77jovian
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| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? Wow, wow, wow, so many shows here I would love to have seen! Thanks for the memories, folks. Among my favorites: My first large concert on a visit to Phoenix, 1970, Blues Image, whom I’d never heard of, knocked my stuffing out, I never knew the... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. While you're completing your tour of the Coens' oeuvre, please watch Barton Fink and then write me and tell me what the Hell that was about! Interesting how I can so enjoy a movie that I have no understanding of at all (like Lynch's Mulholland Dr... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. @bdp24 I admit that part of my affection for The Fortune Cookie is because I practiced law for 40 years and the TFC is a perfect send-up of personal injury lawsuits. And great in other ways, too. Probably my career also heightens my appreciat... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. +1 for Jean de Florette and its sequel, Manon of the Spring....breathtakingly beautiful and heart-rending Hear My Song...little known, funny, touching and wonderful music Chaplin's City Lights...maybe my all-time favorite Billy Wilder's The Fo... | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. @grislybutter "I am no expert." Me either...and I got one of my first kisses at a junior high school dance with the Carpenters' "Close to You" playing in the background. She will be forever be among my favorites just for that. | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. @grislybutter like I said, I’m a fan. She deserves her place among pop history’s best loved. But she sang in a very narrow range of pitch, dynamics, style and color, things that count for me in the tabulation of the best voice category. | |
| Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago. I'm a fan and still listen to some of their albums. I really admire and enjoy Karen's voice and, especially, Richard's arrangements and production. But, world class singer or drummer? If someone can point me to examples of her world-class drumm... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? I listen to a variety of channels on Sirius, mostly in the car. However, Sirius channels are compressed and eq’d to be bass-heavy, and FM generally sounds warmer and less like 1’s and 0’s, so I often listen to classical on FM. But I like the con... | |
| Favorite Album Cover (picture or art on the cover) Blue Cheer Inside Outside Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy Tom Waits Heart of Saturday Night The Waybacks Burger After Church | |
| Black Sabbath and Jazz fans? Speaking of jazz cover bands, I’ve always liked Jazz is Dead. Grateful Dead music seems to lend itself to jazz interpretation. And this one’s become a real favorite of mine…Big Band of Brothers, excellent big band charts and performance of A... | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse @thecarpathian hit the nail on the head. Life is an adventure, I’d take his trip in a heartbeat, just for the fun of it. And I’d stop at every roadside Historical Marker and scenic spot, and hit some local bakery and coffee shops, too. Have a m... | |
| How Many Times Do You Have To Listen To Understand A Piece Of Music? I think understanding is different than appreciating. I can think of simple songs I understood first listen but have grown to appreciate over time. My appreciation can wax or wane as I grow, mature and change. I often need to understand before I... | |
| Any interest in a pair of old thiel’s CS1.2 Well, I'm not sure they can make polkas sound great (!) but I used to have a pair and loved them. Good luck! | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Steve Goodman Live Wire, and The Easter Tapes Marshall Tucker Band Carolina Dreams Tour ‘77 Chuck Mangione Live at the Hollywood Bowl Claire Lynch Crowd Favorites Mark O’Connor Band Live Chicago IV Tommy Emmanuel Live One Great Ceaser’s Gho... | |
| My All Time Christmas Song Additional albums in Christmas rotation… Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Wishes You a Swingin Christmas David Grisman’s Acoustic Christmas Take 6, WeWish You a Merry Christmas Mpact, The Carol Commission Bob Rivers’ Twisted Christmas |