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| A great has died Here's a great little video about The Band (and Garth Hudson in particular) posted on YouTube about a year ago. The thoughts and feelings expressed by the video's maker align very closely with mine. https://youtu.be/eLBux4PNvl8?si=ij6_vJHXB... | |
| What compilation album from The Kinks do I want? @roxy54: Another thing we agree about is the Kinks’ Village Green album. I would have a hard time choosing it over Face To Face or Something Else, loving all three in their own way. Luckily I don’t have to! I got myself the expanded boxset ver... | |
| Axiom to remember @rvpiano: And you call yourself an audiophile! As Mazzy (Vinyl Community member and YouTube content provider Norman Maslov) puts it, "It’s the music, stupid." | |
| What compilation album from The Kinks do I want? The Kinks run of albums from 1966 through 1972 (Face To Face, Something Else By The Kinks, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur---Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire, Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround P... | |
| A great has died And so it ends. The oldest of the five members of The Band (born in 1937), Garth didn't smoke or drink. No one plays organ as did Garth, a true original. He was also a very interesting pianist, and a decent sax player. I'll be listening to al... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters Steve Earle: "Shania Twain is the highest paid lap dancer in Nashville." A good joke, but I enjoyed (past tense) Shania for what she was: Pop music with a hint of Country mixed in. Plus production by Mutt Lange, also producer of some AC/DC ... | |
| HumminGuru vs.Degritter The Degritter Mark II provides a lot the HumminGuru does not. The most attractive to me is the Degritter's ultrasonic frequency of 120kHz compared to the HumminGurus's 40kHz. 120kHz produces much smaller exploding bubbles compared to those prod... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @onhwy61: Your Sonny Boy Williamson (no offense intended, but it’s not Williams) quote is missing a few words which are important in making his point. His statement was "The English boys want to play the Blues so bad, and that’s just how they d... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato @onhwy61: Ghost World, a favorite movie of mine! Another great scene is the one in which the young girl asks Steve Buscemi’s character if the R. Crumb album is good. "Naw, that one’s not so great." Director Terry Zwigoff and Crumb are of course... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @stuartk: Your comment about mine regarding Americana and the South had me reconsider the matter. Perhaps instead of using the term Southern, "rural" is more of what I'm taking about. I've thought in terms of Southern for a number of reasons, ... | |
| For those who miss Geoff @mitch2: Michael Green’s Room Tune was just a piece of foil-backed fiberglass insulation inside a cloth-covered frame. I imagine at his retail prices he made a fair chunk o’change back in the 90’s. I still have a pair, and some Corner Tunes. Th... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. I agree about Testimony @tomic601. I got to hear Amy live on stage with Levon, at The House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. Levon’s throat was still healing from his cancer treatment, so he didn’t do any singing. That he left to Amy and a short li... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @stuartk: Rodney Crowell first became a National name as the leader of Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band. He played acoustic rhythm guitar and sang harmony with her, and her band included the likes of Tony Brown (later becoming a major Country music pro... | |
| Transmission line speakers! Above I mentioned the ESS Transtatic I, introduced in around 1970. As I said, it consisted of a transmissionline enclosure (20" w, 16" d, 42" h) housing a single KEF B139 driver (also used by David Wilson in his original WAMM), a short transmis... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @stuartk: Alt-Country was to me guys who grew up on Rock, and at some point suddenly discovered Gram Parsons. Then Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and Hank Williams. Thinking you can suddenly play Country music after growing up on Rock is delusional... |