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| New In 2023 Already in the racks is a new album (on LP and CD) from The Long Ryders, produced by Ed Stasium.(The Ramones, Marshall Crenshaw, The Smithereens). The Ryders are now down to a trio, bassist Tom Stevens having died back in 2021. At the time of thei... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? Excellent comments, all. Pearson did indeed go much further than Holt in describing the purely "sound effects" contained in recordings (including the infamous sound of subway trains running under the streets in recordings made in NYC, for instanc... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s informative to compare the writing styles of JGH and HP. The former’s reviews were very to-the-point, the latter’s verrryyy long, and rather "flowery". One might even characterize them as turgid (I do). When reading them I couldn’t help but t... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? Oh yeah Mike, your book is already in my Amazon cart. ;-) Before I visited Walt’s Livermore shop, I went up to Berkeley to investigate a newly-opened storefront. I can’t remember what he called his place, but it was the 1-man operation of David F... | |
| Solo sucess John Hiatt. Before solo he was in a group named White Duck. Two albums on Uni Records, I believe---I have the first. You don’t need it. ;-) NIck Lowe was in The Brinsley Schwarz Band, Dave Edmunds in Love Sculpture. Both more successful and imo f... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? My introduction into high end gear was hearing my first electrostatic transducer: the RTR tweeters employed in the ESS TranStatic I Loudspeaker (of which I now own a pair). I then in 1971 heard the Infinity Servo-Static I, and saw (but not heard) ... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? JGH brought in a couple of other good reviewers to Stereophile: Dick Olsher and Steven Stone, both now at TAS (occasionally). The current TAS has a coupla reviewers I like: Robert E. Greene and Paul Seydor. The rest of them are merely professional... | |
| New In 2023 @jafani: If you don't already have it, the 1971 s/t Crazy Horse album (Reprise RS 6438) is fantastic! Danny Whitten was still alive and in the band, as was pianist Jack Nitzsche. Nils Lofgren plays guitar and sings lead on one song, and Ry Cooder ... | |
| New In 2023 @jafant: A new one from Marty Stuart & his band! I hadn't heard. By the way, Neil's 1977 band The Ducks included Bob Mosley of Moby Grape on bass, and drummer Johnny Craviotto, who later started making drums that are now considered the best i... | |
| FAVORITE POWER CABLE under $100 (1M) Whatever you decide to get, buy used! | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? One thing Holt and Pearson shared was coming to disapprove of the direction their creations took after each lost control of them, both leaving in disgust. Art Dudley was for a time Pearson's right-hand man at TAS, and in his Stereophile reviews s... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time For anyone who wants to hear current Country music that will appeal to his or her Rock ears, try Larry Campbell and his wife and musical partner Teresa Williams. Larry was in Dylan’s road band for eight or nine years, then lead the band at the Mi... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? High End critique was started by J. Gordon Holt, not Harry Pearson. And it was in the early-60's, a full decade before Pearson imitated Holt. | |
| Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align Richard & Linda Thompson: "Shoot Out The Lights", but the whole album of the same title is fantastic. Daivid Lindley: "Mercury Blues", but the whole El Rayo-X album is fantastic. Gordon Lightfoot: "Me And Bobby McGee". The Beach Boys: "Don’... | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus My loudest show as an audience member was The Ramones at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, a cement bunker of a room. Second was Ray Davies Telecaster when The Kinks played The Fillmore Auditorium (or was it Winterland?) in 1971. SO piercing! B... |