September 11, 2005
Lowering the Tone
Thanks to the surprisingly good but terribly named 'Shameful Secrets of the 70s' on Sky I am on the road to re-living my childhood. Featured on Saturday’s show was the Casio VL Tone, pictured left.
Now, when I was a kid I would have sold my granny for one of these. I was so jealous of my friend who had one and I used all the pester power I could muster, and this was before pester power was recognized as an official power, I think then we just had ‘nuclear’ and it’s old adversary ‘flower’. It is not so much that I wanted to be a musician, we had had tried a few piano lessons unsuccessfully, I think it was because I had a crush on Richard Clayderman (my sister was infatuated with Julio Iglesias - we were odd kids who grew up in the colonies - say no more)
Anyway my mother, rather sensibly, wouldn't let me have one. I was not exactly the best behaved of children and adding excess noise to the general ankle biting assault on her senses was always avoided where possible. So I never got one and I never married Richard Clayderman, which is lucky as he is a very unattractive man and, as I am no stunner myself, the genetic pool would have been very unsightly.
So, when I saw the Casio on Sky I thought ‘ebay-tastic’ and I was delighted to find that there are about three hundred thousand available for around the fifty pence mark. I look forward to uploading my first composition!