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| 50th Woodstock Anniversay Concert ; Michael Lang Damn @rpeluso, I’m green with envy! I had made plans to make the pilgrimage to Levon’s Barn with an old friend of mine (I’ve made music with him off and on since 1968. He saw Dylan & The Hawks live in ’65!), but he had a terrible accident and ... | |
| Unexpected Tom Petty "stamper" discovery For Petty lovers who don't know about the original version of The Dwight Twilley Band, you will love their debut album Sincerely. In promotional videos made for the album, Tom is playing bass with Dwight, drummer/singer Phil Seymour, and guitarist... | |
| Heaviest Headshell? Lead weights, like the ones used to balance wheels. | |
| How many of you had been to all 50 states of United States. Way back in '71 my band got hired to play in the Officers Club on the Navy base on Kodiak Island (at the southern tip of Alaska). We drove from San Jose to Seattle, and were flown from there to Kodiak in a Navy prop jet. Worst flight of my life! L... | |
| 50th Woodstock Anniversay Concert ; Michael Lang @goofyfoot, I believe you are thinking of Big Pink, the house in Saugerties, NY (close to Woodstock) that three members of The Band rented and lived in throughout 1967 and into ’68. They rehearsed in the basement of that house, and made the legend... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers I find the drumming of Steve Gadd closer to that of Buddy Rich than Carl Palmer's. For pure technical ability, nobody alive is better than Vinnie Colaiuta (Jeff Beck). For a close look at Fito DeLa Parra, watch him in the Woodstock movie. He, like... | |
| 50th Woodstock Anniversay Concert ; Michael Lang While in Woodstock, attend a show at Levon Helm's Barn! | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? @tostadosunidos, I always viewed those lyrics as The Chamber Brothers (siblings, not bruthas ;-) perhaps-cynical attempt to cash in on the counter-culture consumers, who making artists and entertainers rich. In an interview, Bill Graham said if yo... | |
| Group delay in subwoofers Rythmik Audio subs come with a plate amp that includes a continuously-variable phase control. The control allows time-aligning woofers to speakers without physically moving either. The Rythmik PEQ model plate amps also provide both low level conne... | |
| Jumperless jumpers The Eminent Technology LFT-8b comes with jumpers for the two pair of binding posts, the jumpers simple lengths of stranded-copper with stripped ends. | |
| Is unamplified music the gold standard? The term High Fidelity was coined with the word "fidelity" meaning the sound of reproduced music was judged in relation to the sound of, at the time of the phrase’s coining, the live-performances that had been recorded. That was the standard that ... | |
| Linn LP12/Lingo start-up/speed problems I'd be very surprised if the problem is mechanical, rather than electronic. I had a Thorens TD-125 Mk.2 whose electronics created the same "motorboating". | |
| Unexpected Tom Petty "stamper" discovery My story is only somewhat related (being about not the sound quality of a certain pressing, but rather its musical content), but anyone who likes Tom Petty is likely to also like T Bone Burnett. I bought T Bone’s 1980 Truth Decay album on Takoma R... | |
| Cartridge Mounting Hardware I don't know if it's still in production (it's not on their website), but Rega was at one time making a cartridge bolt torque wrench. | |
| Favorite band or artist of all time? Dang, your right onhwy61, I forgot about The Chambers Brothers. I saw them at The Fillmore, in '68 I guess. So the last Band Of Gypsys was Hendrix, Billy Cox on Bass, and Mitch? When I saw the original Experience lineup the second time (at Winterl... |