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| 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. | |
| For those of us over 60.. slaw, I became deeply into Lucinda after discovering her in the mid-80’s (and meeting her at a Long Ryders’ show in Hollywood. Her at-the-time husband was their drummer.). I lost interest in her after her Car Wheels album, her follow-up albums not... | |
| Tune of the Day "Dimming Of The Day", performed live by Bonnie Raitt and the song’s writer Richard Thompson. Viewable/hearable on You Tube. | |
| For those of us over 60.. Being as timeless as they are, The Band have been on my turntable and in my CD players since 1969 (I didn’t "get" them until a year after Music From Big Pink came out, but for years have listened to that album every single day. Seriously.).And you... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? @fleschler, Roger Modjeski also get’s 100 watts out of a pair of KT88’s in his Music Reference RM-200 Mk.2, with well less than 1% distortion (look at the listening impressions and bench test results in it’s review in Stereophile a few years back)... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A Phono Preamp....anyone familiar? Plus, the Herron is really well built, unlike the JC3. | |
| Pneupod NP-1 Pneumatic Isolation Feet - Feedback please I still have a bunch of the Townshend Seismic Sinks, both the original version made in the UK with adjustable feet, and the U.S.-made non-adjustable version. I liked them better than the Bright Star (which I also used to have), they being made of ... | |
| Someone please "(do) get me started" @slaw, Analog Productions has a bunch of great Ray Charles titles. Look at them on the Elusive Disc website. | |
| SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS AND MORE SPEAKERS.. BUT NEED BASS.? Regarding Duke's finding of reduced transparency as result of high-pass filtering of main speakers, if a 1st-order filter is sufficient, a simple passive one can be installed on the input jacks of the amp powering the speakers, just a single cap u... | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. Ha! slaw’s Richard Thompson cover of "Oops!...I Did It Again" is genius! Fun topic. And djones51’s The Band’s "I Shall Be Released" is one I wish I had made (maybe I did in the similar thread?). Richard Manuel’s falsetto vocal is really special. F... | |
| A song murdered by someone. Aw geez, how could I have forgotten (I should be so lucky) The Who’s version of "Shakin’ All Over"? The Guess Who improved on the Johnny Kidd & The Pirates original, The Who quite the opposite. Daltry’s vocals set a new standard for hoariness.... | |
| Speed kills.... Yes Erik, absolutely. ESL’s are almost often implemented as dipoles (sound launched forward and rearward), but not always as line sources. None of the Quads are line sources, but all are dipoles (though the rear of the 57 comes covered in felt---t... | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. The Beatles: "Rock & Roll Music" (Chuck Berry original of course).Dave Edmunds: "I Hear You Knocking" (Smiley Lewis original); "Born To Be With You" (The Chordettes original); "Singing The Blues" (Marty Robbins original); "Almost Saturday Nigh... | |
| Bands with great second albums @roxy54---Good call on the 2nd (s/t) Seatrain album. On it they do my favorite version of Lowell George’s "Willin’".Randy Newman’s 12 Songs.Paul Simon’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.Lyle Lovett’s Pontiac.Emmylou Harris’ Elite Hotel.Ry Cooder’s Into Th... |