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| Greatest Rock Drummers Excellent nomination of Jim Karstein, shadorne. I'm impressed! Others of his ilk (supremely musical, therefore unknown to most) include Jim Christie (Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam), David Kemper (T Bone Burnett), Don Heffington (Emmylou Harris, ... | |
| Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD I hear ya Steve. It happens to every generation, but I have to say the boomer generation (to which I belong, as did Petty) for some reason thought it was the exception to the rule---a Peter Pan fantasy.While living in L.A., I met and became acquai... | |
| Just an outlet for music lyrics that have meaning to you at the moment... In light of Tom Petty’s death,"No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive". From the pen of hillbilly genius Hank Williams. | |
| After a (weeks) worth of listening... slaw & reubent, I feel safe in guessing you both know that Little Village were first together on John Hiatt's Bring The Family album. It's now available on a Mobile Fidelity LP, and is actually better music imo than their s/t album (Ry Cooder ... | |
| Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening Good post, whart. It DOES feel like a race to me, hearing everything I want before the clock runs out. Not to the point of being distracted from enjoying and/or appreciating as I listen, but to the point of not squandering my precious time on musi... | |
| Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD Exactly my thoughts, jmc. As a 14-15 year old, I watched in growing horror as my Mother was ravaged by brain cancer. I've lived my life with the knowledge of my (and everyone else's) imminent demise very much in mind, and now that I'm approaching ... | |
| Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD At Petty’s age (same as mine), I assumed he was, like so many of us (though not me), just a pothead. But he had hurt his hip either just before or just as the tour was starting, and didn’t want to cancel. It was viewed as his Farewell Tour, and he... | |
| Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD Right pops, as it is no doubt a large source of income for them. | |
| Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening The best thing I’ve read lately (along with Bob Dylan In America, by Sean Wilentz). In preparing for the final move of my life, I two years ago realized there were in all likelihood not enough hours left in my life to listen to every LP, CD, and t... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers The question remains: what makes a drummer a "Rock" one? Coliauta and Weckl are incredible drummers (maybe the two best, in terms of pure technical ability), but I consider them Jazz musicians, not Rock. | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Neil Peart must be the John Bonham of his generation, as he is mentioned so many times in polls, particularly by non-musicians. No offense intended! Peart has his strengths, but he wasn't aware of his glaring weakness when he organized the recordi... | |
| Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD Update: It was opioids. Petty was suffering with a few physical problems---his knees were giving out, and he had just been told he had fractured his hip. He was self medicating with Fentanyl and the other common opes to relieve the physical pain, ... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Yep tostadosunidos, Zak Starkey is doing a great job in The Who. I saw them with Keith Moon live twice, and he was a possessed madman. But Zak is actually a more powerful, muscular, player. He doesn't play with the humour (an overlooked quality in... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Thanks gpgr4blu. Being a drummer, I would put it a little differently! A drummer SHOULD be, above all else, a musician---one who plays music. So there should not be a distinction between drummers and other musicians. Unfortunately, many drummers c... | |
| First investment into a turntable Tom, that HW-19 (original "Mk.1") was sold when I got a Townshend Audio Elite Rock table, which I still have. But I recently picked up another, later version 19, as well as an Aries. Now I have a table for each of my arms! |