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| Overshadowed by bandmates What a great topic! Lots of great answers, too. Most of my examples have already been mentioned, the most significant being Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry's pianist. Someone interviewed in the movie Hail, Hail, Rock n' Roll, noted that a lot of Chuc... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Speaking of Bloomfield, another great Band I'm so thankful to have seen live was The Electric Flag, with Bloomfield and the great Buddy Miles in '68. The Flag had four saxes that day---two tenor, a baritone, and a bass. HUGE sound! | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Oops, neglected to point out that on the tracks on which both Robertson and Bloomfield play, you'll notice Robbie is on guitar and Mike is on piano. The info about Mike moving to piano after hearing Robbie start playing guitar came from Mike himse... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Not on "Like a Rolling Stone", you're correct. Two different stories, two different sessions---both happened. Robertson had already been on the Bringing It All Back Home album (the "electric" side, of course), and would be on Blonde on Blonde the ... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... That's a different story Onhwy61---both happened. Look on the album credits for the Blonde on Blonde album also---"Jaime" Robertson (the 1st Band album has him as J.R. Robertson). Robertson had already been on the Bringing It All Back Home album (... | |
| Quad 2905 ESL Arcing Sparks I'll bet when your amp has shut down it was because of the typical ESL brutal impedance/phase angle it presented to the amp. If I was going to get a new pair of ESL's, or amps for a pair, I'd look into the Roger Sanders stuff. His amp is made spec... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... Damn Marty, the more you talk, the more I recognize in you a kindred spirit! You have simply and concisely (how appropriate---read on) differentiated between the two main camps of musician's: Those who play for the song, and those to whom a song's... | |
| Quad 2905 ESL Arcing Sparks Goofyfoot, the voltage clamp is just a simple electronic limiter I believe, allowing only a certain amount of, duh, voltage to pass through it, to prevent the 57's panels from arcing. There is no button etc. to reset after it has engaged, but I di... | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? I wish it were George. The interaction will be with only an un-buffered passive pre's volume control, then. Does that include those with optical attenuators (Lightspeed)? | |
| Is no preamp really better that a good preamp? Yes! Well, it took a design expert, but finally a great answer. Driving the inter-connect cable---what a concept! Maybe another reason why the sound of any given cable is so system-dependent---it's interacting with the volume control in the pre-am... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... The guitar that has taken me a long time to come to like is the Strat. I was too young to catch Buddy Holly, but a lot of the early-60's Surf guitarists played a Strat, and I had all The Ventures and Astronauts albums. Then it kind of disappeared ... | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads Oops! Tostadosunitos, you are absolutely correct about Stuart Duncan being a fiddler, not a guitarist. And yes, Mr. Sutton is an excellent guitarist (and singer), thought it's Bryan :-). | |
| What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's? By the way, the Rockpile line-up was in place to record starting with Dave's Tracks on Wax 4 album and Nick's Labour of Lust (which is MUCH different than his first, definitely showing Dave's influence on Nick), both from '78, IIRC. | |
| Oregon Audiophiles... I'm about to move up to Portlandia from SoCal. Is Positive Feedback, being Portland-based, involved in any local activities? Based on a couple of encounters I've had with David Robinson at Hi-Fi Shows, he doesn't seem to be a real friendly or plea... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... My opinion about the Tele and Blues is just as I stated: "A Telecaster isn't known as a Blues guitar"..."yet in the hands of the right player can be excellent". For playing Blues, a Telecaster is certainly not the first, or second, or even third g... |