The Nazi Tape Machine That Gave Us Rock & Roll

This article was written by Joshua Heath Scott, the owner of the excellent JHS Pedals. It’s too long to just paste here. If you want to know where tape machines and your delay plugins and pedals evolved from, this is a must-read. It’s fascinating.

The Nazi Tape Machine That Gave Us Rock & Roll

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A while back he made a BBC Radio 2 documentary called Third Reich and Roll, presented by Stephen Fry, and I recently dove into it head first.

I checked, it’s not up on the beeb :frowning:

No?

EDIT:

Definitely no. :confused:

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Pretty amazing all the capital for R&D. After the war debt from WWI, you have to scratch your head and wonder where it all came from.

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A combination of deficit spending (Mefo Bills etc) pre war and during the war large supply of slave labour from occupied territories.

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His rant was both very funny and very spot on at the same time. “Every Brit living today who was alive during the war was effectively fighting on the side of Germany.” :rofl:

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@fennario & @howard - I have a recording. PN me…

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I thought we weren’t supposed to mention The War

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Censored?

Looks like a job for V

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ahahaha. love that movie

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Absolutely