Sonic Reality

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:33 am

Can anyone recomend a computer shop, and music instrument store in the Miami area with smart and honest staff?
Thanks

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:03 am

glokraw wrote:Can anyone recommend a computer shop, and music instrument store in the Miami area with smart and honest staff?
Thanks

Well, the Guitar Center in Hallandale is one I go to a lot and recently the Sam Ash in Miami Lakes because it is close to our studio is a great store. I also recently visited "Space Music" which used to be ACE Music which was my favorite music store growing up. They were bought out by MARS Music unfortunately and then at least the building got bought when MARS went out of business and it is still a music store... but I think part of my love for the place was that they used to have Prophet 5's, Jupiter 8's and CP70's all over the place and I felt like a kid a candy store back then. None of that stuff was anywhere near affordable (imagine paying $5,000 for 5 voices of polyphony!!!!). So it was a dream to go there and play around with the TOYS.

Anyway, I am sure there are some other great stores depending on where you are. There's also www.esoundz.com for the sounds and software which happens to be in South Florida.

As for computer stores... well, Best Buy. Tiger Direct bought Comp USA and there are some good deals in there. I happen to like Circuit City a lot but they are unfortunately a little weak on their computer offerings sometimes... like hard drive choices etc. You might want to look into New Egg for that stuff or something on line depending on what it is.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:25 am

Thanx for the info, and the personal history. Those moments where sounds from new technology are first heard or played are always memorable...like the first strum of
my Green-Stamps electric guitar in the new Fender Twin Reverb my father inexplicably
had purchased for me...

ew · Post by ew » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:39 am

Squids wrote:I also recently visited "Space Music" which used to be ACE Music which was my favorite music store growing up.

Oh yeah

I remember hanging out at ACE back when I was going to school at the U of Miami. A very cool place...

ew

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:59 pm

glokraw wrote:Shops of good repute in Miami?

Come to Vegas I can show you some houses of ill repute...............

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:21 pm

Teksonik wrote:
glokraw wrote:Shops of good repute in Miami?
Come to Vegas I can show you some houses of ill repute...............

I heard that a government agency had to take over and run one of those due to some
legal issues, and then it went belly up. Or would that be '_its up', in biker jargon?

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:14 pm

Well Joe Conforte had some legal "problems" and had to forfeit the Mustang Ranch to the Government although they never tried to run the Brothel. I can't imagine the government trying to run a prostitution operation but I'm sure there are high dollar girls available for the pleasure of Congressmen and Senators in Washington.

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:31 pm

Teksonik wrote: I can't imagine the government trying to run a prostitution operation...

Really? Have you read a newspaper at any time in the past decade or so?

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:33 pm

Teksonik wrote:Well Joe Conforte had some legal "problems" and had to forfeit the Mustang Ranch to the Government although they never tried to run the Brothel. I can't imagine the government trying to run a prostitution operation but I'm sure there are high dollar girls available for the pleasure of Congressmen and Senators in Washington.

from condidential un-named sources:

Given government's usual repression of prostitution, one might have expected officials to be pleased that the brothel had closed. Not so. When a federal bankruptcy judge turned Mustang Ranch over to US Bankruptcy trustee Jeri Coppa, she considered it her top priority to immediately get the bordello back in business. As her office saw it, the closure could not have come at a worse time. The Reno Air Races were to be held that Saturday, and normally this would be he busiest weekend of the year at Mustang Ranch. The whorehouse could not afford to lose so many potential customers if it was to pay off the IRS and its secured creditors.

"I'm trying to get the girls back, straighten out the business licenses, insurance, and work permits, blood tests - and get the place back open," Ms. Coppa, the federal bankruptcy trustee, told Chronicle reporter Kevin Leary three days before the Air Races. "It's a new experience for me. I've never run a whorehouse before. But about 20 girls have signed up so far, and the bar manager and floor maids are anxious to get back to work."

In any case, the federal government with unusual alacrity managed to reopen Mustang Ranch just in time for the Air Races. Later the ranch was sold at auction, where it was purchased by an associate of Conforte

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:57 pm

Teksonik wrote:Well Joe Conforte had some legal "problems" and had to forfeit the Mustang Ranch to the Government although they never tried to run the Brothel. I can't imagine the government trying to run a prostitution operation but I'm sure there are high dollar girls available for the pleasure of Congressmen and Senators in Washington.

You can't imagine that? Haha.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:28 pm

glokraw wrote:
In any case, the federal government with unusual alacrity managed to reopen Mustang Ranch just in time for the Air Races. Later the ranch was sold at auction, where it was purchased by an associate of Conforte

I stand corrected, the government did try to run the Brothel, unsucessfully.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:30 pm

Squids wrote:
Teksonik wrote:Well Joe Conforte had some legal "problems" and had to forfeit the Mustang Ranch to the Government although they never tried to run the Brothel. I can't imagine the government trying to run a prostitution operation but I'm sure there are high dollar girls available for the pleasure of Congressmen and Senators in Washington.
You can't imagine that? Haha.

No I can't imagine them running it with any effeciency. They've been running an operation that has resulted in many people getting screwed but it's not officially called a Brothel.