My Super flexible Tri-Ax cable. Who did I loan it it??

[nick franco]

I remember that one. Was demoing for CP at that show. High-tailed in my car back to Boston well after most sane people considered the city shut down, like the wiseass I was.

 

Was?

[Peter Abraham]

Sorry, Alan, that was literally 20 years ago and all my notes got left behind when I left CPC. I do remember it was a custom run that they would only do if we ordered 1000' of it. As far as I know we got all they made. I don't even remember which company made it.

 

Peter, I remember demonstrating that cable to you in our suite at The Hilton during ShowBiz East in '94(?) just before the big storm hit and shut down the city. I had told you in advance that we had a new ultra-flexible cable and you poo-pooed it as you had found some new flexible cable of your own. You picked up a piece of the cable by one end and it hung down as limp as a well-cooked spaghetti noodle. You just stared at it and, after a second or two, went "You win". I think we all won, my friend.

 

Jim

 

Ha ! -Blushing- Yeah, that does sound like me... See, I was all hot on the Mogami 2964 which is still available and in my kit. It's a neoprene-jacketed coax. I use it with the Kings connectors when permitted. Great stuff, even in the cold. So there I was, all high and mighty about my Mogami and you came in and slayed me with that silicone-jacketed Triax. Done deal. You remember correctly. My ONLY mistake was in not buying two of them.

 

January 6, 1996. The Great Blizzard. The day I made a handshake deal to buy my Master Series Elite rig. I wandered the floor until I knew it was time to go up to the suite that C.P. had rented. When I entered the hotel the sky was that delightful leaden gray, but not a flake to be seen. In the intervening 3 or 4 hours until I got to their suite, all hell had broken loose. I looked out the huge picture windows to see....nothing. The snow was blowing so heavily that you couldn't see the building across the side street from the hotel.

 

I made my deal. Was handed a teal colored T Shirt with the new "Steadicam" logo on the front and " The Master Series" on the back. Jim remarked to me, " Congratulations, Peter. You just paid $ 42,000 for a t shirt ! " and off I went to get my car. The drive from NYC to Monroe NY with normal traffic would have taken me 60-70 minutes. It took over 4 hours to get home that day.

 

Charles, thanks for at least telling me where it is. When I am next in L.A., may I have a visitation with it?