5/10/2024 0 Comments Julius sumner miller inertia![]() So, why then am I writing about this if so much is missing? I’ll have to keep digging, ’cause they need to be added to all this, if for no other reason that to remind me how goofy we could be, with the weird exception of “Plastic Money” that is in the playlist below, as is “Aborigines in Suburbia” which though technically wasn’t a Doughheads song, it was a multi-track experiment from that same time. There’s even video of some of this, I kid you not.Īlas – almost none of those songs seem to be in my archive, and that’s bizarre beyond all reason as I -know- I’ve got them on tape somewhere. Ruth” and “The Spring Break Balcony Blues” all got committed to tape. I’m surely forgetting some, but some weird magic happened here, songs like “Black Lung”, “The World is So Beautiful”, “Living My Life in a Box”, “Dr. Doug Duekker was Mad Angus Pa’gorney, Sarah Greek was Xerox Pink. Doug was Bobby Manangus, I was Otis Spivey. Later, the recording process got a little more refined down the hall in the new studios of WNKU, and a cast of others started mucking about with us in different planes of existence, and the band began to form characters. Genius material like “Plastic Money”, “The Slow Loris Song” and “Youth Out Of Place” were dragged into existence. So… I started playing, Tim banged on my guitar case for a beat, and Doug made up words in a bad British accent. We also had recently discovered that recording to a cart (old-school single-play tapes used in broadcasting – essentially the pro version of old 8-tracks) and feeding the signal back into itself generated a not-quite-unpleasant tape echo. ![]() Good utter crap though, and I stand by that assessment.ĭoug, Tim and I ended up in the radio production room and discovered plugging my guitar directly into the broadcasting board and cranked up all the way sounded rather like an electrified banjo (for lack of better description). What ended up happening is hard to explain, and much of it is utter crap. One day I brought my guitar in to do some mucking about with recording for a class project I needed to do. I worked in the radio/tv studio office booking time in the rooms along with Paul McDonald (BPK) and a ton of students who would come into the office and hang out, among them Doug Cribbs and Tim Eviston. I think the diameter difference is the biggest factor, but additional friction due to larger contact patches and possible much heavier tires x 4 (despite lighter wheels) also might contribute to the overall sluggish feeling.The Doughheads started near the end of my junior year at Northern Kentucky University. It's similar to changing a rear end differential gear from 3.55:1 to a 3.37:1 (or 3.30:1 factoring in tire wear). One thing to note is that you didn't actually reduce horsepower your engine produces, just the effective torque multiplication from the drivetrain. From an overall acceleration standpoint, it'll be slightly slower in a given gear assuming same rpm range, but you'll be able to hold lower gears to higher speeds (5-7% higher depending on old tire wear) due to the extra gearing, making up some of that lost ground over the course of acceleration through multiple gears. If the car was near but not quite sluggish before, that 7% gearing change could put it over the edge. That's like reducing your engine torque 7% (e.g., from 410 ft-lbs to 381 ft-lbs assuming 7% drop). That difference causes higher overall effective gear ratio, which is probably noticeable from a seat of the pants perspective. If your previous tires were somewhat worn, that 5% could be actually 7% due to the tires losing diameter as they wear. The diameter difference between new 265/35/20 and 315/35/20 tires is about 5% for new tires.
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