Gil Scott-Heron Boombox
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I would tend to agree except for the black control knobs...not National/Panasonic style for this type of boomer.redbenjoe said:
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I teach Gill Scott-Heron to my students. There's plenty of his stuff on the net, starting from Youtube. So they have no problems with sources, and I encourage them to customize their search. One of their favorites, We Beg Your Pardon, is a lesser-known poem than The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, yet no less relevant:
When I saw this post I thought I had a moral commitment in identifying the box of the late poet. Tre was right, it's a lesser-known, yet no less relevant Sanyo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCfEkopryo
When I saw this post I thought I had a moral commitment in identifying the box of the late poet. Tre was right, it's a lesser-known, yet no less relevant Sanyo:
Sanyo M 9915
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Thanks guys, it's always a pleasure to find out what's what. But precision is never an option, and I shouldn't have been carried away by enthusiasm. The Sanyo M 9915 K of my previous post -- which am proud to have found in excellent conditions -- has a different color scheme than the unit portrayed in the Scott-Heron video.
Of course I had already noticed it. But mine is the European, i.e. continental version. Hence, I reasoned, I only needed to find out the right American model to solve the problem. Yet the more I surfed the net, the less I was able to find the phantom Sanyo M 9915 "X" I was after.
Then it occurred to me that in the US Sanyos were often rebranded Sears. The moment I realized where the problem was, I nailed it: the box is one of the 2100 series with "a pretty long model number"
as the author of the following video has it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMi7vJOP0w
To be precise -- if sight assists me -- Gil Scott-Heron's boombox was a Sears SR 2100 Model n° 564.21940150
What do you think? Meanwhile, here is another Youtube video with the same unit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvEKj2PMdZg
Of course I had already noticed it. But mine is the European, i.e. continental version. Hence, I reasoned, I only needed to find out the right American model to solve the problem. Yet the more I surfed the net, the less I was able to find the phantom Sanyo M 9915 "X" I was after.
Then it occurred to me that in the US Sanyos were often rebranded Sears. The moment I realized where the problem was, I nailed it: the box is one of the 2100 series with "a pretty long model number"
as the author of the following video has it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMi7vJOP0w
To be precise -- if sight assists me -- Gil Scott-Heron's boombox was a Sears SR 2100 Model n° 564.21940150
What do you think? Meanwhile, here is another Youtube video with the same unit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvEKj2PMdZg
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