[BC] A Prairie Home Companion, the film

[Jeff Johnson]

Yes, the mics on stage were RE27's, except Keillor's which was an RCA 77. I 
would guess that the RCA was a reproduction. It looked way new.

There was no suggestion of the station in the movie as being in financial 
trouble.

Jeff.Johnson at goodnews.net,CSRE
RFPROOF.COM

>I indend to see it; I have developed the bad habit of missing movies I 
>want to see lately.  I blew the chance to see Al Gore's film last weekend 
>and now it's gone.   Anyway, I notice in the PHC newspaper ads that the 
>cast are all using re27s.   I don't know why, but there's something about 
>that that strikes me as slightly amusing, I guess because when I went to 
>see the live real PHC a few years ago, when they were at Medinah Temple in 
>Chicago, they weren't using 27s (can't remember what they had) and a RE27 
>(getting back to the movie now) is a pretty expensive mic for a station in 
>financial trouble.  Okay, I'm falling prey to the tendency to pick apart 
>any entertainment that has anything to do with something I know enough 
>about, to be dangerous
><g>
>
>rob atkinson
>st. charles IL