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| Whats playing on your system today? Up The Line by The Gary Smith Blues Band. Gary switched from drums to blues harp and vocals in 1969, the year I worked with him in a San Jose band. Later that year he joined The Charles Ford Blues Band, who had just moved down from Ukiah, CA. The ... | |
| Underrated album: Sonics AND Music Ry Cooder's soundtrack for the Paris, Texas film. As always from Ry, great music. As for sound, the LP has been on Harry Pearson's Super Disc list since it's inception. | |
| The current best band in the world? @rwwear, cool man. I haven't yet seen/heard Marty & HFS live, but the video clip on You Tube of their appearance on Letterman's old show has really wetted my appetite to do so. | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @djones, there have been a few different NRBQ lineups. The one on the 1st album (on Columbia Records, where they back the great Carl Perkins) reminds me somewhat of the first version of Springsteen's E Street Band---a little weak (though not as ba... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? @sunnyd, thanks for the reminder. I haven't heard the new NRBQ lineup, of which only pianist Terry Adams remains from the original members. Drummer Tom Ardolino passed away a few years ago, bassist Joey Spampinato (a great one, one of my all-time ... | |
| Any Famous people on Audiogon ? Walter Salas. | |
| Trouble Contacting Clear Day Cables Bad things happen to good people, and visa versa. | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? For those who want to understand why some people continue to include The Band in their list of the greatest American Rock 'n' Roll bands (in spite of the fact that they were 4/5ths Canadian. The music they made, however, was purely American, far m... | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. Manfred Mann were a great group, rarely mentioned anymore. Paul Jones was one of the very best singers of the British Invasion (on a par with Van Morrison and Steve Winwood), and the musicians had Jazz influences in their playing styles, unusual a... | |
| Which books OR online courses are best for Audio Industry As an introductory primer on tube amp design, you can watch the You Tube video of Roger Modjeski’s (Music Reference) 90 minute talk at the 2015 Burning Amp Festival. It’s free! Also on You Tube are videos posted by Roger himself, wherein he discus... | |
| Underrated album: Sonics AND Music Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks, a name perhaps not unfamiliar to you due to his collaboration with Brian Wilson on the ill-fated Smile album. Song Cycle was Van’s first album, and it is, I guarantee you, unlike anything you have ever heard. It’s not... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving Shelves made of a material named Torlyte were all the rage in the UK in the 1980's. It's a very stiff, very low mass manufactured product specifically for hi-fi use. Russ Andrews still sells platforms and whole racks made of Torlyte, for not outra... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Atta boy Bill ;-). When NRBQ appeared on David Sanborn's TV show, he introduced them as one of the great R & R bands in the world. Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, and Elvis Costello also held that opinion. Rock 'n' Roll obviously means different thin... | |
| This is juvenile... Josie Cotton, Lene Lovich, Pearl Harbor. All three had a lot of personality and musical & visual style. I was a member of Pearl’s band in 2002-3, and she is a real sweetheart. She was married to Paul Simonon (Clash bassist) for a while, and to... | |
| Reminiscing about Dual and AR turntables A "forgotten" Thorens is the TD-150AB (A for arm, B for base). It’s design is the same as that of the AR (low-mass floating subchassis), but German/Swiss vs. U.S.A. made. The arm on the 150 is FAR better than the one on the AR XA/B. I don’t know h... |