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In Reply to: Bass posted by Inmate51 on May 7, 2024 at 13:38:43:
My high school was kind of interesting. If you played an instrument, much depended on your gender. Guys were recruited into Band. Girls were whisked into the orchestra. My future wife played violin, so she was placed into the orchestra.
After all these years, my wife found a place, which could fix her violin, which she last played, when she was at Cal. Nowadays, when she's at home, she uses a practice mute.
When I got to UC Santa Cruz, its mascot was already the Banana Slug. Throughout my four years there, I believe that the gender ratio hovered around 52% female, 48% male.
Since the school opened in 1965, 1990 (which was when I entered "high-end audio") was UCSC's 25th anniversary. Yeah, lots was made of 1965 being the Vietnam War. Yes, some of our students were born in Vietnam, and during the war. But the celebrations were more of culture, coming together, and looking towards the future. And yes, much of the wonderful popular music of the late-60s and early-70s was brought back.
But oh man, as soon as I moved in, I came across the double standard of (a) us guys freely going around without a shirt, and (b) the scowls and frowns, at the girls who went around topless.
Some readers are really astute, and deduced that many of the UCSC guys went around naked. This took place in the relative privacy of our dorm(s). But on those sunny and warm weekends, when minimal staff was around, naked guys could relax in our quads.
On some Friday or Saturday nights, when they weren't in the mood to party, my roommate and his friends (2-to-1 male-to-female) would grab flashlights, walk into the woods, find a gathering spot, get naked, and smoke weed. When he came back to our room, he'd nod, "Yep, that's why UCSC stands for UC Smoke Cannabis."
My friend Kim (who was born in Ho Chi Minh City) would put on shades, flash a smile, stare at guys, and remark, "You're damn well right I want the guys to see me staring at them!"
If I knew a guy Kim was staring at, she'd ask me about his pros and cons. Oh well, that just sharpened your skills as an audiophile, being able to parse out a product's good, bad, and mediocre qualities.
When I was in the Crown-Merrill apartments, our community room had an upright piano. I believe it was November 1992. One night, a guy and his roommate brought the piano to the landing in front of their ground-floor unit. The guy just went with whatever the mood was, and decided to plunk away. The roommate even played an acoustic guitar, and hummed along. After he was done (actually, it started to sprinkle), he and the roommate wheeled the piano back to the community room.
A couple weeks later, staff put up a sign above the piano, warning us not to move it!
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