God doesn't need to know what time it is.

larsman

583 posts

03-23-2022 at 06:34pm 

@secretguy + 1  Though I wouldn't say Clapton can't play - he obviously can and has done so for decades - he just doesn't play anything I'd care to listen to! 

He's a hack. Any actual, trained musician would agree.

«God is the clock in your heart and  the clock maker himself but  you can throw the 2 hands of the clock at whichever time   you want to be...» Anonymus widow  of a watchmaker 

bdp24--I owned an original ’65 Deluxe Reverb for 20 years and never understood why everyone else thought it was the desert island amp (and just where do you find electricity on a desert island?). I later found that what I really wanted was a Vibrolux Reverb. Different strokes, I suppose.

I lost my last watch years ago and never replaced it.

secretguy, I am an actual trained musician and I think the stuff EC did from Mayall through Blind Faith is outstanding.  Love the studio solos with Cream.

I thought this was going to be a thread about the use or non use of master clocks for dacs, etc.  

I don’t even wear a watch.  A friend gave me some very good copies of expensive watches.  She thought it might be a nice accessory, as I was on the dating scene a number of years ago, but always forgot to wear them.  I did buy a super expensive bottle of Creed men’s cologne that was quite helpful.  

@jrpnde: Gordon Lightfoot's Bobby McGee is my favorite version of that song. Good recording, too.

In 1973 I was visiting the newly-opened Audio Arts in Livermore California on the very day Bill Johnson was delivering and installing his complete ARC system (Thorens TD-125 table, ARC's pro-type arm which never made it into production, Decca Blue cartridge, SP-3 pre-amp, Magneplanar Tympani T-I loudspeakers bi-amped with D51 and D75 amps. The sound blew my young mind. Later in the year that system was in my house ;-) in the shop's listening room. AA proprietor Walter Davies played that very track, and Johnson remarked on the good sq of the recording. I bought a copy of the album (If You Could Read My Mind), when I got back to San Jose, and still have it.

Ry Cooder is a guitarist's guitarist. Good taste is (heh) timeless.