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| Greatest rhythm sections Ironically, Black Sabbath gave white musicians a bad name ;-). Terrible. On the other hand, Bonnie Raitt's guys are terrific. The L.A. studio team of Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar (Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor) were as well. Levon H... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! That looks REALLY nice, shadorne. The problem is each cube is $89, so a cube of four costs $356. The 4-cubicle EKET is $50. I bought nine EKET for $450; the comparable Simple Woods cubes would be $3204! That will buy a lot of LP’s. Yep, you're rig... | |
| BEST brand for Classical Recordings? Harmonia Mundi (U.S. and French), for both music and sound. | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! The maximum load capability of a shelf is partially determined by what constitutes a shelf. The EKET 4-cube model (the largest EKET) has only two approximately 13" cubicles per shelf wide. The Kallax in available in many different configurations, ... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers goofyfoot, Keltner may sometimes appear merely "solid" (as in The Traveling Wilburys), but is much more than that. Ry Cooder arranges his recordings around Jim’s availability, and will not record without him. Listen to his work with Ry and Bill Fr... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Yes, yes, yes---David Kemper is fantastic!! He's on T Bone Burnett's Truth Decay album, and has played with Dylan as well. He creates a deep, deep pocket and groove. Another great drummer from Tulsa Oklahoma (Jim Keltner is as well), btw, a town t... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe’s favorite Rock ’n’ Roll drummer is Terry Williams (Rockpile, Carlene Carter, Dire Straits). Tom Ardolino of NRBQ was an unusually creative drummer (recently deceased), but not one whom anyone merely looking for technica... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers John Bonham's part in "Rock and Roll" is a direct cop of Earl Palmer's in Little Richard's "Keep-A-Knockin'". A comparison of the two will display why Bonham sounds so flat-footed, so leaden, to me. Earl's part absolutely bristles with kinetic ene... | |
| Acoustical music OMG slaw, Mary Gauthier is fantastic! My favorite discovery of the past few years. | |
| What are you listening to right now? Love "Sundown", slaw (that Lucinda album, too. She’s back, baby!). Gordon’s recording of "Me and Bobby McGee" is my favorite, and ARC’s Bill Johnson loved it’s sound quality when it was played for him by at-the-time retailer (now head of Last Reco... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers All great comments. As always, taste is personal. For instance, I love Bonham's snare sound (a 6.5" deep metal Ludwig shell), but hate Chad's (that high-pitched wood piccolo sound).What constitutes over-playing is a matter of opinion. The tale I h... | |
| Why do better MC cartridges cost a fortune? Though a side issue raised by willemj, it requires a response. Willem, you are entitled to your opinion regarding CD players vs. turntables, but you are ignoring one kind of important fact: an LP won't fit into a CD player's disc tray. I have a lo... | |
| Philips Vinyl: Dutch vs Italian Pressing Also, Italy does not observe copyright laws, and the country's record companies don’t pay royalties to recording artists. That alone should stop one from supporting those companies. | |
| Question for cable/wire naysayers..... czarivey, no one said Doug Sax rewired his studio with NordOst, Alpha Core, Siltech, Audioquest, or any other specific brand, audiophile-approved or otherwise. I certainly didn’t say it, and that’s because I had no idea what wired he installed. Wh... | |
| What's your greatest purchase... My first Ludwig brass snare drum from the late 1920's, for $300. I ended up selling it to Art Laboriel Jr. (look him up ;-).Oh, you mean hi-fi? Quad ESL's, Townshend Elite Rock turntable in the early 1990's, for $650. Rega RB300 direct from Englan... |