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| Takes one to know one Good points, one and all. onhwy61, all The Band albums are quality, but the first two get all the attention because they were so revolutionary and ground-breaking. Plus, they had no filler songs---it was all Grade A material. The last album had on... | |
| Takes one to know one Robbie didn't withhold John Simon's royalty payments, Capitol Records did. It's amazing how often that happens in the music business. When The Dixie Chicks had the number one album in the world, they weren't receiving their checks from Sony. Their... | |
| Takes one to know one @dragunski, I heard Music From Big Pink when it was released, but didn’t "get" it---it was over my head. It troubled me that I didn’t, as the smartest guys I knew loved it. It wasn’t until I saw and heard Dewey Martin (drummer of Buffalo Springfie... | |
| Takes one to know one @jond, isn’t "It Makes No Difference" as beautiful a song as you’ve ever heard?! I love Rick’s voice, it’s so unique. I love how he sang "Long Black Veil---a Lefty Frizzell song (Rick loved Country music)---on Music From Big Pink. As were Levon’s ... | |
| Takes one to know one I’ll be darned, Al! John did a fantastic job producing the first two Band albums. The third (Stage Fright) was done by Todd Rundgren, an odd choice it seemed to me then and now. It was a major disappointment after the incredible first and second, ... | |
| Takes one to know one @onhwy61, I agree about a band sharing songwriting credits, even though it’s a rather Communist idea ;-). The Ramones did it, I’m sure there are others.Levon Helm’s argument was that the instrumental parts he and the others created for The Band’s ... | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? For a while I was searching for a pair of the ET LFT-6, the biggest panel Bruce made. Over 6' tall, each panel contained three of the LFT drivers, two of the ribbon tweeters. The only pair I found for sale were in Asia, and the shipping plus not b... | |
| Takes one to know one For a member of a successful band/group to go on to have a successful solo career is very rare. A group benefits from the members’ combined talents, no one of them having enough talent on his own to make for a solo career. After The Beatles change... | |
| Takes one to know one Thanks everyone for joining me in celebrating this most unusual and amazing group of writers, singers, and players. I added the joke about Robbie against my better judgment; the subject of his actions is a matter of great contention, and if it wer... | |
| Takes one to know one @ghosthouse, isn't "Whispering Pines" about as good as singing gets? Richard's death devastated me. | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? @clio09---Thanks for the tip! I didn't get my 200 until after Brooks croaked. I'll give Sheila a call, maybe they have a set of the RAM 6550's left. Brooks carried a lot of great brands that don't get a lot of attention---Eminent Technology, Music... | |
| Pairing Planar Speakers With A Subwoofer (Eminent Technology) They're not too terribly bad with the grills in place, but without them they're about as ugly as speakers get! I'm thinking about taking off the stock cloth, and putting on some real sheer stuff that's acoustically transparent. | |
| Pairing Planar Speakers With A Subwoofer (Eminent Technology) Yup, they like juice. The Maggies are far hungrier, though (I’ve owned four pair, including the Tympani-IVa’s I now have). The ET"s have a nominal impedance of 8 ohms to the Maggies 4 ohms. The LFT panels on their own are an 11 ohm load, so a mode... | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? Wish I still lived in San Jose! I'd be up at his place in Berkeley/Oakland a lot. Roger is one of the great designers in Hi-Fi, criminally under-appreciated. I own one of his RM-200 MK.2 amps. | |
| Pairing Planar Speakers With A Subwoofer (Eminent Technology) The perceived "speed" of a sub is greatly influenced by the room, where in the room the sub(s) is(are) positioned, not merely the mass of the sub’s driver. "I am afraid the speed of the sub or lack thereof cannot be improved by positioning". No, b... |