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I don't get a refund because I leave half the year and about half the- half of this- half of the classes smartened up and- and left. Um, and because I had- basically I was- it didn't interfere with anything else with me, so I- I says, "Oh well, I'll stick it out and," ... |
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Speaker: ... he says, "It may be repeated," and I remember type-of- I had just bought my um, my first decent tape machine, tape deck, put it all together in the sound system. I says, "I'm gonna" Interviewer: Tape it. Speaker: "I'm gonna tape this." I'm not- I'm not necessarily going to listen to it, but I says, I says, you-know, "One-hour tape here okay, so I gotta come back in forty-five minutes and- and change it over," so I put a stopwatch type-of-thing, and I says, "Okay, record," and you wen-- you-know, if you went away I mean, you were in |
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remember type-of- I had just bought my um, my first decent tape machine, tape deck, put it all together in the sound system. I says, "I'm gonna" Interviewer: Tape it. Speaker: "I'm gonna tape this." I'm not- I'm not necessarily going to listen to it, but I says, I says, you-know, "One-hour tape here okay, so I gotta come back in forty-five minutes and- and change it over," so I put a stopwatch type-of-thing, and I says, "Okay, record," ... |
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Started growing crop and the dampness got into the- all the woodwork in the piano type-of-thing and- and- and popped all the- the- the you-know the veneer and everything else and I s-- you-know, type-of-thing and I thought, "Son-of-a-" I says I- I says "I'm sure it's still salvageable, but now it's three times the work that's-" um the soundboard is still okay, and- but a lot of- a lot of the other stuff got damaged just through dampness, through- |
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He couldn't get rid of it type-of-thing. It was just- so I says, "This is what I want. I want this, this, you-know, this businesses, this," And I says, "I want the colour lab from the other store. This this and this." And he's- and I says, "Give me a price." Looked at me and he goes, "Here's a pr-- you-know, okay, this is what I want for it." And he says, "That'll," he says, "That'll just finish off my greenhouse up north." |
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... you don't- you don't keep a lot of money in a current account, but I says, "That and- and- and the- and this money." "Okay, fine." I go, "Okay, deal, done!" And he says, "Well," he says, "One thing," he says, "You don't get the air-conditioner. You gotta ta- - help me take that out and take that up north. I want that. |
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It was a huge train air-conditioner hanging over the door and I says- and I looked at it and I thought, "Yeah okay," I was young, I says (fake Russian accent) "a nice strong boy." Okay, I go, "I go do it for you, sure, I help you put it in." |
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Interviewer: He got what he wanted. Speaker: But that was part of the deal and I says, "Okay fine," and I lucked out. And basically I got equipment and stuff that you- you-know, no mortgage, I mean you- you-know, type-of-thing. It was- the value of a small house at that time could buy this stuff, I got for a song. |
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And I still remember you-know, today type- of-thing, I says, "I got-" this is out of a three-hundred-sixty-five day year, I was getting one-point-one calls a day. And I said, "Now out of- and out of those half of them were junk. People trying to sell me something." I says, "Another- and out of that, twenty-five percent of those left over were people checking to see if orders were ready, things were done." |
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'Cause it was ninety-two it actually started to dip down, and I went through ninety-three, and I says, "Well I went through," I says, "I went through the eighty-two, eighty-three and came out the other side." I said, "Well let's see if I can do it this time." |
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... I thought, "Well, um yes it's I-E we'll buy the ticket. it's you-know, the good cause, kind-of-thing, but as for going for the- for the concert part of it," I says, "Unless you- you get right up close within the first how many rows of people they would be you would consider as rows," they said, "it's- it's outside. it's in- the sound is going to go here and it's gonna dissipate and all you're gonna hear is (makes sound)." And I says, "Well-" |
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Yeah if you can see him type-of-thing by bringing your binoculars because you-know, fifty feet away, these people start getting small. And you go, "Hey is that Mick?" And, and the thing is, damn they're not coming on until ten-o-clock and I says, "They're only gonna do two sets and I've been here all day and I'm red as a beet." |
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He says, "After that basically, it was people laying on the ground getting burnt." And I says, "But that's like any concert," I says, "That's why you-know, if you like that atmosphere then yeah, you go." Then- and it's just to say, "I was there," and to be part of that type-of-thing. "I was there." You didn't go for the music type-of-thing ... |
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And I said, "Well, we ordered this, this, and this and this," and I says, "But there's two more boxes." And he says, "Oh, those are Oscar," and put them up in the- put them up. |
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Speaker: He says, "No," and I says- and I says, "Well but I knew you were friends with him and because he was giving- like, Oscar was buying expensive equipment and giving it to him," you-know, type-of-thing. He says "(inc) you know?" I sort-of went, I says, "Oh, oh this is nice. This is expensive, did you buy this?" He says, "No, Oscar gave it to me," and I went, "Aww!" I says, "Aww, why can't I have friends like that!" Interviewer: Why can't I be friends with a famous singer? |
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None of the streetlights are working here either," I says, "It must be a system wide- in this- in this area type-of-thing. A system wide power failure type-of-thing in this area." And then I- I go down Highway-ten, I go- at Caledon, I cross over to Heartlake-Road, and go down Heartlake-Road. |
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Interviewer: They're out. So then you knew- Speaker: And I go, "Okay, this is not good." And I said- I says, "Now what is this?" I said, " So power is out." And all I thought was, "Why is it out? Terrorist? Who did what?" |
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So she was sitting on the front porch, and she's barely be able to talk and she's doing this, poor- type-of-thing, is poor dear, I says, "there's nothing, unfortunately there's nothing I can do for you until they- until they fix this mess up." |
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When it blows from the other way from the south, you can hear the twenty-seven. You-know, the Q-E-W type-of-thing. You can- you can hear it now. Um, but when it's- and I hear it. I says, "Streetcar's running!" you-know, "Power! there's no- there's no power here. Streetcar's running." |
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