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| Greatest Rock Drummers Ha, I wondered if that would rankle anyone! Yes, I am well aware that opinion flies in the face of the commonly accepted wisdom, with which I obviously disagree. I could explain, but one either gets it or one doesn’t ;-). | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers You are of course right, Steve. Ringo was the best drummer for The Beatles, Keith Moon the best for The Who (though Zak Starkey, Ringo’s kid, is doing a fantastic job in The Who now. I saw Keith with The Who live twice, and he was a possessed madm... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers After the death of Buddy Rich, Neil Peart organized the recording of a tribute album to Buddy. Unfortunately for him, Neil exposed to the drumming world his total inability to play a shuffle, a complete lack of sense of swing. His playing on that ... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Another fact: Though Earl Palmer was a New Orleans Jazz drummer, and at the end of his life was playing in a Jazz trio at Chadneys Steak House in Burbank, CA (where I and the bass player of Los Straitjackets---himself a drummer and huge Earl Palme... | |
| Question for cable/wire naysayers..... "recording engineers at the best studios use lamp cord". They used to. Once Doug Sax heard what good cabling did for his monitor system, he rewired his entire studio. | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Ginger has played some Rock music, and played in some Rock bands, but his basic approach to playing drums is that of a Jazz drummer. That’s one element of my "problem" with Cream, and Ginger’s playing in that band; their music was basically blues,... | |
| PS Audio 200C X vs. 200Delta? I agree, Tim. A 200C can be had for $400-$500! The thing weighs a ton, with a massive transformer and power supply. Built like a battleship, as they say. I use it on my Magneplanar Tympani and Eminent Technology LFT-4 bass panels. 200w/ch at 8 ohm... | |
| BEST budget system. What is yours? Monitor Audio i-deck. Has an ipod interface built in, plus a line level input you can plug a CD player, phono stage, tuner, or cassette/reel-to-reel deck into. | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers No, Earl Palmer is. By the way, Ginger Baker is not a Rock drummer, but a Jazz one. | |
| PS Audio 200C X vs. 200Delta? Thanks Tim. When I posed the question, the amp had been packed away for a few years, and my memory of it was faulty. Mine is actually the "C" version, and pretty impressive for what they go for/what I paid for it. A much better amp than the Adcom ... | |
| Acoustical music Most Bluegrass music is all acoustic, and generally better recorded than Rock ta boot. Look for Chris Hillman’s (bass player in The Byrds, but he was in Bluegrass group The Hillmen prior to that) albums on Sugar Hill. For incredible live recording... | |
| Underspent on speakers relative to overall system? I'm with Erik (love the spelling---very Nordic!); as there is no correlation between price and over-all sound quality in speakers, the question cannot be answered. | |
| Question for cable/wire naysayers..... Then there is the issue of not all ears being equal. Just as in all other human endeavors, training and experience matter. As Michael Fremer has reported, when the results of blind tests come in, the very top and bottom performers in a group are "... | |
| Any new turntable brands we should pay attention to ? Great, thanks Terry. I've been in touch with Vic, and it's on! | |
| dynamic classical which isn't boring? It is my opinion that those raised on Rock but now wanting to get into "Classical" (just so you'll know, Classical is actually one era/style of "serious" music, though commonly used as the name for all of it), would do well to start with the Baroq... |