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| Favorite rock/pop male voices Off the top of my head, the following come to mind. - Iris DeMent - Emmylou Harris - Tammy Wynette - Lucinda Williams - Lou Ann Barton - Julie Miller - Bonnie Raitt - Darlene Love - Arlene Smith (of The Chantels) - Ruth Brown -... | |
| Record Store Day I was a late comer to Record Store Day, not participating until 2016. This years offerings was my favorite of them all. I bought:the LPs of: - Bobby Charles - Ry Cooder - Elvis Costello - Jackie DeShannon - Hank III - Emmylou Harris -... | |
| Tune of the Day "If You Play With My Mind (You’re Gonna Get Your Hands Dirty)." Written by Cornell Hurd, the performance of the song on Little Art’s Poker Party TV show by the Springfield Missouri band.The Skeletons. If the drummer looks familiar, it’s becaus... | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? - Hank Williams: "No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive." Hillbilly wisdom. - Loretta Lynn: "You ain’t woman enough to take my man." "Don’t come home a-drinkin’ (with lovin’ on your mind)." - Cornell Hurd... | |
| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. Audiogon member @thecarpathian already nominated Idiocracy in this forum’s Movie/Film Suggestions thread, but it is now apropos here as well. | |
| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? Fremer was born in 1947, so he turns 78 some time this year. | |
| Jay's Audio Lab Visits GR Research's Listening Room I guess I'll have to watch the video, but I have found this Jay guy to be very annoying in the videos of his I've watched. As for the sound the system produces, I wouldn't dream of thinking that can be discerned from a video posted on YouTube.... | |
| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? @neonknight: As @lewm just posted, adding moving mass to a tone arm is simple. Do it on the headshell for maximum efficiency. The lead weights for balancing wheels work splendidly, and if you need to add mass to your arm's counterweight to now... | |
| So what series are you WATCHING now? Deadline: White House with Nicole Wallace. Free on MSNBC Monday through Friday, 4:00 Eastern time. If you've seen the movie Game Change you're familiar with Nicole; she was the woman in the movie (portrayed by an actress of course) given the t... | |
| A new book by David Leaf on the Smile saga. And here’s part two of the interview, posted on YouTube today: https://youtu.be/FzKl9nmRr_8?si=WOuE4DB2W0F0CCaW&t=1 | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse I too follow Neil’s method, now doing a pre-cleaning of used records, holding the LP above the sink while gently running a cleaning brush around it after having squirted the surface with a diluted Liquinox solution. I hold the LP above the sink... | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? I’ve seen the Straitjackets live only once, opening for Tom Petty. Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell is a fan, and arranged the gig for them. Straitjackets bassist Pete Curry is an old friend and former bandmate of mine, and he told me Mike... | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? There's a real nice VPI HW-17 for sale right now on USAM, priced at $475.00. The HW-17 weighs a ton, so shipping won't be cheap. | |
| Ever heard Rockpile? Speaking of Little Village, here they are on the Tonight Show: https://youtu.be/vw1SCbpwnwE?si=cyKupoP6owh76E8o | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? I have used a VPI HW-17 for many years. Yes it’s quite noisy, but it works splendidly. If you are looking for a vacuum machine only to remove any cleaning (or rinsing) fluid from your LPs, the Pro-Ject line of vacuum machines may be a better ch... |