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| 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! | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers For those interested in discovering the unique, unusual, and even odd (and I mean that as a compliment) bass playing of the aforementioned Rick Danko of The Band, give a listen to "Chest Fever" and "We Can Talk" on the Music From Big Pink album, a... | |
| Tune of the Day Sheryl Crow: "Shotgun" (NOT the Jr. Walker & The Allstars song, also a great one! Even better is their "Roadrunner"). | |
| First investment into a turntable Great suggestion tomcarr, though I doubt one can be had for the op’s $200-$300 target price. I too had one, fitted with a Rega RB300. Replaced that with a VPI HW-19, a very different table. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (produced by Dave Edmunds); Dave Edmunds: Get It; Marshall Crenshaw: #447; The Everly Brothers: 24 Original Classics; Nick Lowe: The Convincer; v/a: True Faith (Mojo Magazine bonus CD included with the Decem... | |
| Who do you like for equipment mods? Rick Schultz at EVS (Electronic Visionary Systems) is a controversial, adventurous modifier. Frank Van Alstine is a more traditional engineer, with a solid ee background and education. I don't know if he is still offering his Dynaco mods, but they... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers johnto---actually, I did mention Jim Gordon, in a post a couple of days ago (it reads "Jim’s Gordon and Keltner"---my way of saying Jim Gordon and Jim Keltner). I love his playing, and his cymbals were as good sounding as I’ve ever heard, as were ... | |
| The Jadis JA200Mk2 review---or slam! I likewise don't cotton to Art Dudley’s use of Altec Lansing Valencia speakers to audition other components. He is, I'm sure, aware that to do so would be found questionable by some, but is, as always, secure in his decision to do so regardless. | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Ya beat me to it, lowrider57! About Ringo being a musical drummer, that is. There’s a saying in the Christian faith, that you can’t serve two masters. A drummer can approach a song and choose to play it in one of two ways: either in a way to make ... |