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| Paul McGowan gets asked about rotary subs. Thanks @wsrrsw: Thanks, I hadn’t seen that write-up on the TRW-17. @uncledemp: Though "normal" recordings made in studios are limited in very low frequency content, some recordings made in very large "rooms"---cathedrals and churches, large... | |
| The last of the black Rock 'n' Roll pioneers? Title of a Spacemen 3 album: Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Take Drugs To. ;-) I was into Psychedelic music only fairly briefly: from the Summer of ’67 (I saw The Grateful Dead and The Airplane live that Summer) until the Summer of ’69. In th... | |
| Interesting Tiefenbrun interview, 2006 Richard Hardesty was one of the major high-end dealers in Southern California in the 1970’s and 80’s (Havens & Hardesty). I attended the shop’s in-store appearance of Harvey Rosenberg (one of hi-fi’s all-time most colorful and interesting char... | |
| The last of the black Rock 'n' Roll pioneers? Uh, yeah @tylermunns, that’s why I said ".....and take it easy with that very dangerous drug." George Harrison said he and the others tripped only a handful of times, and were fine. Syd Barrett, Skip Spence, Peter Green, and Brian Wilson didn’t, a... | |
| Paul McGowan gets asked about rotary subs. @pryso: Excellent point about the LFT’s avoidance of a crossover through much of the audible range. For those who missed it, the midrange planar-magnetic driver in the LFT-8 reproduces from 180Hz up to 10kHz, with NO crossover! That is a very b... | |
| Women Who Rock ^ And Sheila E, whom I also have not known. Debbie Peterson of The Bangles is a pretty darn good drummer, as was Karen Carpenter. The latter studied with Hal Blaine. | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" I've been listening to Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Ruth Brown, LaVerne Baker, Etta James, Aretha, Solomon Burke, Marvin Gaye, The Platters (who are arguably more Pop than Soul), The Four Tops, The Drifters ("On Broadway"---written by Barry Mann &am... | |
| Help me to build my first stereo system Find a good local hi-fi shop, of the independent, "high-end" variety. Even if you have to travel several hundred miles. Make it an overnight trip. If you provide your approximate location, perhaps those in your vacinity can suggest a dealer or two... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Here’s a tip for those buying used LP’s (or CD’s, for that matter) which have a price sticker attached directly to the album cover, which when removed leaves behind that nasty, sticky glue residue: I years ago discovered at Michael’s Art Supply a... | |
| The last of the black Rock 'n' Roll pioneers? It's interesting how the younger generation is coming to embrace psychedelic music. Are the psych bands dropping acid? ;-) Hope they have learned from history, and take it easy with that VERY dangerous drug. We don't wanna see anymore Syd Barrett'... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon: AND Emitt wrote all the songs on the album, and did the recording in his home studio in Hawthorne, engineering it himself on a 4-trk. machine. When I recorded with Emitt in 1997 (he was producing a single song for a solo artist I was invol... | |
| The last of the black Rock 'n' Roll pioneers? @dabel: L.A. nightlife? You had great local talent right there in San Diego! The Beat Farmers (roadhouse Rock ’n’ Roll), The Paladins (a 3-pc. Blues band, and a good one), The Crawdaddy’s (early-Stones influenced), and a 3-pc. Rockabilly band whos... | |
| What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead? @rooze: Are you familiar with the gear tastes and/or reviews of the late Art Dudley? His hi-fi priorities were first full-bodied tonal color and saturation, followed closely by "forward rhythmic propulsion"---the timing characteristics of hi-fi ge... | |
| The last of the black Rock 'n' Roll pioneers? @dabel: The Continental Drifters were an "underground" super group, the members being Susan Cowsill (of The Cowsills obviously), Vicki Peterson (of The Bangles), Peter Hopsapple (of The dB’s), Mark Walton (of The Dream Syndicate), Gary Eaton (a mi... | |
| Women Who Rock Just a thought: Should men and women athletes compete with each other, or their abilities appraised separately? I know a gal who is an excellent pool player, but that’s not quite a sport. How about weightlifting? Lots of sports benefit from physi... |