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| What's your favorite lyric from a song? ghosthouse, I’ve long been intrigued by the subject of the genesis of songs, not possessing that gift and talent myself. I’m sure Iris has heard "Black Diamond Bay", but she didn’t write "No Time To Cry" until almost twenty years after that song c... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? ghosthouse, one of my most fun gigs was backing Don (Sugarcane Harris) & Dewey on a set at The Foothill Club in L.A. (a place that booked pure American Rock ’n’ Roll and Rockabilly artists) in the late-90’s. Don & Dewey had been on Special... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? The third verse of Iris Dement’s "No Time To Cry", one of my absolute favorite songs:"I sit down on the sofa and I watch the evening newsThere’s a half a dozen tragedies from which to pick and chooseThe baby that was missing was found in a ditch t... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Booker T & The MG's, the only band to work with both Otis Redding and Bob Dylan. | |
| Many seem to be talking about their last system . Both! Time to focus on the music more than the sound. The limiting factor is the source material, and it is what it is. There comes a point where good enough is good enough. | |
| For those of us over 60.. Miles vs. Mitchell is like Frazier vs. Ali, or a machete vs. a scalpel. | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? wolf, I saw Dewey and three other guys playing billed as The New Buffalo in the middle of '69, my teen combo opening for them at a local San Jose High School. Randy Fuller, Bobby's brother, was playing bass and singing harmony. The stipulation was... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I consider John Simon almost a sixth member of The Band on their first two albums. I hadn't known he produced the first BS&T album, which is completely different from the ones that followed. I've never read why Al Kooper left his own creation ... | |
| Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On" MFSL UDOS 45rpm Ha! Actually Steve, I intended my comments about the production and engineering to address that issue. But now that you mention it, Tom Dowd’s engineering (including his work with The Stones and others) is good in terms of the field he worked in--... | |
| Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On" MFSL UDOS 45rpm I need two characteristics of a recording be present for me to consider spending big bucks on a new reissue---music that I don’t just like, but love, and the original recorded sound quality be sufficiently high to justify a superior remastering an... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? test | |
| For those of us over 60.. onhwy61, I used the term "monster" literally, not in terms of him being a great drummer necessarily. For whatever reason, his drums sound kind of thin and weak on the Electric Flag album. Live, he sounded as "punchy" as Keith Moon, pounding his dr... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Real good point lewm, perhaps the reason linear-tracking arms are known for their great bass reproduction. | |
| best preamps folkfreak graciously invited me over to his place to hear his system, which includes a Ref 40. He runs it with the top cover off, so I was able to see it’s guts. That pre is a thing of beauty, a real work of art. But for me to spend 25 g’s on a pr... | |
| Which band IS really America's Greatest (rock & roll band)? Damn wolf, I’m green with envy. Though going to shows in San Francisco frequently, I somehow managed to never see the Grape live. Same with Springfield. But the one band (heh) I most regret not seeing live are The Hawks, whom you also saw. Punk ;-) . |