Frequently Asked Questions
About Bo Berry's 1970 Rock n Roll Machine
You need to download and install the Crescento plug-in. Q: Why won't the real audio tracks play on my computer? Why do I get an error message when I try to play the songs? A: You probably don't have the Real Player plug-in installed on your machine. Download Real Player. Q: Why did you put those dinky sounding midi files on this site? They sound like crap. A: You probably have an old or cheap (made into the motherboard) sound card. If so, you should upgrade to a sound card with at least a 32 voice wave synthesizer. If you still don't appreciate the midi music, just use the media player control panel to shut them off. Q: Why 1970? What's so great about 1970? A: 1970 was the first year of the modern rock era. It was a transitional year. The sixties psychedelic sound was on the way out. The Beatles broke up. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died in 1970. Heavy metal was born. But mainly it's because 1970 is the year I discovered Rock 'n' Roll and I think it was a great year for rock music. Q: Some of the biggest hits of 1970,( eg. Bridge over troubled Waters, Close to you) aren't on the list. Why not? A: I tried to make this list reflect the way I remember 1970. I choose not to remember those songs. Anyway, they're not in my collection. Q: Will there be more pages like this, perhaps covering other years? A: It depends on the response to this site. I'm considering a similiar page for the year 1955. Q: Why don't you put sound clips of entire songs on the web site? A: For one thing, I would need a lot more bandwidth. The average sound clip I've recorded is about 40 seconds long and occupies about 80k bytes of disc space using Real Audio compression. Let's say I have 130 songs times 80kb. That more than 10 megabytes just in sound files. Complete songs would take up several times that. Also copyright holders of the music wouldn't be happy if people could just download their entire record for free. Q: If this site is about rock n roll, why are bubblegum songs like "I Think I Love You" on the list? A: Technically, bubblegum is style of music under the genre of rock n roll. So sue me, I like some of those old bubblegum songs.
Q: Why won't the real audio tracks play on my computer? Why do I get an error message when I try to play the songs?
A: You probably don't have the Real Player plug-in installed on your machine. Download Real Player.
Q: Why did you put those dinky sounding midi files on this site? They sound like crap.
A: You probably have an old or cheap (made into the motherboard) sound card. If so, you should upgrade to a sound card with at least a 32 voice wave synthesizer. If you still don't appreciate the midi music, just use the media player control panel to shut them off.
Q: Why 1970? What's so great about 1970?
A: 1970 was the first year of the modern rock era. It was a transitional year. The sixties psychedelic sound was on the way out. The Beatles broke up. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died in 1970. Heavy metal was born. But mainly it's because 1970 is the year I discovered Rock 'n' Roll and I think it was a great year for rock music.
Q: Some of the biggest hits of 1970,( eg. Bridge over troubled Waters, Close to you) aren't on the list. Why not?
A: I tried to make this list reflect the way I remember 1970. I choose not to remember those songs. Anyway, they're not in my collection.
Q: Will there be more pages like this, perhaps covering other years?
A: It depends on the response to this site. I'm considering a similiar page for the year 1955.
Q: Why don't you put sound clips of entire songs on the web site?
A: For one thing, I would need a lot more bandwidth. The average sound clip I've recorded is about 40 seconds long and occupies about 80k bytes of disc space using Real Audio compression. Let's say I have 130 songs times 80kb. That more than 10 megabytes just in sound files. Complete songs would take up several times that. Also copyright holders of the music wouldn't be happy if people could just download their entire record for free.
Q: If this site is about rock n roll, why are bubblegum songs like "I Think I Love You" on the list?
A: Technically, bubblegum is style of music under the genre of rock n roll. So sue me, I like some of those old bubblegum songs.
