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| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Back atcha, brother. I saw The Dead in ’67 (in the Panhandle at Golden Gate Park), with Ron (Pigpen) singing. I liked that first album a lot, and the next few that followed. But when they started trying to sing harmonies (that had became all the r... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system What? The LFT-8b’s aren’t perfect?! I like my Quads (original 57's) and Magneplanar Tympani-IV's more than the LFT's in some ways, but that's not the point of the post. | |
| Subwoofer for classical music listener If one's sub can be integrated using a mere 1st order high-pass filter (6dB/octave), there is a simple, easy, transparent way to accomplish that. Just solder a capacitor of the correct value (the formula for determining that value can be found on ... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Ha! Hyperbole on my part Lew, obviously. But close to it (let's say 120dB @ 1Hz ;-), the Rotary Woofer not being constrained by physical excursion like mechanical transducers. A really fascinating, revolutionary, visionary creation from the mind o... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Coincidently, I just read a quote from Jazz musician Ornette Coleman. After jamming with The Dead in the early 90’s, he said to their manager "Man, those guys don’t listen to each other when they play". Looks like I'm not the only snobbish elitist... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Understandable boxer. I played in my first all-original-material-band in ’71, and could not get the other guys to listen to my recent (’66-’71) Beach Boys albums. The image of them at that time was of their early, surf style music. There is actual... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Ignorance is not necessarily an insult---it's an adjective. In your case boxer, an apt one. Brian Wilson was long gone from The Beach Boys by the time of Kokomo, having left for a solo career years before. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Oh man, I love Planet Waves, one of my favorite Dylans. Live in the studio, with very little electronic effects (reverb in particular---the recording is very "dry"). After the album was done in early '74, they hit road for a two-month tour, their ... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Wow. Musical taste is one thing, ignorance another. Ask any songwriter about Brian Wilson---start with Paul McCartney. Ask any producer---start with George Martin. Absolutely, and by a large margin, the best of his generation. Jerry Garcia himself... | |
| Best Debut Albums A big second to has2be's The Who's My Generation nomination. Another hugely influential (amongst musicians) debut album was The Yardbirds For Your Love. Guitar playing by both Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers s/t debut... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Richard Thompson is okay, but he's no Jerry Garcia ;-). Love Richard, seen him a few times, have all his albums, as well as all the Fairport Convention ones. | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Without question, pigdog! Damn, now Garcia's not just good, or even great, but a genius? Guess we'll have to come up with a new term for J.S. Bach, Brian Wilson, and Hank Williams. If Garcia was a genius, what were they? I say were in regard to BW... | |
| Some of my favorite songs are...... Mighty fine list, Marty. I just don’t have the energy right now to do my own. I'm exhausted from listening to Grateful Dead albums ;-). | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Hey Geoff, as a ceiling is no more free from seismic vibration than is a wooden floor, what about this?: Build a structure that sits on the floor (like the frame of a children's swing set, except with two parallel top rods or beams), from which a ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I LOVE Self Portrait! I did when it was released, amused (and not surprised) that the Rolling Stone-type reviewers didn't get it. I was surprised by Dylan's literalness in the album title, literalness not something he's prone to. I find it to prov... |