Sad sign of the times – well that does depend on your point of view – but back at the dawn of the commercial computer industry, the youth of the day bought a cheap guitar, found an old tea chest and bit of thick string, stole their mother’s broom handle to make a rudimentary bass, raided the scullery again for their mother’s washboard and her workbasket for a set of metal thimbles, and called themselves a skiffle group, making hit records even, with songs written by people such as Woody Guthrie and Huddy Ledbetter; among the credits on Maria Carey’s third album Music Box (why album? Well back in the days of 78 rpm records, you could get between five and six minutes a side on a 12 shellac record, so to present a body of work, several of these were needed, and they were packaged up in a bound album of cardboard record sleeves) – there appears among the credits Gary Crimelli: Macintosh and Synclavier Programming.
