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| Bands/artists you never got to see live in their heyday, but would've liked to. Though I did see and hear a lot of those listed here (Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, The Who with Keith Moon, Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck with Ron Wood and Rod Stewart, Johnny Cash, Albert King, Big Joe Turner with The Blasters, Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Mi... | |
| New In 2021 In December, the 50th Anniversary issue of The Band’s 4th album Cahoots. Though imo overpriced at $149.99, the deluxe boxset contains a new Bob Clearwater mix on LP and CD, some unreleased and/or alternate takes, the second half of a live show tap... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. @edesilva: It was actually Garth Hudson---The Band's organist---who was allowed by his parents to join under the cover story that he was providing the other members with musical education for $10/wk each. Garth was playing Classical music in a rel... | |
| What song have you played the most? Can't leave out the sublime song "Love Hurts". Written by Boudleaux Bryant, originally recorded by The fantastic Every Brothers. Many mistakenly believe the song to have been written by Gram Parsons, who recorded it in a duet with Emmylou Harris f... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Me too, @jafant. Having seen John with The Jerry Douglas Band a few weeks back, I've been binging on Hiatt for the last few days. Playing right now is Slow Turning, his follow-up to Bring The Family, imo the former an even better album than the la... | |
| Tune of the Day @dabel: Speaking of Emitt, if you go onto YouTube and do a search for his live performance at the Poptopia Festival in 1997 (I believe it was)---Emitt’s first time on stage in a quarter century--you can hear me leading the band on drums on three o... | |
| Infinity Servo Statics 1A's...where are they??? In 1971 I heard the ESS TranStatic I (which employed a trio or RTR ESL tweeters, along with a KEF B110 5" midrange driver and B139 woofer in a transmission-line enclosure), then the Servo-Static I (same RTR ESL tweeters), and started saving money ... | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? I was lucky to in the late 1960’s live within reception of the San Francisco stations. On AM were KYA and KEWB (it’s sister station in Los Angeles was KFWB). Then in 1967 Tom Donahue---one of the KYA disc jockeys and co-owner of Autumn Records, ho... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Some nice acquisitions from my two little local LP shops last week:From shop no. 1:- The s/t debut album by Manassas, the group formed by Stephen Stills and Chris Hillman (Atlantic Records). 2 LP’s, $8.- Elvis Presley: Elvis’ Gold Records Volume 4... | |
| What song have you played the most? @edcyn: A great venue for her! I saw Van Dyke Parks there in the late-90's. It was at The Troubadour that I twice saw Iris, plus at The Egyptian Theater here in Portland, Oregon. All times alone, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar and baby gr... | |
| Tune of the Day "It Makes No Difference", written by Robbie Robertson, recorded by The Band. Robertson's last great song, sung by bassist Rick Danko. Wonderful 3-part vocal harmonies by Rick, Levon Helm, and Richard Manuel, tasty "chimey" guitar solo by Robertson... | |
| What song have you played the most? - "God Only Knows", written by Brain Wilson (music) and Tony Asher (lyrics), recorded by The Beach Boys (and found on their Pet Sounds album). Paul McCartney stated he considers it the greatest song ever written. It is included in solo piano form ... | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system - Gordon Lightfoot: "Me And Bobby McGee". This recording stopped Bill Johnson in his tracks when Walter Davies (Last Record Preservative products) played it for him and I. Bottleneck guitar by Ry Cooder.- David Lindley: "Mercury Blues".- Stevie Wo... | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time Lots and lots of great nominees already mentioned, most of my favorites. To which I will add Holland/Dozier/Holland and Boudleaux & Felice Bryant. | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? @edcyn: Do you like the scent of patchouli oil too? ;-) Far out, man. Gawd did I despise the hippie era, both musically and culturally. And too many guys with "attempted" mustaches (thank you Loudon Wainwright !!! ;-) . Now, young girls wearing th... |