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| 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... | |
| Poorly Recorded - Chris Thile & Michael Daves Dusty---I feel the same way about a recording engineer I worked with for a while. He was big on mic’ing a drumset with only two mics---a stereo one overhead, and one on the front of the kick. Without a mic on each drum, they were lacking in presen... | |
| Which components are "stupid good"? Speaking of the Linkwitz speaker, there is a related product that is uniquely good---the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Subwoofer. The bass in the Linkwitz is produced by a similar design---two 12" woofers facing in opposite directions and wired in... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! You’re so right Marty---Yoko is as bad as it gets. Lennon really made a fool of himself by championing her. A couple of guys I find particularly distasteful are Michael McDonald and Steve Perry, though the Bands they were in (The Doobie Brothers a... | |
| Should I build plinths or screw spikes into cabinet? The Townshend Seismic Pods or Bars suggested by infection are great, but not cheap. For as little as $75 for a pair of speakers you can try roller bearings. |