Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/24/how-pioneering-dj-grandmaster.html
…
11 Likes
And that, people, is a reason we need to revive vo-tech programs in high schools.
Education and skills for kids whose intelligence and learning style are hands on.
19 Likes
I’ve heard a little bit about this before, though not in detail. Also around that era it was typical for musicians, engineers, etc to have to wire and/or build some of the studio electronics themselves, at least that’s my rough understanding from listening to Questlove talk about it in some interviews with older musicians.
6 Likes
This is what makes America great.
10 Likes
Can’t give this enough likes. 
3 Likes
Cool stuff.
There was a historical Hip Hop exhibit at the local museum a couple months ago called ‘Respect’; the installment featured all sorts of memorabilia, including Grandmaster Flash’s first turntables.
7 Likes
Radio Shack!
Also, when he says “to the left” it’s the most Grandmaster Flash thing ever.
3 Likes
Radio Shack sold a mixer in the eighties that had cueing switches for the turntables. His hack must have predated that. Perhaps he inspired them to add that feature!
I hacked two of those Realistic mixers together to make the mixer for my pirate station Radio Limbo in 1998.
6 Likes
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
