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I'm going back to the mid 90's here. Longmill were still called Pine, who were a cheap ripoff of Alpine. They did massive car amps that put out 2000W pmpo absolute total max peak, er, power into 1-ohm, which amounted to around 4W rms per channel into normal speakers.
Anyone who was anyone had a white RS Turbo with blacked out back windows and it was so stuffed full of amps and speakers it was lower at the back than at the front. This would all get stolen one night and be replaced within a week, this time with a brand new ultrasonic Clifford alarm guarding it and the car would be plastered with Clifford stickers all over the windows instead of the Alpine logo ones.
The owner, a trainee plasterer, wore blue Versace jeans, untucked Armani shirt, Reebok classics, a small gold earring in one ear and a greasy French crop. He stank of Eternity by Calvin Klein. Walked with a bit of a geezer swagger.
Scene is set right?
So what you don't see any more is people with blacked out back windows and massive stereos. I remember the streets were full of shops rammed with car audio and you'd regularly have a car stop next to you at the lights that nearly blew your clothes off with so much bass.
There was a van that used to go past my parent's place that used to shake the ground in the garden when it went past. You'd be out there and think they were outside the house but it would just keep getting louder and louder until it drowned out all the background London noise and the ground was rumbling. This was a black van called Earthquake if I remember and it was a sound-off van. I saw it once at a Max Power show and the whole back of it was full of racks of speakers purely to make decibels. Anyone remember it?
Deptford was the place to buy all this stuff. A properly seedy part of S London back then and you wouldn't walk around there at night. There were two shops; one did mainly PA and concert kit (in fact, it's still there) and the other shop did car audio. They had a HUGE yellow 21" car speaker hanging in the window and a really cool 18" folded horn in the shop with a thick clear perspex side so you could see it working.
So what happened to all that scene? Does anyone still do it?
Anyone who was anyone had a white RS Turbo with blacked out back windows and it was so stuffed full of amps and speakers it was lower at the back than at the front. This would all get stolen one night and be replaced within a week, this time with a brand new ultrasonic Clifford alarm guarding it and the car would be plastered with Clifford stickers all over the windows instead of the Alpine logo ones.
The owner, a trainee plasterer, wore blue Versace jeans, untucked Armani shirt, Reebok classics, a small gold earring in one ear and a greasy French crop. He stank of Eternity by Calvin Klein. Walked with a bit of a geezer swagger.
Scene is set right?
So what you don't see any more is people with blacked out back windows and massive stereos. I remember the streets were full of shops rammed with car audio and you'd regularly have a car stop next to you at the lights that nearly blew your clothes off with so much bass.
There was a van that used to go past my parent's place that used to shake the ground in the garden when it went past. You'd be out there and think they were outside the house but it would just keep getting louder and louder until it drowned out all the background London noise and the ground was rumbling. This was a black van called Earthquake if I remember and it was a sound-off van. I saw it once at a Max Power show and the whole back of it was full of racks of speakers purely to make decibels. Anyone remember it?
Deptford was the place to buy all this stuff. A properly seedy part of S London back then and you wouldn't walk around there at night. There were two shops; one did mainly PA and concert kit (in fact, it's still there) and the other shop did car audio. They had a HUGE yellow 21" car speaker hanging in the window and a really cool 18" folded horn in the shop with a thick clear perspex side so you could see it working.
So what happened to all that scene? Does anyone still do it?
