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| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Simon's lyrics are of the "pretty poetry" type. Dylan's are profound, if you "get" them. ;-) | |
| Chuck Berry will be 90 next week. And Jerry Lee Lewis, last of the 50's Rock 'n' Roll men left standing. | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Funny! Bob is drinking from a wine bottle, and sounds pretty drunk. He and John, discussing Johnny Cash and Barry McGuire. John sounds a little self conscious, and seems to be trying to appear cool to Bob. | |
| GRASS ANYONE? In my Top 10 All-Time Best Shows is Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band at The House Of Blues in Hollywood in the 90's. Steve on vocals (of course) and acoustic guitar, Del and his boys on harmony vocals, guitar, mandolin, stand-up bass, fiddle, ... | |
| Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature Allen Ginsburg, upon hearing Dylan in 1962, was reduced to tears. He said he knew the torch had been passed from his generation to the next. Dylan single-handedly changed the world, not least of all by transforming John Lennon, who pre-Dylan was m... | |
| Greatest American Rock and Role Bands of ALL Time One of my favorite bands, AC/DC, hires one of the all-time worst "singers". Damnit! | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Last Friday, Jerry Douglas in Portland Oregon. There are two main strains in Bluegrass---Traditional, and Progressive. Jerry as a sideman (Alison Krauss, Iris Dement, Dolly Parton, hundreds of others) is involved in the Traditional wing. As a solo... | |
| Tell Us about an Album That Took a Long Time to Grow on You Workingman's Dead is a classic, no doubt. When I heard it, it too sounded like it was at least in part inspired by the second Band album. The songs, the harmonies, the country feel. The Band and The Dead (as well as Janis Joplin & Big Brother)... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. A real nice tube amp for ESL’s is the Music Reference RM-200 Mk.2, designed and built by Roger Modjeski, an amp maker who is also an ESL speaker expert. Roger currently makes his own ESL’s, and was involved in the design of the legendary Beveridge... | |
| Greatest American Rock and Role Bands of ALL Time I see some names here that also appeared on the "Worst American Rock ’n’ Roll Bands of All Time" list (The White Stripes, Blue Cheer). Love it!oblgny, John Hiatt is one of my favorite active songwriters and singers, and could be included here as a... | |
| What tonearm will better mine? Meaning no disrespect, and acknowledging that other posters may in all likelihood have more experience with various arms than do I, may I humbly suggest that the extreme nature of the Decca/London cartridges is what needs to be taken into consider... | |
| What tonearm will better mine? If you feel like going hard-core Decca/London, the two arms known as great matches with the cartridge is the Fidelity Research 66 and the Zeta. There are not a lot of them around for sale, so you'll need to be patient. One new arm popular with the... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! Yup, the Rock 7 is now in Mk.2 guise. | |
| Cable for my Rythmik F12SE Sub Sorry for the delay in responding ghosthouse, I was away from home on a gig. I was pals with Brooks Berdan (R.I.P.), and we had a nice mutually beneficial arrangement wherein I would provide him with vintage drums at my cost (I was dealing in the ... | |
| Dipole Asymmetry Is he four or five feet tall? ;-) |