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| Vinyl Warm Up Time Get yourself a London pickup. No suspension. | |
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile After hearing ESL’s in 1970 and ’71, the next step was hearing Magneplanar Tympani T-I’s and the Decca Blue phono pickup in 1973. The system was brought to Livermore California by Bill Johnson, including his Audio Research SP-3, and Dual 51 and... | |
| Collectibles signed by musicians. What do you have? - The 7" 45 RPM single of "Caroline No". Though the song was included on The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, Capitol Records released the song as a single credited to Brian Wilson. I took the single with me to the album release event for Brian’s ... | |
| Vinyl that is impossible to find @jnovak: Fortunately Mason’s LP’s are pretty easy to find. I’ve picked up four of his locally in the past coupla years, each priced $5. | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? The Beach Boys in the Summer of 1964 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium, with Brian playing bass and singing falsetto. The opening act was The Tikis, a Surf band from Santa Cruz. A coupla years later they changed their name to Harpers Bizarre. F... | |
| Old SS amps Here are some solid state amps with cult followings: - Bedini 25/25 - BEL 1001 Mk.IV - Electron Kinetics Eagle 2 | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... Yeah, old K's cost serious money. The good thing about buying one unheard is that you can always sell it for what you paid. We should make a list of good sounding recorded drums and cymbals. I'm gonna be thinking about that. | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... @atlantadrumguy: The new owner of the building didn’t list any cymbals, and didn’t mention any when I picked up the drums. Gordon sure had some good sounding ones; I think I read he played A. Zildjians. Have you had any Turkish Zildjians K’s?... | |
| Vinyl that is impossible to find Hey, thanks Steve. I'd prefer an original (in black vinyl I presume), but a reissue is not out of the question. | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... Here’s what a 24" (by 14" deep) kick with 13 x 9 and 16 x 16 toms looks like. The (southpaw) drummer is playing a set of early-70’s Slingerland drums (love the dual set of bass drums spurs, standard on 24" Slingerlands), with a 14 x 6-1/2" chr... | |
| Vinyl that is impossible to find Some titles are available on LP, but at a price I don’t care to pay. $200 for Levon Helm’s Electric Dirt, for instance. I saw a copy in 2010, but wasn’t buying LP’s at that time. Time machine, please. Others are much harder to find. Current... | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... An afterthought: What I especially love in the playing of Jim Gordon and Johnny Barbata is---in addition to being very tasteful and musical, their drum parts being played in service to the song---the element of intelligence. Smart drumming? Ye... | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... @atlantadrumguy: The reason 24" Los Angeles-era Camco’s are more common than Oaklawn (Illinois) and Canute (Kansas)-era 24’s is that LA-era drumsets were made in the 1970’s, when 24’s were coming into favour by Rock drummers like Mitch Mitchell... | |
| Question about Gray Triangular Acoustic Room Pillows The Corner Tunes and Echo Tunes have a piece of foil-backed fiberglass insulation inside. Use with the foil side facing out if you want reflection, the fiberglass side out if you want absorption. | |
| Jim Gordon has Passed On... @roxy54: If the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall Of Fame ever does a Derek & The Dominos display, I’d loan them the set. I didn’t manage to see Jim play live, but his playing in the videos I’ve seen is just phenomenal. When I recorded with Emitt Rhodes i... |