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| 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... | |
| Speaker Output for Subwoofer--Sounds Better Brian Ding gives you the choice of speaker level or line level on his Rythmik subs' plate amps. One advantage of speaker level is the lack of needing another line level output on your pre-amp/integrated amp/receiver. His personal recommendation is... | |
| Another Audiophile obituary His take on reality, which he insisted you share. | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? Elitisim, probably guilty. I prefer quality, no apology offered. Snobbishness? Absolutely not. I love and listen to Hillbilly (I consider Hank Williams a genius) and Classical (J.S. Bach is the father of Western Music). That I consider Danny Gatto... | |
| Another Audiophile obituary Peter was a bit of a self-righteous, smug a-h. Kind of like a recovering alcoholic who now lectures everyone on the evils of drinking. Alvin Gold, being British, really knew his hi-fi. I hope Ken Kessler writes a piece on him. |