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| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update My interest in the Terminator was piqued by the fact that designer/builder Vic showed on his website a London Reference cartridge mounted on the arm. Now THERE'S a fearless man, an outside-the-box thinker! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601, Levon Helm’s autobiography (co-written with an actual writer. The syntax of the narration does not sound like Levon speaking.) has long been my favorite telling of The Band story. But that telling is from his perspective alone; I believ... | |
| Saxaphone vs. Trumpet...Which do you prefer? the doors did not have a bass player in live performance (Manzarek played the bass parts on, not his cheesy Farfisa organ, but on the almost-as-cheesy Fender Keyboard Bass which sat atop his organ. Live, it sounded somewhat like a child’s toy vers... | |
| Do you guys like Adele's music? I divide musical performers into two groups: those I can live without, and those I can't. From the little I've heard from Adele (another 1-name entertainer?), she is in the former category. I hear much worse these days (not just these days. I alwa... | |
| Saxaphone vs. Trumpet...Which do you prefer? @roxy54, Bruce Botnick was the recording engineer on the doors (I’m spelling it as they did---with a lower case d, as homage to e e Cummings, I believe. Yes, Morrison was a tad pretentious ;-) albums. They had a number of different bass players on... | |
| Do you guys like Adele's music? When you say Adele's music, do you mean her voice, her songs, or the total package? My sister introduced me to her (I'm into primarily Americana/Roots/Rural music, ignoring the mainstream/radio stuff), and my immediate reaction was, well at least ... | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Blues Traveler has the worst harp player I’ve ever heard. Hearing him blow is like watching the majority of white men dance: unintentionally funny, or brutal torture. | |
| I like my music systems like I like my baths ... I like my women like my showers.....hot. | |
| Saxaphone vs. Trumpet...Which do you prefer? The most fun band I was ever in had two sax players---a tenor and a baritone. Great combination sound, heard on a lot of 50's Rock 'n' Roll records (Little Richard a personal favorite). The band, a Jump Blues/Swing combo, added a trumpet, and none... | |
| Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore? While the First Watt B4 I mentioned on Page 1 doesn't have all the controls and versatility of the Pass x/o, it has a lot more than the Bryston and Marchand. 1st/2nd/3rd/4th-order filters in 25Hz increments from 25Hz to 3200Hz. All discrete---no o... | |
| Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile" Anyone who has spent more on his system than on his (or her. Yeah, right ;-) music library. I would say collection, but that term now seems to me to have negative connotations. Like buying an LP just to own it, rather than to listen to. | |
| Any Tom Waits Fans? I was in a band with a guitarist (Paul Skelton. He plays on albums by Austinites Wayne Hancock, Libby Bosworth, and Cornell Hurd) who loved Tom's early, "beatnik"-era albums, but I found them a little too self-consciously hipster for me. His Sword... | |
| Tune of the Day "Desperados" is a great song, @slaw, written by Guy Clark. One band I was in performed it regularly.My song of the day is "Go West", a really "fun" song on Geraint Watkins 2004 album on Yep Rock, Dial W For Watkins. Bob Dylan: "Geraint Watkins is ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? My pleasure fellas! I offer the knowledge I possess in the name of furthering everyone's appreciation of The Band. @slaw, I forgot to offer some info concerning one point you brought up. The "house" you refer to is, I believe, the one in which The... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, the quote you cite was from master guitarist Ry Cooder, on his way home with Jack Nitzsche (Phil Spector’s arranger and orchestrator, later in Crazy Horse for a couple of albums, including Neil Young’s Harvest, which Jack produced) and reco... |