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| New In 2021 Appearing soon at a record store near you:- Stomping Ground by Dion DiMucci. If you’re not hip to Dion, get with it, man. Dave Edmunds produced his 1989 "comeback" album Yo Frankie, upon which appear k.d. Lang, Lou Reed (a huge fan of Dion), Paul ... | |
| Commander Cody @whart: "Hot Rod Lincoln" made it's first appearance on the 1971 debut Commander Cody album, Kirchen playing guitar. Bill's live version is fantastic, playing solos in a plethora of styles. | |
| Tube Amps, Magnapans and Impedance Roger Sanders makes two versions of his power amp, one for ESL's the other for magnetic-planars such as Maggies. It is very well regarded in the Magnepan community. Check the Planar Speaker Asylum for reviews. | |
| Commander Cody I was lucky enough to see and hear Cody & the boys in the early 70's, The West Virginia Creeper on pedal steel and Telecaster master Bill Kirchen on guitar. Anyone who doesn't enjoy "Seeds And Stems (Again)" is a square, man. How many bands in... | |
| Speakers recommendations for a Sony Japan golden era Hifi system Stax ESL's. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Bob Dylan: "It's not left or right, it's up or down." | |
| Ric Ocasek dead at 75 Keith Richards? Hell, Jerry Lee Lewis is still above ground! The last of the original 1950's Rockers. | |
| Tube Amps, Magnapans and Impedance I don't know whom at Magnepan you talked to, but the 3.7 "6-8 ohms throughout the audible range"? Nope, it is 4 ohms over most that range, dropping to 3 ohms at some frequencies.The original version of the Tympani T-I (which I owned in the 70's) w... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Sitting next to each other on a shelf are my ABBA, AC/DC, Roy Acuff, Arthur Alexander, Mose Allison, Al Anderson, and Alpha band (T Bone Burnett, David Mansfield, and Stephen Soles) LP's. | |
| Blues for Aficionados Love Joe Turner, @rok2id! I was fortunate to see/hear him live in the mid-80's, back by The Blasters. I consider Joe the first Rock 'n' Roll singer, one of the Jump Blues practioners the Southern white Hillbillies like Elvis and Jerry Lee were lis... | |
| Magnepan 1.6QR vs .7 speakers I hate to once again beat this dead horse (why do I bother? ;-), but a used pair of Eminent Technology LFT-8b loudspeakers (like Maggies, a magnetic-planar design, though with a dynamic woofer for 180 Hz down) can be had for around $1500. Consider... | |
| Out of Their Wheelhouse Genius The Beatles Revolver. Actually, their reinvention started with the 45 RPM single that preceded that album: "Paperback Writer"/"Rain". A group changing their sound that much (from the Rubber Soul album) was at that time considered very risky, the p... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Cl;assical and Jazz are viewed as the most "advanced" of all musics. It takes years of study, training, and practice to become proficient enough on an instrument (or voice) to perform it well.I find those two musics very different in major ways. A... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Song title on the debut album (entitled Gorilla) of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band:"Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold".More facts about Jazz: The music requires the most technique of all non-Classical musics to be able to perform well. Lots of musi... | |
| Stereophiles 2021 Recommended Components is now on line. Somebody should snap one up for themselves @clio09. If I didn't already have one (and an RM-9 Mk.2 and RM-10 Mk.2) I would. Not trendy enough for some audiophiles.The late Brooks Berdan recommended Music Reference to his clients (and hosted Roger'... |