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| Rock musicians with musical education. Schooling can help one develop one’s inate talent, and understanding theory---however learned---can help make a better musician. But remember, Danny Gatton was completely self-taught, as is Ry Cooder. Of course there aren’t many Gattons and Cooder... | |
| AR XB headshell/tonearm I guess it's like the Dynaco Stereo 70. You used to be able to pick those up for a mere pittance. For what you pay for one now you can get a Music Reference RM-10, a far, far better amplifier. | |
| Live music you have attended that left impact....perhaps better than you expected. - Leonard Cohen at The Universal Amphitheater in the early-2000’s. Very dramatic, sophisticated, and musical. - In the early-80’s I went to see The Plimsouls at a little "club" on Ventura Blvd. in Studio City named The Garage (it was an actual ga... | |
| AR XB headshell/tonearm AR Turntables are collectible? There are many thousands of them out there (I saw them listed for $50-$100 in local papers for years). I modified my AR XA by cutting out the well for the arm (it’s a piece of junk) and replacing it with a Formula 4 ... | |
| Anyone try using a 5751 in place of a 12AT7? Frank Van Alstine uses 5751's in place of 12AX7's in his re-engineering of the Dynaco PAS pre-amp. Lower gain, lower noise.. | |
| The Good Stuff Iris Dement's My Life album, which includes her devastating song "No Time To Cry" (covered by a big admirers of hers---Merle Haggard). Anything by J.S. Bach. To have your DNA permanently altered, listen to a good recording of his Concerto For 4 H... | |
| What song have you played the most? Great nominee @cmjones! Another one by John is "Lipstick Sunset", with a glorious guitar solo by Ry Cooder. When I saw the two perform the song live (as members of Little Village), time stood still. I had an out-of-body experience, like but not as... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. There is always the school of hard knocks. | |
| 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 ... |