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| A great singer you may have never heard, or even heard of. Willy and Jack Nitzsche in a hotel room. This is what it’s like when two very talented musicians are together in a room. Both Willie and Jack have left us. https://youtu.be/pfDKbQnqcA0?si=LoxlTovgf0GBopev | |
| A great singer you may have never heard, or even heard of. I just clicked on YouTube, and this short (2:21) clip was first in the que. I especially like Hal Willner’s statement about Willie: "This is as good as music gets." And Peter Wolf’s: "There’s the mystery about Willie. When you get it, it’s atom... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? @drinaldo: I have a friend who saw the last show Jeff Beck played with The Yardbirds. It was Jeff and Jimmy Page on guitars, and Chris Dreja on bass. He saw them again the following night, and Jeff was gone. I never managed to see the band, dam... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? @noromance: Lasagna, my all-time favorite meal, bar none. I do some cooking, but lasagna from scratch is above my abilities. The frozen Michael Angelo's I get at my supermarket is pretty darn good. | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? A lot of the "Vinyl Community" posters on YouTube (they refer to themselves as members of the VC, the younger members undoubtedly unaware that those initials were also used when referring to the Viet Cong) mention how many LP’s they own. I’ve n... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? @whart: Hi Bill, I’m very pleased you decided to join in the conversation, and love your post. Another lover of the Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus album! If I ever make another trip to Austin, I expect to be welcomed for a visit . The last ti... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? A further though: In their reviews of hi-fi products, Stereophile writers include information about the records (both LP and CD) they employ as source material in helping them appraise the sound quality of the components they are reviewing. Ar... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? @snilf: When one clicks on ’Start A New Discussion’ in the Audiogon Forum, one of the topic choices offered is ’Music’. Those interested in discussions of hi-fi gear exclusively are free to ignore threads which include the discussion of music. ... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? @ozzy: Now there's a band I would love to see live! I have six of their albums on CD, and two on LP. | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? In the last TV appearance of political writer Cristopher Hitchens (who was known to be undergoing treatment for cancer) that I saw, he was asked by the interviewer how he was. He replied "Well, I'm dying. But so are you." | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? @retiredaudioguy: For me hearing a good system raised my expectations. Listening to music through a poor (or even mediocre) system was no longer good enough---I knew I wasn’t hearing it as well as possible, and I was left wanting. In spite of t... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? Some of the most rabid audiophiles also own very large record collections. Michael Fremer has a quite nice system and a massive music library. But my gawd, what a mess of a listening room! @jwei: When I heard a really good system for the first... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? A clarification of my viewpoint on the topic: I made my comment in the ’How much is too much to spend on a system’ thread was made NOT because I consider "The hi-fi shouldn’t be worth more than one’s music library" to be "right" or "correct... | |
| Any piece of equipment you currently dream of ? A listening room big enough for my pair of Magneplanar Tympani T-IVa loudspeakers. At a little over 4' wide apiece, and with 8' between them and at least 2' between each and their sidewalls, that's a room width of no less than 20'. For depth it... | |
| Walk On By - The Story Of Popular Song (BBC Documentary 17/23) That’s interesting @wharfy. What automatically came up on my TV after the above segment (17 of 23) was the next segment (18), which covers the formation of Crosby, Stills, & Nash, and The Dead’s forays into songwriting and harmony singing (... |