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| Pop album that has stood the test of time I don’t know Steve, but Andrew Gold’s s/t debut album and it’s follow-up What’s Wrong With This Picture? certainly deserve inclusion. Both contain excellent Power Pop. Another overlooked guy is Phil Seymour, who did two solo albums after leavi... | |
| Having a Flashback Friday - Airplane Induced The last time I tripped (spring of 1968), I was achieving lift off just as the first track on Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing At Baxter's album was beginning. I can't hear that album without getting a mild flashback. | |
| Black Friday Record Store Day 2024. Bob Bradley is one of my favorite Vinyl Community content providers, his YouTube videos being well worth the time it takes to watch them. Though our musical tastes overlap only marginally, I really like Bob's personality, and his perspective on... | |
| Pop album that has stood the test of time "Pop" used to mean anything non-Classical, but these days I think of it in terms of short(er) songs with good melodies, hooky sing-along choruses, and the classic verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/verse/chorus structure. Pop was "the" style of m... | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? For a coupla hundred bucks you can buy a Vevor 6L USC machine with a simple LP lowering arm on Amazon. It's a good way to try out ultra-sonic cleaning on the cheap. The US frequency is 40kHz, and features no water filtering or drying. For a cou... | |
| ESS speakers synergise with valves? The first ARC power amp I saw in a hi-fi shop (the Dual 50) was driving a pair of ESS Transtatics. It was 1971, before ESS had developed the Heil models. The Transtatic used RTR electrostatic tweeters, which were transparent enough to expose th... | |
| Acoustic Panel Help @audiodidact: I made the mistake of not looking at your Audiogon virtual system before suggesting the Vicoustic Multifusers. 3’ has long been considered the common wisdom for the minimum distance between planar loudspeakers and the wall behind... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I picked up the two Jellyfish albums on LP in the 90’s, and only recently learned those LP’s are somewhat scarce (Tower Records had them back then). I also twice saw them live, and sympathize with those who didn’t. Absolutely a-ma-zing! | |
| New In 2024 I’m jumping the gun into 2025. On January 25th, Lost Highway Records (one of my favorite labels) is releasing Look Up by Ringo Starr (on LP and CD). Produced by T Bone Burnett, Ringo receives accompaniment from the likes of Alison Krauss, B... | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? The Audio Desk USC has a terrible reputation and track record. Prior to the introduction of the Degritter, the real competition to the Audio Desk was the Klaudio, which cleans better and doesn’t break. Mike at The In Groove Record Store (in Ph... | |
| Acoustic Panel Help Vicoustic Multifuser DC2 or DC3. Comes in a box of six, each diffuser measuring just under 24" square. A stack of three behind each Maggie (or any other dipole planar) works great at diffusing the rear wave of each panel. Place where the rear w... | |
| Maplenoll models, variants and customization @winerocks: To remove the adhesive on the platter, give Bestine Solvent And Thinner a try. It's designed specifically to dissolve rubber cement, and is sold at art supply houses (and Amazon of course). I regularly use it to remove price sticker... | |
| If you haven't yet discovered Rosie Flores..... By the way @dekay (a song could be written with that rhyming line ), Rosie’s s/t album was produced by Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam’s producer back then), with James Intveld (a Neo-Rockabilly favorite, and her boyfriend at the time) playing bas... | |
| If you haven't yet discovered Rosie Flores..... @wolf_garcia: One of my all-time favorite live shows was Rodney Crowell at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. in 2001. It was just Rodney on acoustic guitar and vocals, Steuart Smith on electric guitar, and Jerry Scheff on electric bass. I’d see... | |
| If you haven't yet discovered Rosie Flores..... @dekay: Look for her 1987 s/t debut album on Reprise. |