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| Favorite musician(s) One thing about the influences musicians bring to the music they make is that, if a player and the band he is in (assuming he's not a solo artist) becomes very popular, he can actually change the course, the direction, that Popular music takes. Wh... | |
| Bands with great second albums Good ones tseliot, though After Bathing is The Airplane's 3rd album (the 2nd with Grace; they had a different singer and drummer---Skip Spence, later in Moby Grape---on the 1st album, Takes Off). And Veedon Fleece, from 1974, is Van's 8th album! | |
| Sweethearts of the rodeo tour What a show! Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives are a fantastic band, really, really great. Drummer/singer Harry Stinson is a true musical artist, not just a noise maker. To see how good a band they are, watch the clip from their appeara... | |
| Favorite musician(s) Some great musical artists nominated. Marty, we’re musical brothers! George Harrison is SO under-rated. When the style of guitar playing considered hip by musicians became pretty-much purely blues-based (the Yardbirds For Your Love album being a p... | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. Gram Parsons' original recording of his "A Song For You" (on his debut album GP) is real fine, but the cover by The Continental Drifters is much, much better. The Drifters were a 1990's L.A. supergroup with members from The Bangles, The db's, The ... | |
| A song murdered by someone. @2channel8, omg isn’t Nico awful? Just like everything connected with Andy Warhol (yes, including The Velvet Underground ;-), complete and utter bs. Jackson Browne, on the other hand, remains under-appreciated. A great songwriter and a good singer... | |
| Bands with great second albums Walter, I found Gram's Grievous Angel to be quite a bit better than his first, mostly because his tendency to go flat is minimized. There are great songs, including his nice duet with Emmylou on The Every Brothers' "Love Hurts", and a great band. ... | |
| Expanding your hobby by expanding love Fans of Americana already know about Buddy Miller, but for those who don't he's Emmylou Harris' guitarist, bandleader, and harmony singer. He is also a solo artist with a bunch of great albums, and an in-demand producer. Iris Dement is a very spec... | |
| SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS AND MORE SPEAKERS.. BUT NEED BASS.? Not Duke, but some people put a "budget" active electronic crossover into their system, and find it to reduce the system's transparency. Lots of people are even using those cheap digital x/o's. Oy! They contain Opamps, IC's and other sound-comprom... | |
| Aries 1 JWM 10 Tonearm replacement or upgrades? Just my opinion, but feet like VPI's aren't very effective at providing isolation. For the price of them you can get a set of Townshend Audio Seismic Pods, VERY effective isolators. | |
| Expanding your hobby by expanding love Allow me to make a recommendation of how to enhance one’s own musical life: take courses in Music Theory (or at least Music Appreciation) and Electronic Engineering. Both will empower one to better understand how music is made and how it is reprod... | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. slaw, you know it's funny how when "Oops" is taken out of Britney's hands and put in Richard's, you can hear how good a song it actually is. | |
| Someone please "(do) get me started" I don't have any Ray Charles LP's, just a DCC Greatest Hits gold disc. | |
| Favorite musician(s) Crowded House were one of the bright lights of the late 80's and 90's, weren't they? Like Squeeze were in the late 70's and 80's. It's a damn shame drummer Paul Hester couldn't hold on until just a little longer. | |
| Favorite musician(s) Agree 100%, t_e_p. Great choices! Another kindred spirit is Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris' guitarist, bandleader, and harmony singer. He's also a solo artist with a bunch of great albums. |