction from Hurricane Katrina. The band recorded the entire show in high definition. A pay-per-view version is in the works, along with another 311 Day DVD.
The News from Newport News
Back in the present, I’m under the James River Bridge and passing by this lovely beach, then several miles of waterfront mansions, as well as the park that surrounds the Mariners’ Museum. An hour later, after spotting the entrance markers to Deep Creek, I drop my sails and motor in. On the port side is Menchville, where several deadrise workboats are moored. Ahead is Deep Creek Landing Marina and the Warwick Yacht Club, both bristling with yachts. To starboard is James River Marina, my destination today, and a place I’m looking forward to revisiting. Owner Marty Moliken, whom I met eight years ago when writing about the James, is there to help with my lines. For the past 60 years, workboats had tied up at an ancient city pier next to the marina. Finally, this year, the old pier was removed as the city improved the bulkheads and dockage across the creek. Now Moliken has gotten the ball rolling for 40 new slips and a raw bar at the end of the old pier. If the building-permit gods smile on him, he says, it could all be up and running by next summer. At this point, Barb arrives in the land yacht and begins to unload our bikes. We’d thought of bringing them across by boat. It’s possible to stow them on deck, but they’re not the fold-up types and, frankly, we didn’t want the hassle of loading and unloading them. What I was trying to test out was my theory that we could fairly ?easily get to the Mariners’ Museum from James River Marina—because you just can’t visit Newport News without going to that gem of a museum. We’ll test my theory about biking there in the morning. Now we test the food. James River Marina owns what has long been a popular local restaurant. Originally named Herman’s Harbor House, it’s now called Slightly Up the Creek. We get a table on the front porch overlooking the creek, and while a fan whirs and the sun sets, we indulge in some very good shrimp and crabcakes. And—we couldn’t resist—some astonishing caramel bread pudding. The western sky is dominated by sail-shaped clouds, with sunset in their bellies. With bread pudding in our bellies, Barb and I bed down aboard Ode to Joy, falling asleep to the murmurs of conversation and the occasional peal of laughter from the night owls in nearby slips. We awake at dawn, dawdle over cereal and fruit, then pedal off toward the museum. It’s a nice ride, about three and a half miles through a cozy suburban neighborhood. We choose the long way this time because it leads down to the waterfront and to Museum Drive, which takes you through the heavily forested Mariners’ Museum Park. Archer Huntington, stepson of shipyard founder Collis Huntington, turned his collection of maritime paintings and ship models into the museum, surrounding it with miles of parkland and nature trails, so it’s fun to arrive this way. We’re lucky to be visiting the museum while it’s showcasing a major exhibit, “Building Better Ships,” that explores (until November 15) the museum’s intimate ties to the shipbuilding company. It was Archer Huntington’s fascination with maritime art that led to the museum’s creation in the early 1930s. At the same time, he hired well known artist Thomas C. Skinner and furnished him with a studio at the shipyard. Skinner turned out dozens of near-life-size canvases of shipwrights plying their trade—laying out patterns in cavernous lofts, punching holes for rivets, pouring molds with red-hot steel, lining up at pay windows at weeks’ end. The shipyard also filmed those tradesmen, as an aid for training new workers, and those black and white films, recently restored, are now shown side-by-side with the paintings. A painting of workers laying out patterns, for instance, is echoed by similar filmed images. Scenes of workers pouring molten lead into a mold, bending white-hot steel strips into the shape of a prow, or turning a glowing propeller shaft are similarly juxtaposed. This may be, as museum curator Anna Holloway later told me, “the ultimate way of interpreting historic works of art, viewing the paintings and then seeing film footage of these things actually occurring.” Collis Huntington virtually created the modern city of Newport News by running his railroad there, then creating the shipyard. A small village sprang up nearby and was incorporated in 1896, the same year the shipyard opened. “It was my original intention to start a ?shipyard plant in the best location in the world,” reads a quote from Huntington on one wall of the exhibit, “and I suc-ceeded in my purpose. It is right at the gateway to the sea.” That gateway became a huge embarkation point during the world wars as hundreds of thousands of troops shipped off to Europe. They were welcomed home to the city’s waterfront by a victory arch, built in the style of Paris’s Arc de Triomphe. The museum’s most compelling feature for me (hardly surprising, since I’ve written a book on the subject) is the?Monitor Center, dedicated to that historic clash of experimental ironclads, the Monitor and Virginia. This sprawling $30 million permanent exhibit presides over not only a full-scale exterior model of the Monitor, but also actual parts of it, plucked from the bottom of the Atlantic beginning in 1987 and now being preserved and displayed here. Indeed, one of the best parts of the Monitor Center—besides watching reenactments of the battles of Hampton Roads and the sinking later that year of the Monitor off Cape Hatteras—is being able to climb up to windows that look down into the Monitor conservation area. There are more than a thousand artifacts here, but the star of the show is undoubtedly the part of the Monitor that even a casual Civil War buff can identify—the massive iron gun turret, which now stews in a bath as 140 years of salt incursion is slowly leeched out of the metal. On days when the water is clear, or when it’s merely being sprayed with a fine mist, you can see the dents caused by enemy cannon shot. You can imagine what the Monitorgunners, working feverishly inside the turret, unable to see the enemy, must have experienced. One seaman “dropped over like a dead man” when a ball struck a few inches from his head. Another was flung over both guns from the blow.
The latest find is such a simple thing, an oil can that years of sedimentation and the marriage of metals have caused to be cemented to the engine’s condenser. But it reminds you that there were men down in that engine room on New Year’s Eve 1862, struggling to keep the steam engines running as water rose toward the fire grates. The Monitor went down in 240 feet of water off Cape Hatteras, with the loss of 16 crew. Even more poignant are the remnants of an officer’s coat that were found draped over one of the two gun carriages. “This is probably what one of the crew took off to keep from being dragged down as he went into the water,” Marcie Renner, the museum’s chief conservator, told me during another visit. Pretty exciting stuff, slowly materializing after 147 years of submerged history. On the bike ride back to the marina, we take a faster route, heading west toward Deep Creek, but this time past the modern and growing Christopher Newport University and the impressive I.M. Pei designed Ferguson Center for the Arts, one of the most highly regarded performing arts venues in the region. It’s nice to know that you can stop at Deep Creek or Leeward and go, whether by bike or taxi, to a world-class museum or performing space.
One of the lesser known but more intriguing parts of the Newport News waterfront is the city’s Small Boat Harbor. It can be glimpsed for about a nanosecond while driving over the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel, just off to the east. What you can see, mostly, is the top of fishing trawler rigs, so you’d be right in guessing it’s a commercial fishing harbor. And not just for small boats. Pretty big stuff, really. Crabbers, clammers, scallop boats, pilot boats, Coast Guard boats and all the rest. And, all along Newport News Creek, which creates the harbor, are seafood packing plants. We’ve got to drive to get there; it’s at the other end of this sprawling town, but luckily we have the car. Harbormaster Doreen Kopacz, who grew up in the Willoughby section of Norfolk, greets me. We take a drive up one side of the creek and down the other. “This is one of thefew spots left that lets commercial people come in,” she says. We loop under the bridge and park where Judy’s Spirit, a 40-foot double rig clammer, is coming in. Charles Stanley Mason and his son, Charles Jr., are back from having done engine work on their boat. Mason, who sits on the pier next to his boat, has been clamming out of the Small Boat Harbor for 22 years, “and we’re getting the best we’ve ever got for ‘em.” What’s so great about clamming? I ask the elder Charles. He shrugs. “I like to do what I like to do. You know what I mean?” It isn’t easy, not in this era of tight regulations, but that observation gets only another shrug. “Nothing’s like it used to be.” Charles Jr., a thin beard tracing the ridge of his jaw, enthusiastically shows me the clam rigs, each powered by a four-speed V-6 tractor-trailer motor. “It’s the hardest job I ever had,” he says, explaining how fast the clam scoop flies off the bottom. “You got to pay attention or you’ll hurt yourself.” Right now it doesn’t look very promising for him to follow in his father’s footsteps, he explains, what with the state tightly regulating the clam beds. “If they’d leave the grounds out there open,” he says, “I’d keep doing it till I was as old as my dad.” Harbormaster Kopacz doesn’t mind taking me around some more, so we continue the tour—soon stopping to watch another boat, Miss Leslie from Poquoson, Va., come in with about 30 bushels of blue crabs. Ken Diggs and his son—you guessed it, Ken Diggs Jr.—gripe like all fishermen do about regulations, but they wouldn’t do anything else for a living. “It’s all I ever did, it’s crazy,” says the younger Diggs. “It’s like I’m the last cowboy.” There are a lot of last cowboys here, in the so-called Small Boat Harbor, one of the largest concentrations of seafood businesses of its kind on the Bay. Dozens of boats come in and unload while we watch. One of the fish packing plants has a retail outlet, and a nice lady—”What can I get for you, darlin’?”—sells me some very nice shrimp. Perfect for our dinner on board. Barb and I spend another night aboard, this time anchored at a peaceful spot in Deep Creek, and leave shortly after first light. A fall-like northerly breeze catches our sails as we parade—and then, as the wind picks up, race past—the miles-long city and a shoreline fringed with history. It’s been nice getting to know Newport News, New Port Newse, that mighty and mighty nice city along the James. As soon as you enter Hampton Roads, the city begins to reveal itself. It’s sprawling, muscular and—from the water, at least—somewhat forbidding: a commercial fishing basin, a giant shipyard, an open-air coal pier, a fleet of reserve ships aging on the waterfront. Somewhere—ahh, there—between gray behemoths, are a few downtown office buildings, a narrow park and the barely visible top of a victory arch. But don’t be put off. Newport News does have accessible marinas, a few lovely spots for dropping anchor, inviting beaches, a vibrant fishing industry, a gorgeous performing arts center and one of the world’s finest maritime museums. And it’s all reachable by water, with a little extra effort—okay, maybe a lot. There’s history here, as deep as the water just off the shoreline, and it begins with a name. It may well be, as some contend, that Newport News Point—the point of land that marks the end of Hampton Roads and the beginning of the James River—got its name from the good news that Captain Christopher Newport, leader of the Jamestown expedition, had returned with supplies. But I prefer a more likely theory, that one William Newce, a knighted Irishman, arrived shortly after the 1607 settlement and established a seaport that came to be known as New Port Newce. It was just off this point of land, two-and-a-half centuries later, that two ungainly ironclad warships, the U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia (nee U.S.S. Merrimack) battled to a draw on a fog-shrouded morning in March 1862, marking the beginning of the end of wooden fighting ships. Every time I pass this way I think of that battle, and how so many naval ships, “ironclads” all, are now built just over there, on that near shore, practically within hailing distance; Also not far from here, perhaps the distance of a cannonball’s flight, are the hoary remains of the Monitor itself, resting in a world-class museum. I’m traveling by sailboat—my Tartan 30, Ode to Joy—from my mooring on the Lafayette River in Norfolk, hoping to take a closer look at what makes Newport News compelling, especially by water. Newport News, a linear city that’s at least 20 miles long but only two to four miles wide for most of that length, parades slowly by as I pick up a gentle northerly breeze, put Middle Ground Light astern, slip past the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel and enter the James. To my dismay, there’s no ideal place for a cruising sailor to tie up—not in the Small Boat Harbor that is home to a commercial fishing fleet (more on that later), not downtown, not along the beach, and certainly not along the industrial waterfront. I feel like I’ll have to keep going to Williamsburg or Jamestown. But I won’t give up yet; there is a way to see this town. I keep moving. At the coal pier, the ship Energy Enterprise out of New Orleans, and a barge from Baltimore are poised under a gantry taking on black coal that is piled in tall mounds on land (regularly sprayed with water to keep down the soot). Not too inviting here. The city’s dominant feature, stretching for miles along the waterfront, is the giant Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard. It was founded by railroad baron Collis Huntington more than a hundred years ago to service the ships that unloaded at his docks. The Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding Co., as it was known then, began turning out military ships by the scores during the war years, becoming the largest individually owned yard in America, until Northrop Grumman bought it not long ago. At one of the piers, towering 20 stories above the water and looking about as big as a reclining Empire State Building, broods the newly commissioned aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush, undergoing post-shakedown maintenance and repair. Security is tight as a tick here. You don’t even want to think about docking or losing headway. Nice doggy. Don’t worry. I’m just passing. At 3:30 p.m., a siren wails. A shift change, I hope. Miles farther and there’s still no place to stop, but that’s about to change. Just before the James River Bridge I come to the city-owned Leeward Municipal Marina. I’m fond of Leeward. It was where I found my first boat, a sweet little swing-keel Spirit 23, which I bought there and sailed home. Tucked in next to the bridge, the marina is surrounded by a white cement breakwater. I had stopped here by car a few days earlier to see if I could go anywhere on foot. And to my delight, I could. Just up from the marina a stoplight allowed me to safely walk across the approach to the James River Bridge. And right there on the western side of the bridge was a sandy oasis, Huntington Park. On that day it was teeming with beachgoers: families with blankets, umbrellas and coolers, lifeguards and swimmers. Just beyond a refreshment stand I found a ramp, where half a dozen boats were being coaxed off trailers into the water. One could easily anchor out and dinghy in or tie up at the small pier that accommodates ramp users, even go for a swim at the beach. There’s a fishing pier at Huntington Park that rests on remains of an older James River Bridge, with the Crab Shack Seafood Restaurant—it’s good, I hear—perched over the water. Beyond the beach is an elaborate children’s park called Fort Fun, and then, a not-so-fun place, I imagine, the Virginia War Museum. But what I was looking for and found was a footbridge crossing a small creek. Aha again! If I wanted to get to the Mariners’ Museum by bicycle from the waterfront entrance to Newport News, following the inviting River Road beside the James, I could. This city is opening up a little at a time. Back in the present, I’m under the James River Bridge and passing by this lovely beach, then several miles of waterfront mansions, as well as the park that surrounds the Mariners’ Museum. An hour later, after spotting the entrance markers to Deep Creek, I drop my sails and motor in. On the port side is Menchville, where several deadrise workboats are moored. Ahead is Deep Creek Landing Marina and the Warwick Yacht Club, both bristling with yachts. To starboard is James River Marina, my destination today, and a place I’m looking forward to revisiting. Owner Marty Moliken, whom I met eight years ago when writing about the James, is there to help with my lines. For the past 60 years, workboats had tied up at an ancient city pier next to the marina. Finally, this year, the old pier was removed as the city improved the bulkheads and dockage across the creek. Now Moliken has gotten the ball rolling for 40 new slips and a raw bar at the end of the old pier. If the building-permit gods smile on him, he says, it could all be up and running by next summer. At this point, Barb arrives in the land yacht and begins to unload our bikes. We’d thought of bringing them across by boat. It’s possible to stow them on deck, but they’re not the fold-up types and, frankly, we didn’t want the hassle of loading and unloading them. What I was trying to test out was my theory that we could fairly ?easily get to the Mariners’ Museum from James River Marina—because you just can’t visit Newport News without going to that gem of a museum. We’ll test my theory about biking there in the morning. Now we test the food. James River Marina owns what has long been a popular local restaurant. Originally named Herman’s Harbor House, it’s now called Slightly Up the Creek. We get a table on the front porch overlooking the creek, and while a fan whirs and the sun sets, we indulge in some very good shrimp and crabcakes. And—we couldn’t resist—some astonishing caramel bread pudding. The western sky is dominated by sail-shaped clouds, with sunset in their bellies. With bread pudding in our bellies, Barb and I bed down aboard Ode to Joy, falling asleep to the murmurs of conversation and the occasional peal of laughter from the night owls in nearby slips. We awake at dawn, dawdle over cereal and fruit, then pedal off toward the museum. It’s a nice ride, about three and a half miles through a cozy suburban neighborhood. We choose the long way this time because it leads down to the waterfront and to Museum Drive, which takes you through the heavily forested Mariners’ Museum Park. Archer Huntington, stepson of shipyard founder Collis Huntington, turned his collection of maritime paintings and ship models into the museum, surrounding it with miles of parkland and nature trails, so it’s fun to arrive this way. We’re lucky to be visiting the museum while it’s showcasing a major exhibit, “Building Better Ships,” that explores (until November 15) the museum’s intimate ties to the shipbuilding company. It was Archer Huntington’s fascination with maritime art that led to the museum’s creation in the early 1930s. At the same time, he hired well known artist Thomas C. Skinner and furnished him with a studio at the shipyard. Skinner turned out dozens of near-life-size canvases of shipwrights plying their trade—laying out patterns in cavernous lofts, punching holes for rivets, pouring molds with red-hot steel, lining up at pay windows at weeks’ end. The shipyard also filmed those tradesmen, as an aid for training new workers, and those black and white films, recently restored, are now shown side-by-side with the paintings. A painting of workers laying out patterns, for instance, is echoed by similar filmed images. Scenes of workers pouring molten lead into a mold, bending white-hot steel strips into the shape of a prow, or turning a glowing propeller shaft are similarly juxtaposed. This may be, as museum curator Anna Holloway later told me, “the ultimate way of interpreting historic works of art, viewing the paintings and then seeing film footage of these things actually occurring.” Collis Huntington virtually created the modern city of Newport News by running his railroad there, then creating the shipyard. A small village sprang up nearby and was incorporated in 1896, the same year the shipyard opened. “It was my original intention to start a ?shipyard plant in the best location in the world,” reads a quote from Huntington on one wall of the exhibit, “and I suc-ceeded in my purpose. It is right at the gateway to the sea.” That gateway became a huge embarkation point during the world wars as hundreds of thousands of troops shipped off to Europe. They were welcomed home to the city’s waterfront by a victory arch, built in the style of Paris’s Arc de Triomphe. The museum’s most compelling feature for me (hardly surprising, since I’ve written a book on the subject) is the?Monitor Center, dedicated to that historic clash of experimental ironclads, the Monitor and Virginia. This sprawling $30 million permanent exhibit presides over not only a full-scale exterior model of the Monitor, but also actual parts of it, plucked from the bottom of the Atlantic beginning in 1987 and now being preserved and displayed here. Indeed, one of the best parts of the Monitor Center—besides watching reenactments of the battles of Hampton Roads and the sinking later that year of the Monitor off Cape Hatteras—is being able to climb up to windows that look down into the Monitor conservation area. There are more than a thousand artifacts here, but the star of the show is undoubtedly the part of the Monitor that even a casual Civil War buff can identify—the massive iron gun turret, which now stews in a bath as 140 years of salt incursion is slowly leeched out of the metal. On days when the water is clear, or when it’s merely being sprayed with a fine mist, you can see the dents caused by enemy cannon shot. You can imagine what the Monitorgunners, working feverishly inside the turret, unable to see the enemy, must have experienced. One seaman “dropped over like a dead man” when a ball struck a few inches from his head. Another was flung over both guns from the blow. The latest find is such a simple thing, an oil can that years of sedimentation and the marriage of metals have caused to be cemented to the engine’s condenser. But it reminds you that there were men down in that engine room on New Year’s Eve 1862, struggling to keep the steam engines running as water rose toward the fire grates. The Monitor went down in 240 feet of water off Cape Hatteras, with the loss of 16 crew. Even more poignant are the remnants of an officer’s coat that were found draped over one of the two gun carriages. “This is probably what one of the crew took off to keep from being dragged down as he went into the water,” Marcie Renner, the museum’s chief conservator, told me during another visit. Pretty exciting stuff, slowly materializing after 147 years of submerged history. On the bike ride back to the marina, we take a faster route, heading west toward Deep Creek, but this time past the modern and growing Christopher Newport University and the impressive I.M. Pei designed Ferguson Center for the Arts, one of the most highly regarded performing arts venues in the region. It’s nice to know that you can stop at Deep Creek or Leeward and go, whether by bike or taxi, to a world-class museum or performing space. One of the lesser known but more intriguing parts of the Newport News waterfront is the city’s Small Boat Harbor. It can be glimpsed for about a nanosecond while driving over the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel, just off to the east. What you can see, mostly, is the top of fishing trawler rigs, so you’d be right in guessing it’s a commercial fishing harbor. And not just for small boats. Pretty big stuff, really. Crabbers, clammers, scallop boats, pilot boats, Coast Guard boats and all the rest. And, all along Newport News Creek, which creates the harbor, are seafood packing plants. We’ve got to drive to get there; it’s at the other end of this sprawling town, but luckily we have the car. Harbormaster Doreen Kopacz, who grew up in the Willoughby section of Norfolk, greets me. We take a drive up one side of the creek and down the other. “This is one of thefew spots left that lets commercial people come in,” she says. We loop under the bridge and park where Judy’s Spirit, a 40-foot double rig clammer, is coming in. Charles Stanley Mason and his son, Charles Jr., are back from having done engine work on their boat. Mason, who sits on the pier next to his boat, has been clamming out of the Small Boat Harbor for 22 years, “and we’re getting the best we’ve ever got for ‘em.” What’s so great about clamming? I ask the elder Charles. He shrugs. “I like to do what I like to do. You know what I mean?” It isn’t easy, not in this era of tight regulations, but that observation gets only another shrug. “Nothing’s like it used to be.” Charles Jr., a thin beard tracing the ridge of his jaw, enthusiastically shows me the clam rigs, each powered by a four-speed V-6 tractor-trailer motor. “It’s the hardest job I ever had,” he says, explaining how fast the clam scoop flies off the bottom. “You got to pay attention or you’ll hurt yourself.” Right now it doesn’t look very promising for him to follow in his father’s footsteps, he explains, what with the state tightly regulating the clam beds. “If they’d leave the grounds out there open,” he says, “I’d keep doing it till I was as old as my dad.” Harbormaster Kopacz doesn’t mind taking me around some more, so we continue the tour—soon stopping to watch another boat, Miss Leslie from Poquoson, Va., come in with about 30 bushels of blue crabs. Ken Diggs and his son—you guessed it, Ken Diggs Jr.—gripe like all fishermen do about regulations, but they wouldn’t do anything else for a living. “It’s all I ever did, it’s crazy,” says the younger Diggs. “It’s like I’m the last cowboy.” There are a lot of last cowboys here, in the so-called Small Boat Harbor, one of the largest concentrations of seafood businesses of its kind on the Bay. Dozens of boats come in and unload while we watch. One of the fish packing plants has a retail outlet, and a nice lady—”What can I get for you, darlin’?”—sells me some very nice shrimp. Perfect for our dinner on board. Barb and I spend another night aboard, this time anchored at a peaceful spot in Deep Creek, and leave shortly after first light. A fall-like northerly breeze catches our sails as we parade—and then, as the wind picks up, race past—the miles-long city and a shoreline fringed with history. It’s been nice getting to know Newport News, New Port Newse, that mighty and mighty nice city along the James.
Matt and Danny- They’re Back!!!
Studio 60 video- Matt and Danny are coming back on the 24th of May
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Loudspeakers Section: Crossovers at the 4th order for tweeter, mid-range or woofer individually If your loudspeakers have 3 drivers for each channel, the crossovers designed should be made separately with shielded partitions, one for the tweeter, and one for the mid-range and another for the woofer. Furthermore, you can shield up coils and capacitors which the cross-over will work precisely. I do recommend designing the crossovers at least at the 4th order or above. Crossovers placed externally & are shielded up as well. I would suggest the crossovers shall be placed outside of the loudspeakers, and then the loudspeakers would sound much better because magnetic field of each driver may distort the sound quality. And if they are shielded up as well, the high range won’t get interfered by the electromagnetic flux of the mid-range and the mid-range vice versa, and then the phase of the audio image will get improved a lot. Sealing up magnets of drivers All magnets of drivers shall be sealed up by iron cap which will hold up magnetic field, thus it will reduce the magnetic field and electromagnetic flux impacts to the working of crossovers and other drivers, and then the sound quality of the driver will also improve a lot. Eton drivers Eton drivers from Germany are real good; they can perform with all the details at high definition with good frequency response from an audio source and whatever you need. If you shield them up as I suggested, they perform real great sounds that please your ears. I used these drivers to make a pair of loudspeakers with crossovers at the 4th order; they sound real good and perform well with feel of being live. And it’s not enough; I still need shield up the magnets of them with iron sheets which gives real dynamic and nice sounding. This loudspeakers were designed by my friend, Mr. Bill with the 4th order crossovers placed outside of the chassis and the Eton drivers. I have shielded up cables and the magnets of the drivers which enhance the sound quality. You may visit the Eton’s website at the paths below: 1) http://www.eton-gmbh.de/ShowPage.php?NavRoot=0&LangId=2&NavLang=2&PId=3&NavId=61 2) http://www.eton-gmbh.de/ShowPage.php?NavRoot=0&LangId=2&NavLang=2&PId=3004&NavId=170 The crossover at the 4th order without any compensation network places externally and with weight on top of the loudspeakers. I never use any banana plugs to connect the loudspeaker cable for it, just jam the cable right into the whole of connectors. Weight on loudspeakers You can put weight on the speakers heavy enough to reduce vibration of the chassis caused by the vibration of the drivers, or else this vibration will distort the output frequencies of each driver. You may buy some heavy objects like ‘Starry Night’ (???) granite at those masonries elsewhere or anything made of iron that weighs. My granite weighs more or less 60 pounds on top of the 2 loudspeakers or at least heavy enough. Of course, iron weight is the best for putting on loudspeakers. Cables for Loudspeakers Cables for loudspeakers haven’t to be very thick and long as it may cause eddy current, the thinner the better, though it doesn’t have to be too thin while it might have higher resistance and it doesn’t do any good to your system as well. And the positive end and the negative end must be shielded up individually. But the ones you can get in the market are mostly in a bundle with no shielding at all. Room Acoustics The sound wave is a kind of energy which travels about 343 metres per second, thus creates problem to the sound quality of the loudspeakers as they continually create sound wave. Room acoustic panels for wave absorbent shall be duly applied to walls and corners. Normally, room for separation in between two loudspeakers is from 6 to 8 feet depending on the size of your drivers. And you can place both sides of your speakers ideally at least 2 to 3 feet away from the walls and corners. If the room isn’t big enough, apply more panels as can be as wave absorbent. Doing so will improve the reflection of sound waves as a result which you can get to know what your system is. You can also get foam and corrugated carton board to make panels at real low cost on your own. But some branded ones are just too expensive. Active Loudspeakers An active loudspeaker means a loudspeaker with an amplifier inside the chassis, an amplifier inside is mostly for the low frequency, but this amplifier may distort the performance of the drivers and the crossovers of the loudspeaker due to electromagnetic flux and vibration take place. This kind of loudspeakers never sounds as good as a regular, passive loudspeaker which doesn’t have an amplifier inside. Individual Chamber for each driver For every loudspeaker I’ll make in the future shall be with individual chamber for each driver and walled by iron sheet. Thus it won’t get interfered one another. Passive crossovers without Compensation Network The quality of Eton drivers is good enough and that’s why I don’t need any compensation network. Compensation networks to some extent don’t do any good to the loudspeakers when they sound and consume unnecessary power output which also doesn’t do good to sound quality. Most people or manufacturers would apply a compensation network to adjust the tone of the sound while the drivers are reproducing annoying sounds. If the drivers are of real good quality, compensation network isn’t necessary. I don’t recommend any electronic crossover, as most electronic crossovers in the market are solid states which won’t sound real good at all unless you would attach a tube buffer to it. 9) Burning CDs & DVDs Section: Black burners Burning CDs with a CD or DVD writer with a black magazine will improve a lot at a real slow speed such as 4 or 8-x as it has less laser refraction and reflection problems. Furthermore we must find way to reduce vibration caused by the revolving mechanism. Black CD-ROMs Burning your CDs with black CD-ROMs, it gets improved in sound quality as well because it has less problem of reflection and refraction of laser beam. Of course, the quality of the PC system you’re using to burn up CD-ROMs is also very crucial. Enhancing the PC for burning Audio DVDs & CDs Most PCs tend to have bugs; it’s not easy to get them work in a perfect condition. All I do is to treat my PC and the monitor as good as my hi-fi system as I shielded it up as much as can be. The main reason why I treat my PC this way is just for burning CDs since I’ve found most original CDs don’t sound real good. I have backed up all software with the black CD-ROMs and used disc copy function of Nero Burning Rom with jitter correction, including OS, burning software, and then I would use all the backup copies of black CD-ROMs to install my PC. By doing so, the whole system would have fewer bugs than the PC installed with the original software. You can also download a software called ‘Gavotte RAM Disk’, then you can make a partition out of the physical ram like at least 1 Gigabyte as a physical hard disk, then applied the virtual memory to it, the whole system will work better than as usual. Or you just can set the virtual memory to 10 Gigabytes if the free space of your hard disc allowed. I would set the virtual memory to another partition in case it’s allowed. And you can also create some partitions with your hard disk just for burning CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs. I have also disabled some services and functions of the Windows XP OS which are automatically working in the background. By the time I am burning any CDs or DVDs, I just want the OS work as little as possible besides the burning software. It’s better to get an external hard disk drive and an external black DVD/CD-ROM writer with a black magazine with external power supply away from your PC, thus minimize the impact of electromagnetic interference. And I would use black CD-ROMs for burning CDs as well. That’s why most CDs and DVDs I have burnt after enhancing the PC which should have been improved and they sound much better than any original CDs. And then I have thrown away all the originals, ha-ha… Original DVDs and CDs don’t sound real good. I have never listened to music with original CDs or DVDs for quite a long time as they don’t sound real good at all. Since my friends taught me how to burn CDs 7 or 8 years ago, I started studying why and how to burn a real good DVD and CD. It’s most crucial factor that CD or DVD is the primary audio source that affects the final output thru the loudspeakers. Firstly, electromagnetic flux also gives serious impacts to recordings as it gives coloration during recording when the recording system, editing system are turned on. One should shield up every cable connected to the system, or else, it’s hard to record a true audio image to live. Secondly, CD is a kind of software with digitally simulated analogue signals which has been die-cast or bumped, then metallic plated. Original CDs made this way tend to have errors as the die may wear out during bumping. That’s the main reason why the first copy will sound best while the last copy; maybe the 10,000th one can’t sound as good as the 1st one. It means that every copy made this way may sound differently as the die may wear out as it bumps again and again. That’s why I would burn it up and the digital signals will be improved in a correct manner through the digital processing of a CPU of computer. That’s why we can’t find original CDs never sound good as real live. Rubbing out the CD/DVD edge You may rub out the CD/DVD edge to improve the sound quality of the CD/DVD. The size of CD gets smaller; it gets more stable during revolving and less friction with the air. Painting up CD/DVD edge in black You can get it improved by using a flat black ‘Zebra’ McKee marker to paint up the CD/DVD edge in black; the sound quality can also improve a little bit, better than doing nothing because it reduces the problems of reading errors influenced by reflection and refraction of the laser beam. Of course, you can also paint it up after rubbing off the CD/DVD edge as the improvement in sound is much better. Recordings concerns… Shielding is also important to all recording systems including digital recorder, mixing system and editing system. EMF also gives coloration and distorts the quality of recordings. But unfortunately, most recording engineers neglect this problem. That’s why there’s not much good quality recording you can get on earth. All these methods I put down here in my blog also do real good to recordings. Unfortunately there are not many good recordings you can get here in Hong Kong both for audio CDs or movie DVDs. Most of them are like junk I can say, bad singing, bad recordings, or badly editing or bad mixing, etc, while some movies from the States give real good live recordings. As for some playhouse in China, you can find some good recordings there too, but for those in Hong Kong, they never do as professional as can be or just spoil things up. Painting up the edge of CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs in black Before you’re burning CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs in black with a flat black ‘Zebra’ McKee marker, this also improves the burning quality because it further reduces the problem of laser reflection and refraction. Warning: Those who wish to burn CD or DVD back-ups must observe and must not violate the law of copyright infringement; otherwise you shall bear all responsibilities or liabilities of legal proceedings at your own risks. Burning Software There are 2 burning programs I strongly recommend that, one is Nero Burning Rom and another is Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6. Especially, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 is a program that’s real good in burning DVD Audio discs, the copies it burns are much better replaying quality than any CDs. You can download the trial versions for trying and burning before you make any decision to buy. There’s free burning software which is also a real good one called ‘Ashampoo Burning Studio 6’, you may download it at the path below: http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-Free.shtml 10) Other Improvements Section: Do-It-Yourself If you’re a DIYER, you’ll have more room to get your system improved and it doesn’t cost much, if not, you can’t find much room for improving the sounds of most branded systems. Cans made of Iron You can get cans out of fruits or juice can, you can get it at any supermarket or store, some cans may fit the size of the tubes you’re using, they can act as a good shielding tool to your tubes and they cost little. Cones that reduce vibration Cones are suggested to place right under loudspeakers and CD or DVD players as they would reduce vibration. Theoretically, 3 cones form perfect plain, but 4 cones will be more appropriate and secure for some heavy objects, and then you can put some weights heavy enough on top to further reduce vibration problem. Partitions with insulated iron Ironclad partitions are crucial especially with power to signals transmission. Signals are easily be distorted by running power which gives serious impact to both video & audio quality. And partitions are real good to loudspeakers as well; there might be a chamber for each driver. Magnetic rings Magnetic rings can block up electromagnetic flux, you can apply them onto the wires or cables with positive poles only. But the effect of improvement for this isn’t as crucial as shielding. Heat reducing You can get some kind of metallic heat sink to reduce heat of transformers and tubes, thus the whole system works better. The higher temperature of your system, the higher the impedance that also distorts the way your system works. What materials for shielding can be applied to? You can get iron sheets or iron mesh pipe, aluminum foils from shops that sell tools or metals. These materials shall be fully wrapped up by 3M vinyl insulating tape or heat-shrinkable insulating pipe, and then applied to any part of the system that carries digital or analogue video and audio signals as isolation to parts that create electromagnetic flux, and then you can find the improvements you can’t even dream of… And these materials are real cheap stuff. The best shielding methods Every cable shall be individually shielded up by iron mesh pipe and aluminum foil which reduce the interference by electromagnetic flux and electric field. Unfortunately, we can hardly find this kind of product on earth unless you make it on your own. Ha-ha… everything is on your own. Aluminum and Copper have a high conductivity, but a low relative permeability. They are good for electric field shielding, but not good for magnetic shielding. Low frequency magnetic field shielding is very difficult with non-ferromagnetic materials like Copper or Aluminum, but very effective with steel or iron (having a high permeability at low frequency). On the other hand, copper and aluminum are very good for electric field shielding due to their high conductivity. You can even braid up every inch of the cables with some cheap quality cables, it also minimize the distortion caused by electromagnetic flux. I applied all these 3 methods to the cables and that’s incredible. Stands made of Iron or Steel Stands for placing your components are best made of iron or steel which shields up electromagnetic field and reduce the distortion to your system caused by EMF. Stands made this way are also heavy enough that vibrations caused by electromagnetic flux and revolving mechanism won’t be coherent with one another. Poles isolation Positive pole and negative pole of any cables or circuit shall be shielded up and isolated. Unfortunately, it’s hardly found any product of inter-connect or speaker cables being shielded up or isolated independently. There’s no such product you can find in the market unless it’s made and designed by yourself. eIn my case I would make a single cable for the positive end and another cable for the negative end separately, and I would name this as uni-axial cable, 2 of these instead of a traditional co-axial cable further reduce EMF impact. Chassis made of iron or steel Chassis made of iron or steel is the best chassis for any electronic systems. Chassis made of aluminum and copper will be only good for electric shielding. Materials must be real thick, firm and heavy to reduce vibrations that caused by EMF. Connecting cables to your loudspeakers It’s better to jam the cables right into the hole of banana jacks of the loudspeakers than to use banana plugs instead. The points of contact of banana jacks are real small which doesn’t do any good to transmission of electrons and sound quality at all. Perfect Triangle It’s best to get a perfect triangle to place your loudspeakers with your seat to enjoy and get the best focus image with your listening environment. Room Acoustic Panels made by corrugated carton board The sound wave travels about 343 metres per second; it means that if the room is about 10 metres long, it travels about 34 times to and fro from one wall to another in a second which also creates sound reflection & refraction and thus distorts the sound wavesBradley Whitford – Signing Autographs at Stage Door
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Ten Reasons to Watch Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is about the behind-the-scenes machinations of a long-running sketch comedy show in the vein of “Saturday Night Live”. As we know from the second episode, Studio 60 also exists in the same universe as Saturday Night Live; they mention it by name a number of times. The difference between the two shows are important. Studio 60 takes place in Los Angeles and is aired on Friday nights. The premise is perfect for an hour-long drama because there is the built-in tension and suspense of putting together a live show with a deadline. And, who isn’t interested about what goes on behind-the-curtain of a show with lots of talent and big egos?