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| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. This afternoon I dropped off a few bag of clothes at my local Goodwill, and decided to see what was in the store's coupla record racks. I had looked a few times before, and saw only the usual Mantovani, Jerry Vale, Jim Nabors, and other assorted s... | |
| All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow I wish the out-takes/unreleased material would be offered separately. I doubt it will be---that material is part of what is selling the 5 and 8-LP boxsets, and the expanded CD boxset. | |
| Pedal steel Sneaky Pete was the pedal steel player in The Flying Burrito Brothers.The guy playing the great ps part in Commander Cody’s "Hot Rod Lincoln" was The West Virginia Creeper, whose drinking got in the way of his career (Cody fired him, replacing him... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? Good songwriting (chord progressions, melodies and harmonies, and lyrics) may be found in the Americana genre. Americana is basically Pop music performed in "roots" style. A number of the songwriters responsible for your favorite songs from the 60... | |
| Finally, a great stylus cleaner-Onzow Zerodust! $50 for a wad of sticky goo "not expensive"? Only in Audiophile land. And "finally"? The Onzow Zerodust has been available for many years.A cheaper alternative is the RTOM Moongel drumhead damping pads, $7.25 for a 6-pk. Put five on your drumset, ... | |
| What Good Songs Can You Mention? Was "good" a Freudian slip? ;-)"God Only Knows" (music by Brian Wilson, lyrics Tony Asher)."With God On Our Side" and "Property Of Jesus" (music and lyrics by Robert Zimmerman). | |
| Daily Record cleaning For removing a static charge from an LP, I for years used the good 'ol Zerostat (I still have my original red one from the 70's, plus a newer one). In the 80's or 90's I got the Nagaoka Kilavolt No. 103, which I found to be both more effective and... | |
| What speaker do you passionately want to demo? Fair points, @mijostyn. I’ve heard the Sanders Model 10 (C version?) twice (at the Anaheim Show), and loved ’em. Having lived with the QUAD ESL for years, I’m quite used to a loudspeaker which beams, not a problem for me. As for subs, agreed. I al... | |
| Daily Record cleaning New LP’s "clean"? Don’t make me laugh. Oops, too late.First of all, PVC pellets---from which the LP "puck" is made, the puck then pressed into LP form by a double-plate mold (very much like a waffle iron)---contain trace elements of a chemical inc... | |
| List your breakthrough products that you’ve discovered on this audiophile Journey. First the ESS TranStatic, then the Infinity Servo-Static, then the Magneplanar Tympani, and finally the QUAD ESL. Yes, all loudspeakers. Close behind the Decca pickups, now in improved construction under the London name. Can't leave out the Sheff... | |
| What speaker do you passionately want to demo? GR Research NX-Otica and/or NX-Treme. And Roger Modjeski's ESL, though it is no longer available. Also Max Townshend's Glastonbury, also no longer in production, I don't believe.I've heard big Soundlabs, but only under show conditions. In a good r... | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? As others have said, what about the 1950’s, 40’s, and 30’s? I would also include the 20’s, but there wasn’t much recording being done then. The seeds of Rock ’n’ Roll (what most of us are talking about. To bring up J.S. Bach is not only silly, but... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. Yeah @articdeth, I've dealt with a few of your type clerks over the years; L.A. is full of them, especially in Tower Records. Wannabe Rock Stars, resentful that they haven't made it "yet". Some of them picked on Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) when he worke... | |
| The birth of a new thread dedicated to sharing our newly-acquired "old" LP's. New additions:Robert Gordon: Are You Gonna Be The One (RCA Records). Though only a mediocre Rockabilly singer, Gordon always has great musicians on his albums---especially guitarists, this one being no exception. His band on this album is the incr... | |
| The Immediate Family Bassist Leland Sklar---one of the most recorded in history---started posting daily YouTube videos he recorded in his Pasadena home after the pandemic closed down the music industry (both recordings and live shows). In each video he discusses a par... |