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| Should I build plinths or screw spikes into cabinet? A DIY version of the Seismic Bars could be a pair of Baltic Birch plywood shelves separated by a very slightly inflated bicycle tire in between them. With a trio of roller bearings between the speaker and top shelf you will have excellent isolatio... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! Yup Marty, I do buy your point. Mozart is the master of the piano concerto and sonata. I actually prefer harpsichord to piano though, and am very grateful for the "authenticity" movement that brought back the instrument. Such sophistication and di... | |
| The Beach Boys fjn04---Sunflower is my favorite Beach Boys album these days. I can’t tell you how eagerly anticipated it was at the time of it’s release (1970), their first after moving from Capitol Records (who were STILL promoting them as "The No. 1 Surf Group... | |
| The Beach Boys Well said, everyone!Tostadosunidos: "Kokomo"---What a piece of junk! Mike claims he was as responsible for the Beach Boys 60’s hits as was Brian. "Kokomo" is what Mike sounds like without Brian. When hearing Mike’s voice in a Beach Boys song, I of... | |
| I want to introduce my nephew to hi end with your help! Well, czarivey, THAT should certainly elicit some responses. | |
| The Beach Boys A significant percentage of history’s greatest composers, musicians, writers, and painters had severe mental and/or emotional problems, as well as drink and drug problems. Some of them created in spite of it, some because of it. That’s not my opin... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! Marty, Johann’s day job was as a church organist, and it was his main axe ;-). He wrote a LOT of music for organ---it gave him something to play! Wasn’t the fortepiano (the predecessor of the piano) already around in J.S.’s time? I absolutely (no ... | |
| The Beach Boys Right, the Pet Sounds recordings aren't as lo-fi as Smile/Smiley Smile and Wild Honey. They are really bad, Pet Sounds is just mediocre! | |
| The Beach Boys Brian is one of the Rock n' Roll acid casualties of the 60's, some others having died fairly recently---Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and Skip Spence of Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape. The effect LSD had on Brian can not be overstated; I would in f... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! What makes for a great guitarist, or great musician on any instrument?First and foremost, it’s musicality. In Pop (in the large sense of the term) music, I put the song (it’s chords, their "progression", the melody, harmony, counter-point, arrange... | |
| The Beach Boys By the way, Brian in no way considers himself the equal of major Classical composers, though he has been called by some a genius. During the recording of Smile, he would float in his pool in the night, to relax between takes (he had a pro-quality ... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! No doubt about it, Neil Schon is a skilled guitarist, just not one I myself consider great. But then I feel the same about Hendrix, surely even more questionable an opinion! Great for me includes considerations of taste and style, not merely skill... | |
| Use 4 or 8 Ohm output tab for norminal 6 Ohm speaker? I believe the lower the tap, the lower the output impedance and distortion, always a good thing. | |
| 2016: a new year for music.... I love anyone and everyone who loves Lucinda. Now if you would only get into Iris Dement! I'll bet they love each other. | |
| The Beach Boys First, a correction: Pet Sounds was McCartney’s inspiration for not Rubber Soul, but Sgt. Pepper. I get them confused because Rubber Soul was Brian’s inspiration for Pet Sounds, Brian feeling RS was the first album ever with no filler.To put thing... |