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| Garage Band Hangover I've been thinking about the why, Tostadosunidos. Janis strikes me as trying pretty hard to sound "bluesy", to sound Black, ya know? And the fact that it doesn't come naturally seems evident. Her voice sounds a little "pinched" to me, and kinda sh... | |
| Garage Band Hangover I do realize my opinion of Janis is a minority one. Same with Hendrix. That's okay, they get a lot of love from others. A singers voice is so personal, so intimate, isn't it? And so revealing of who he or she is, I sometimes feel like a voyeur whi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I too love the CD, Rok2id. Can you imagine having to suffer through listening to a long piece spread over multiple 78's?! When I was young and still living with the parents, I would fall asleep every night with Koss Pro-4AA phones on my head, waki... | |
| Anyone Compared ARC Ref 75SE and 75 With KT150 Oregonpapa---100 degrees? I miss those mild L.A. Summers ;-). I'm out in Palm Desert now, and we regularly get up to 115-117. My monthly electrical bill (which includes the operation of the house's air conditioner) this Summer has been $500! I sol... | |
| Garage Band Hangover The undisputed expert on Garage Bands was Greg Shaw (R.I.P.), of Bomp Records and Magazine fame. He was waaay into Garage, and in the 80's started a club (which he named The Garage!) in L.A. to put on shows featuring nothing but. At the time of hi... | |
| Garage Band Hangover Growing up in Cupertino (now home to Apple and ebay, in the 60's just a bedroom-community suburb of San Jose), I saw a LOT of Garage Bands. The stars of our scene (The Chocolate Watchband, The Syndicate of Sound, Stained Glass---originally The Tro... | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Kijanki is very right---a hard clipping amp is dangerous to the health of your tweeters. I had a low-powered SS amp burn out a dome tweeter in the blink of an eye when it clipped, and the volume was pretty low. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Born in Indonesia=not so much love of Bach? I can in no way relate to Asian music (it's scales sounding "foreign" to me is definitely a result of cultural, if not societal, conditioning), but the guys at Sony sure like Beethoven! Being able to fit... | |
| Anyone heard the E.A.R. "Acute"? Arsh---No, Mullards are no longer being produced (if they are, new ones are not the ones Tim was speaking of. He was very dismissive of current-production tubes in general), I don't believe. You have to get them from a vintage tube dealer if you w... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Of course J.S.'s music was greatly influenced by his family environment, academic education, and faith, but are those considered "social conditions"? That's a rather broad definition---might as well say it springs from being alive! It also minimiz... | |
| Overshadowed by bandmates I attended the tribute show for Gram Parsons at The Universal Amphitheater in 2004. Unbelievably, Chris Hillman was not there (though Emmylou was), but Keith closed the show. He also performed "Love Hurts", a song associated with Gram though his v... | |
| Anyone heard the E.A.R. "Acute"? I talked to Tim at the recent T.H.E. Show, and he told me Mullard's are his favorite tubes. | |
| Jazz for aficionados While not wishing to be contrary, "all great music springs from social conditions" must be challenged! Bach's, for one, didn't. It sprung from his genius, and deep religious faith, neither of which do I consider a social condition. | |
| Running subwoofer off Dodd preamp Danny Richie and Gary Dodd go way back together, and were actually in the planning stages of a new company together. Danny knows all about the Dodd products, having both a Dodd pre and a pair of big mono amps Gary custom made for him. If you ever ... | |
| Songs that trigger you to switch the station or... It's not Steve Perry's voice per se, it's that he sings in a "Rock Star" manner, if you know what I mean. Like the way Steven Tyler dresses, it's corny and embarrassing. |