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| New In 2025 This one was released in 2024, but I just heard about it. It’s entitled Tonight I’ll Go Down Swingin’: A Tribute To Don Heffington. Unless you are a drummer, that name may mean nothing to you. Actually, even if you are it might not. Don appeare... | |
| Brian Wilson @loomisjohnson: My favorite song on Wow is "Can’t Be So Bad". When I did Evan Johns’ Moontan album I was thinking of that song as we recorded "Dear Doc" (both are fast tempo double shuffles). Evan didn’t like to do more than one take of each so... | |
| Real musicians don't need "awards." I do know that she thinks of herself more as a Jazz musician. So did her sometimes drumming partner in the L.A. studios, Earl Palmer. | |
| Brian Wilson @loomisjohnson: I see what you meant by swing. Yes, the early Beach Boys show an obvious debt to Chuck Berry. I hear it in all their albums through All Summer Long. You don’t hear it in the band’s next two albums, Today! and Summer Days (And S... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Unlike, say, you and/or I, Erik? | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Danny Richie makes a point of stating that crossovers cannot be correctly done in simulated circuits, but only by using them with the intended drivers that are mounted in the intended enclosure, then doing acoustic measurements. Of course the c... | |
| Brian Wilson @loomisjohnson: Here are my responses to a few of your comments regarding Pet Sounds: - ..."it always sounded a little compressed and lacking in low end." Right you are. It is also pretty veiled and congested. It is very much a sonically me... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Now THAT is interesting @westcoastaudiophile. Can you elaborate on crossover component "parasitics? | |
| Any modern rock recommendations? Weezer still sound real good to me. | |
| Battle of the affordables Eminent Technology LFT-8b, $3200/pr. Review by Steve Guttenberg: https://youtu.be/Uc5O5T1UHkE?si=aMk1-K2A4CH_pgfg | |
| Brian Wilson Paul McCartney: "No one is musically educated until they have heard Pet Sounds.It was my inspiration for writing Sgt. Pepper." Elton John: "Pet Sounds is a timeless and amazing record of incredible genius and beauty." | |
| Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records I've been using one of those old fashioned shaving cream brushes to clean my table platters for years. | |
| Great recordings with great harmonies from 1960s Actually @slaw, Richard and Linda didn't start recording as a duo until 1973. Richard left Fairport Convention in '71, and made a solo album in '72. The Band cited The Staples as a vocal harmony influence (that's why they were tagged onto the ... | |
| Exploring the mythical chords of "God Only Knows"..... @tablejockey: I love the Virgin Rock woman, I’ve watched a lot of her videos (though I missed the one you posted a link to. Thanks!). A classically trained musician’s reaction to Pop music can be very interesting. From one of the comments to h... | |
| Best way to dampen a micro-vibrating Printed Circuit Board inside an amp? Thanks! E-A-R Isodamp (available from Michael Percy Audio), fo.Q Damping Tape. |