Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
For me, the main point is how passionate he was about music and how he assembled some neat technology to chase it.
Yeah, that's the problem with skimming - you can easily miss the main point.

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To be sure, not a particularly happy ending but at least he chased his dream. Did it say how he made his money?

So you're still not going to read the article you posted a link to?

He started a company that made fiberglass molds, and sunk all the money into his hobby.

Here's one part you missed:

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“Nobody wanted to come to our house, because he wanted to put them to work,” said his daughter Patty, 58. “I think we went camping twice, never took vacation. It was just work, work, work.”
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“Growing up, I had to get up at 6 in the morning to work,” Kurt, 55, said. “I basically was his slave.”
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The big blowup with Kurt came in 2018, about two years after Fritz had declared that, at last, the world’s greatest stereo and listening room was complete. Kurt, on a visit home, decided to ask his father for a couple of family heirlooms: his grandfather’s 1955 Chevy and an old Rek-O-Kut turntable.

It wasn’t the size of the ask. The record player wasn’t worth more than a few hundred dollars. But the tone of the demand set off Fritz. He heard in it a sense of entitlement.

“It could have been a monkey wrench, the way he told me,” Fritz recalled later. “I told him: ‘Not going to happen.’”

It was past 1 a.m. when Kurt, with a few drinks in him, told his father he was going to stay up later and listen to some more music. All the work he had put into building that stereo system — pouring concrete, painting the walls — now Kurt wanted to enjoy it.

But Fritz hit the off switch on the Krells. And Kurt delivered the words the two of them could never come back from.

“I need you to die slow, m-----f-----,” he told his father. “Die slow.”

-- David Cuny

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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

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