bdp24
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| Neutral, transparent, warm I don’t know if it’s still available, but at one time Stereophile offered a little pamphlet containing all the terms used (some coined) by the father of subjective reviewing, J. Gordon Holt. Neutral and warm refer to frequency balance, transparen... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @stuartk: Yep, love Gurf Morlix. I saw Lucinda and her original L.A. band (including not just Gurf, but also drummer Donald Lindley and bassist John Ciambotti, a great trio) play around town after her Rough Trade album came out in 1988, once at a ... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @tomcy6: Rodney’s The Houston Kid is as good an album as I have ever heard, in my Top 10 of all time. He wrote an accompanying book, Chinaberry Sidewalks, which is well worth reading. He served as Emmylou’s band leader/harmony singer for a while, ... | |
| New cartridge for Eminent Technology ET2 Keep the trough, and get a London (Decca) pickup. ;-) | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? When I bought an ARC SP-3, D51, and D75 in 1973, they were priced at $595, $695, and $995. Not that much more than the price of mass-market mid-fi components. Sure, the price of ARC products has over the ensuing years risen far more than has infla... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @stuartk: For me, the Telecaster starts with James Burton. He made a huge impression on the very young me, smiling as he stood behind Ricky Nelson on The Ozzie & Harriet TV show. His solo on Ricky's "Young World" is a favorite of mine, and Geo... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @stuatk: The Hellecasters! I have their Escape From Hollywood album (the CD booklet includes this line: "Dedicated to the memory of Danny Gatton 1945-1994"), and saw them live in the 90's. Three masters of the Telecaster, on stage together. Jorgen... | |
| 180g … It’s All Hype ! Too much generalizing and over-simplifying for me, but one sentence really stands out: "with the same quality control they had back in the day." If you think record labels manufactured their 1960’s/70/s/80’s LPs with the care Chad Kassem puts in... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @tablejockey: You are so right about Redd Volkaert (for those who don't know, Redd took Roy Nichols' place in Merle Haggard's band after Roy's passing, and won a Grammy in the 2000's for best instrumental performance). A bassist partner of mine an... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. I became aware of the name Eric Clapton when in 1966 I saw and heard the new Elektra Records sampler album entitled What’s Shakin’ (billed as Eric Clapton And The Powerhouse), which also contained the guitar playing of Mike Bloomfield (as a member... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @crustycoot: Actually, the guitar Ry uses primarily for his slide playing is a heavily-mofified Strat, not Tele. He refers to it as the Coodercaster ;-) . At the suggestion of David Lindley he replaced one of the stock pickups with a pickup out of... | |
| Best double studio vinyl? An album I just found in Mint condition for $6.99: - Any Day Now by Joan Baez. Two LP's of Dylan songs, wonderful versions by Joannie, a new favorite of mine. Musical accompaniment by the best musicians in Nashville at the time of the recordings:... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @mammothguy54: I also recorded with Emitt, in his studio in Hawthorne. He still has the Gibson ES335 pictured on the back cover of the album and the pump organ he’s sitting at on the inside of the gatefold! He had me record the song he was produc... | |
| God doesn't need to know what time it is. @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 A... | |
| American Made Audio Products I have owned three pair of Magneplanars (including one pair currently), and the Eminent Technology LFT-4 and LFT-8b. None of them are perfect, Neither are my QUAD ESL's, or the Infinity RS-Ib I formerly owned. Anyone who claims ANY loudspeaker to... |